"Nobody wishes Lee had signed that paper more than us," said Patrick Jeffers, one of the people behind Pecan Grove Golf Partners, the group recommended last week to run the course. ![]() The unceremonious disqualification - Kinser said she was notified via text message that her bid was rejected because of the error - has turned conversations about the pitch and putt toward a familiar refrain, the loss of another piece of so-called old Austin. On Thursday, the Austin City Council will consider awarding the operations contract to a different group after Kinser's bid was disqualified because she failed to sign a required document. This could be the last year the Kinsers run the course. "It's more than a business," said Kinser, whose family has run the course for the past 70 years. Hundreds of names line the walls, one entry for each hole-in-one logged at the beloved course nestled just east of Lamar Boulevard between Riverside Drive and Barton Springs Road. If these clubhouse walls could talk, they would shout the names of local golf aces. ![]() Above that hung a photo of her uncle-in-law John Douglas Kinser, the man who designed the compact nine-hole course in the 1940s and was murdered there amid sordid speculation about his involvement in a possible love triangle. Lee Kinser stood behind the counter inside the small clubhouse at Butler Park Pitch & Putt, her red poodle Teddy lying on the floor Monday morning beneath a buzzing, neon Dos Equis sign.īehind Kinser was an autographed picture of Ben Crenshaw, the two-time Masters champion who once called the pitch and putt one of his favorite spots in Austin.
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