{"id":869223,"date":"2026-10-03T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869223\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:20:13","slug":"crooked-creek-golf-course-busy-friday-after-wet-weather-sidelines-lincoln-golfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869223\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Creek Golf Course busy Friday after wet weather sidelines Lincoln golfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) \u2014 After a rainy Thursday kept golfers off courses across the Lincoln area, Crooked Creek Golf Club was packed Friday and booked through at least the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">General Manager and Director of Golf Operations Jared Keenan said the course doesn\u2019t need any more rain for the next week and needs a few days to dry out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keenan, who has worked at Crooked Creek for more than a decade, said what sets the course apart is its continuous cart path all the way around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOn days like today where the city of Lincoln courses aren\u2019t allowing carts, we get a lot of traffic out here because we have a continuous cart path all the way around the golf course,\u201d Keenan said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Players tee off on the driving range at Crooked Creek Golf Club in Lincoln on Friday, Oct. 2,...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NGWIPKZODJFKHP6XZSZW5FHF4I.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Players tee off on the driving range at Crooked Creek Golf Club in Lincoln on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026(10\/11 News \/ Darsha Dodge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Among the dozens booked Friday was Tyler Lauer, who was out with a group from PGA HOPE, an organization that supports local combat veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt is amazing out today. It\u2019s a little wet, but we\u2019ll take the wetness on the course with the nice bright sun out,\u201d Lauer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With nice weather in the forecast for the next week or more, Keenan said the course is expected to stay busy even as the ground continues to dry out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crooked Creek has a number of events coming up, including a two-man scramble at the end of October. You can find a link to their events <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedcreekgolfclub.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.crookedcreekgolfclub.com\/\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) \u2014 After a rainy Thursday kept golfers off courses across the Lincoln area, Crooked Creek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[366454,427,92494,366455,366458,366457,99,366456],"class_list":["post-869223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-crooked-creek-golf-club","tag-golf","tag-historic-rainfall","tag-jared-keenan","tag-lincoln-weather","tag-pga-hope","tag-sports","tag-tyler-lauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869223","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=869223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}