The driving range at Mosholu Golf Course has re-opened after being shut down for most of the summer because of safety and liability issues.
Earlier this summer, First Tee, the youth golf organization that runs the public golf course for the city Parks Department, decided to shut the driving range down because balls were being hit into the Croton Water Filtration Plant construction site, which borders the range.
This came after the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which is managing the filtration plant project, promised to keep the range open during construction.
Local park activists were incensed. "It seems to me if they can protect our water supply from terrorists, they can protect our heads from golf balls," said Jane Sokolow, a board member of the Friends at Van Cortlandt Park.
First Tee Director Barry McLaughlin told the Norwood News in early July that he was looking to remedy the situation.
"If we can come up with a resolution, we will do it," McLaughlin said.
On Aug. 8, McLaughlin sent out an e-mail announcing that the driving range would re-open on Aug. 11, saying First Tee would be employing the use of a "limited flight ball" to "allow for safe use of the range by all."
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