This could be the last round for Clapp Golf Course.
The city Park Board has called a special meeting Friday to vote on a proposal to close down the little course at the corner of Harry and Oliver in south Wichita.
A staff recommendation calls for the course to be shut down as soon as possible, with a goal of selling part of the land for commercial/housing development. Some other park use could go on the remainder of the land, which is in an unbuildable flood plain. Clapp would be the second public course to close in the last four years. In late 2014, Wichita State University razed its Braeburn Golf Course to clear space for development of the Innovation Campus, a mix of educational and business ventures at the east end of the university.
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