Personal remembrances of these local courses, include watching an LPGA tour event and following the best players of that era from that tour on one of those closed courses. At another of the courses, the final round, of the former six-round PGA tour qualifier was contested there. I remember standing and listening on the eighteenth-hole, as a veteran player and his caddy discussed club selection into the challenging green. He was on the bubble in the event, if he didn’t execute that shot properly in that moment, he would possibly not qualify for the following year, and considering his age, his career as a tour player would probably be over. On another of the courses, played frequently by this writer, I had an all-time front-nine ringer score, (best score lifetime on each hole) of 22, fourteen-under-par. Eagles on both par fives, eagles on two par fours, and a hole-in-one on a par three and birdies on all the other par fours and threes.  Of course my reverse ringer score was probably eighteen-over par, because for sure, I had double on every one of those holes as well, at one time. It was that kind of course, extremely challenging, but even the hacks could get lucky sometimes. One of the many things that made that course great, but alas, no more.