{"id":421686,"date":"2026-01-21T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421686\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:56:06","slug":"fees-increased-at-watertowns-thompson-park-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421686\/","title":{"rendered":"Fees increased at Watertown\u2019s Thompson Park Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; It\u2019ll cost more to tee up at the Thompson Park Golf Course come spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, Watertown City Council approved the fee changes for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Season passes have increased by $25 to $50 depending on the pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For example, a city resident over the age of 22 will pay $825 for a season pass, up from $800 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Non-city residents over 22 will go from $875 to $900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Greens fees will go up $2 to $3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Council Members Ben Shoen and Doug Osborne voted against increasing the fees, with Osborne arguing it \u201csends a bad message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it just comes across as more exclusive than a municipal course, where it\u2019s open to the general public. I\u2019d like to see volume of people come in and play. I just think this will end up hindering that at the end of the day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The golf course lost around $120,000 this past season, which was not as much as the previous two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; It\u2019ll cost more to tee up at the Thompson Park Golf Course come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[80021,201295,427,99,140066],"class_list":["post-421686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-fees","tag-going-up","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-thompson-park-golf-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421686","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=421686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}