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We Celebrated
Our 25th Anniversary in 2003
(1978 - 2003)
In 1917, a small group of wealthy
"regulars" selected a wooded, hilly farm site
with frontage on Eagle and Voyager Lakes to establish the
Eagle Waters Golf Club. A nine hole golf course and
clubhouse were built.
The
private club
was open only to the elite group of cottage
owners and their guests in the nearby Everett Colony,
located on Catfish and Cranberry Lakes. A frequent
visitor of the 1950s was President Dwight Eiserhower and
his brother Milton. Other notables playing the course
included golfers Walter Hagen and Ollie Meyers. Actresses
Joan Crawford, Janet Gaynor and a youthful Elizabeth
Taylor also graced the greens.
Mayor
Kelly of Chicago and his bodyguard also golfed at the club.
A local, Emerson Farrell, remembers his days as a caddy
for them. "We'd be out on number 3 when the Mayor
was teeing off, and Captain Berry (the bodyguard) would
hand me his gun and I'd blast the ball from the tee. They
always got a kick out of that!"
On
some days, as
many as 100 caddies served the club and its members. Even
during the Great Depression, it was not unusual to find
Rolls Royces, Fleetwoods and Cords outside the clubhouse.
Bets of $1,000 per hole were not uncommon.
Jim
Mason purchased Eagle Waters Golf Club in 1963 and in 1978 he went on to
build the first four units of Lake Forest Resort and
Club, the first successful timeshare resort in Wisconsin.
The remaining 20 condos and the Resort Center were
developed from 1979 - 1982 by the Neuser family. No
further development of the resort property is planned.
In
1981, Lake Forest Resort and Club was incorporated as a
not-for-profit corporation. The resort is collectively
owned by approximately 675 owner families, who elect a
Board of Directors to govern, who in turn have an on-site
manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the
resort.
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