BEER CARTS COULD HIT PUBLIC LINKS.Byline: Eric Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer The chance to buy a cold beer out on the public links sounds like a good idea to golfer Paul Kane For other persons named Paul Kane, see Paul Kane (disambiguation). Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. , who was teeing off Thursday at the Encino Golf Course. An unlimited number of roving golf carts selling booze Booze sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153] See : Drunkenness already are allowed on L.A.'s private courses. If a bill approved Thursday in the state Assembly becomes law, public courses would not be limited either. ``People are already bringing alcohol out on the green, so having the carts would bring in money for the courses,'' said Kane, a 34-year-old marketing manager from Sherman Oaks. ``The alcohol wouldn't hurt my game.'' Laws now restrict public courses statewide to no more than two such carts for an 18-hole golf course. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. does not have any beer carts on its public courses because the city has never made the mobile bars part of its contracts with concession operators. But Ron Kraus, the city Department of Parks and Recreation's budget director, said the carts may be coming soon to local links, starting with the Hansen Dam Hansen Dam in Los Angeles County, California was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1939 and 1940. The project is located near the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley on Tujunga Wash, about one mile below the confluence of the Big Tujunga Wash Golf Course. ``It seems to be something our golfers want,'' Kraus said. ``We're looking into having them because it seems to be a popular amenity.'' Kraus said some concession owners complain that they are losing money because golfers bring their own coolers of beer. But one golfer, who asked not to be identified, said she opposes the booze-cart proposal because children often use public courses. ``I do not think it would be in the best interests of the children who are learning the game,'' said the 40-year-old woman from West Los Angeles
Golfers at the Encino and Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). golf courses, which are next to each other, can already buy beer at the clubhouse, the driving range and two snack bars on the greens. Woodland Hills resident Jim Germann, who was sipping his own beer as he waited to tee off, said he liked the idea of the roving bars but added that there should be a limit on the number. ``People can get stewed stewed adj. 1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes. 2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk. stewed Adjective 1. ,'' the 49-year-old clerical worker said. ``A little bit (of alcohol) is enough.'' |
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