From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 1, 1989:

By a 3-2 vote, the Lawrence City Commission this week decided against a proposal from Denver-based First Golf Corp. to build an 18-hole municipal golf course near Clinton Lake. By the same margin, commissioners then voted to oppose any plans to build a municipal golf course at this time. Mayor Bob Schumm and Commissioner Mike Rundle voted in favor of the golf course plans, while Commissioners Shirley Martin-Smith, David Penny, and Bob Walters voted against them, with Penny suggesting supporters organize a referendum. “We did it with library bonds, the swimming pool, the Holcom Park complex,” Penny said. “If there’s that much support in the community, we should build one.” Penny’s recommendation was not favorably received by Stan Harris, the organizer of the Lawrence Municipal Golf Course Committee, which had been working for two years to convince the city to build a course. “We’re going to stay away from the city; we’re going to the county,” Harris said after the vote. First Golf had proposed a $2.9 million lease-purchase package that would have paid for design, construction, and equipment for an 18-hold course on land controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Clinton Lake.