Who killed this 100-year-old golf course tree? A $2,000 reward for answers
A vandal chopped down a towering fir at Cokato Town & Country Club in Minnesota.
Cokato Town & Country Club is about an hour west of Minneapolis. Cokato Town & Country Club Tree removal is all the rage in golf these days. It opens up turf to air and sunlight , restores classic sightlines and gives courses a cleaner look.
But there’s a right way to do it. And then there’s what happened at Cokato Town & Country Club. Sometime in the wee hours of Thursday morning, a vandal (or was it vandals?
) trespassed onto the modest nine-hole course in Cokato, Minn. — about an hour west of Minneapolis — and chopped down a 70-foot Douglas fir believed to be nearly 100 years old. The tree had stood in a strategic position at the bend of the par-4 7th hole, a dogleg right.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a silver-and-white pickup truck near the course around 2 a. m. , and someone making their way across the darkened grounds toward the 7th hole.