{"id":368749,"date":"2025-12-25T04:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368749\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:19:05","slug":"warm-weather-brings-golfers-back-as-wnc-courses-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368749\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm weather brings golfers back as WNC courses reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC \u2014 Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve out on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>Golfers like Don Segal said the conditions made it impossible to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t pass a day like this up, and it\u2019s great that the course is open and it\u2019s busy and it\u2019s just great to be out here,\u201d Segal said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/black-mountain-golf-course-reopens-hurricane-helene-recovery-back-nine-fema-funds-full-restoration-asheville-municipal-golf-course-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BLACK MOUNTAIN GOLF COURSE REOPENS, AWAITS FEMA FUNDS FOR FULL RESTORATION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Black Mountain Golf Course, Segal is one of many golfers who are returning after months of closures caused by storm damage during Helene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackmountaingolf.org\/#blackmountaingolfcourse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Course officials<\/a> say Helene damaged cart paths, bridges, and the irrigation system. While repairs are ongoing, the back nine holes have reopened, allowing players to return.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEC. 24, 2025 - Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve out on the golf course. (Photo: WLOS Staff)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/334edefc-a4ef-4346-847b-91feda36fc22-6PMBLACKMOUNTAINGOLFLLVSV.mxfframe1464.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DEC. 24, 2025 &#8211; Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve out on the golf course. (Photo: WLOS Staff)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to go down the mountain to play golf for quite a season and play some nice courses, but there\u2019s no place like your home course,\u201d said golfer Mike Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the game itself, golfers said the weather was the highlight of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 65, it\u2019s Christmas Eve, I\u2019m with my buddies, this is the best day ever,\u201d said golfer Brandon Hawkins.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DEC. 24, 2025 - Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve out on the golf course. (Photo: WLOS Staff)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7de26ecf-8bd3-4e59-a078-e5691199d3b9-6PMBLACKMOUNTAINGOLFSOTVOTZ.mxfframe1601.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DEC. 24, 2025 &#8211; Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve out on the golf course. (Photo: WLOS Staff)<\/p>\n<p>Players at the Springdale course in Canton also took advantage of the warm holiday weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we were hoping for a white Christmas, but if we can\u2019t have a white Christmas, then we\u2019ll go out golfing,\u201d said golfer Andrew Beachum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/north-carolina-professional-golfers-association-biltmore-championship-asheville-fedexcup-community-wnc-governor-josh-stein-cliffs-walnut-cove-jack-nicklaus-general-assembly-pga-tour-tourism-development-authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NORTH CAROLINA AWARDS $3.17M GRANT TO SUPPORT PGA TOUR&#8217;S RETURN TO WNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in Black Mountain, players are already looking ahead to the full reopening of the course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited, we\u2019d come in every time we play and go \u2018how long, how long\u2019 and so now they\u2019re at least saying hopefully by spring, so there\u2019s a lot of spring hope in us for it opening back up,\u201d Stewart said.Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Course leaders say repairs on the remaining front nine holes are expected to begin in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC \u2014 Warm temperatures across western North Carolina prompted many people to spend their Christmas Eve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-368749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}