Family celebrates 40 years of teeing it up at Haystack

NIWOT – On July 2, 1966, Haystack Mountain Golf Course opened for play. That day about 50 golfers paid $1 each to play the nine-hole course. Champagne was served. The day after, owner Lois Ebel remembers, was slower. “The girls kept looking, but no golfers came.”

They lowered the price to 75 cents a round, and persevered. Business grew. These days more than 400 children and teenagers participate yearly in Haystack’s golf programs, not to mention the countless foursomes teeing off from 7 a.m. on each summer morning ($12 during the week, $14 on weekends), or the golfers who practice at…