New owner of Rocky Knoll Country Club was 'just driving by'
How easy is it to become the owner of a 156-acre, 18-hole golf course — complete with all of the accouterments including a clubhouse, golf carts, food service equipment, equipment for upkeep of the grounds and a golf simulator? For one woman in Orrington, it took around two hours and $350,001.
“I think I just stepped into it. I was just driving by and saw the auction sign,” Rocky Knoll Country Club’s new owner, Erlene Morgan, told a crowd of long-time patrons of the Knoll after the sale of the country club during a foreclosure auction on Tuesday.
The idea that the new owner of the Knoll was not in fact a fellow golfer rubbed some of the attendees the wrong way, according to the Bangor Daily News.
“I do not golf,” Morgan told one attendee, according to the BDN. “It’s too hard on the body.”
Grumbling came from the large group of attendees at the foreclosure auction — many of which were attending to find out not only the future of their beloved course, but also if the roughly 40 paid memberships would be honored, the BDN reported.
When pressed as to what the future might be for the course and property, which was built in 2009 and last appraised at a value $629,000, Morgan said she was tentatively looking at keeping the property open.
Orrington Town Manager Paul White told the BDN that Morgan, a self-described “self-made businesswoman,” owns a number of apartment buildings in the area.
“She’s bought property in Orrington and resells it,” White said. “She’s into that quite a bit. I would not be surprised if she was looking to develop something, but I do not know.”
On Tuesday night, the Facebook page for the country club posted an update saying that Morgan and her partner, Hollie Arsenault, would be keeping the course open.
One thing is for sure though, Morgan got one heck of a deal.
“She got a good deal — about half price,” said Dan Grover, a former owner of the course. “I’m sad to see it go. With my health the way it is, it’s hard to be active keeping it going.”
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