Danny,

The only "dug" bullet from Ridgeway CC I can identify is the .54 minie ball. I still have it. I thought I had the .44 cal pistol bullet, but I can't seem to find it. The rest are "Gone With The Wind".

Thanks for the compliments on the course. My Dad was there from 67-78 and presided over the move from the old course at Poplar and I-240 where the Hilton is now to the location at Poplar and Houston Levee. There were several old structures on the site. One, a four room clapboard house with front porch was definitely ante-bellum. We couldn't knock it over with a D-9 Cat Bulldozer. The floor structure was made of tree trunks, at least a couple of feet in diameter that were almost petrified. Ultimately, the golf course architect hired an old African-American couple in their 70's. They cut up the house with a cross-cut saw. Tough old folks, they were!

Their is also an ante-bellum house directly across Poplar (south of the RR tracks) from the entrance to the golf course. My parents looked at it once as a "fixer upper", yeah right. The owner who lived just East and next door, offered to lease the house, we could do all the improvements, but he wouldn't sell. Now that sounds like a "Brooklyn Bridge" deal. Needless to say, we ended up somewhere else.

I know what you mean about "digging up" the golf course. Not only was Ridgeway a beautiful course, but with the fairways narrow, the greens double-cut and the rough high, it was a "Monster". We held a U.S. Open Qualifying Regional there once and only one competitor broke par over two days.

Jim