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Owasso Public Golf Authority hears 2025 golf report as rounds near 38,000
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Summary
At an Owasso Public Golf Authority meeting, the presenter (identified as Alexa Beamer) reported that 2025 brought extreme weather, course repairs, and about 38,000 rounds played; revenue rose after a January 2025 price increase while memberships and tournament bookings remain full.
The Owasso Public Golf Authority heard an operations report during its meeting, where the presenter identified in the meeting as Alexa Beamer summarized 2025 course conditions and business results.
Beamer said 2025 brought “everything from dust storms to Friday when the wind was blowing up to 75 miles an hour,” plus a tornado and what she described as “the wettest April in Oklahoma history,” with “close to 13 inches” of rain in parts of northern Tulsa County. She told the board the golf course itself suffered only limited damage but the clubhouse entrance and a gazebo needed repairs.
On turf management, Beamer described routine winter tarping for Bermuda greens and said the course is using new native flower beds and fescue plantings to reduce irrigation in some areas. “Mostly native grasses, fescues, prairie grass…that don’t require additional water,” she said.
Beamer said rounds played were high in 2025. “Last year in 2025, we did 38,000,” she said, and added that the figure was boosted partly by rain and by the reopening of a course in Bartlesville. She also told the board that revenue rose after a price increase instituted in January 2025: “Our revenue went up, due to our price increase that we instituted last January.” The presenter said memberships are full, with “90 plus people on the waiting list,” and tournament bookings are essentially full for the upcoming year.
Board members questioned the presenter about the price change and course capacity. The chair asked to display a graph and noted he recalled the recent price increase; the presenter said there had been “none whatsoever” in pushback and that comparable public courses in the area had moved rates closer to Owasso’s. When asked what number of annual rounds was sustainable, the presenter said the course aims for roughly 36,000–37,000 rounds to maintain quality.
Other routine business: the OPGA manager reported no items; the OPGA attorney had no report in this segment; official documents were acknowledged as received. With no new business, a trustee moved to adjourn and the meeting concluded.
The board did not take any formal policy votes beyond standard consent-agenda approval and adjournment; the presenter indicated staff may return to the board about pricing changes at a future meeting.
