{"id":671851,"date":"2026-05-29T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:33:19","slug":"upgrades-to-putnams-morefar-golf-club-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671851\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrades to Putnam\u2019s Morefar Golf Club in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHEAST \u2013 Putnam County\u2019s Morefar Back O\u2019Beyond Golf Club has been described as one of the \u201cTwelve Insanely Private Golf Clubs You Will Never get to Play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 345-acre club on the Southeast-Danbury border is being reshaped, reseeded, and resodded.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast officials are reviewing plans for a new clubhouse, four new bedroom units, a meeting venue, general manager\u2019s house, an activity barn, a fitness and wellness center along with the redevelopment of the existing 18-hole course which is the largest undertaking the 60-year old club has taken at one time making its grounds more user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials in Danbury have approved the construction of a driving range, new greens, a 3,600 square foot golf cart barn and a 1,400 square foot range hut on the Connecticut portion of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Golfers said the improvements and renovations are long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Dorsch noted, \u201cMorefar has been stuck in the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHEAST \u2013 Putnam County\u2019s Morefar Back O\u2019Beyond Golf Club has been described as one of the \u201cTwelve Insanely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-671851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671851","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=671851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}