Spring Meadows Golf Club

Improve your golf experience with the Spring Meadows Golf Club app! This app includes: - Interactive Scorecard - Golf Games: Skins, Stableford, Par, Stroke Scoring - GPS - Measure your shot! - Golfer Profile with Automatic Stats Tracker - Hole Descriptions & Playing Tips - Live Tournaments & Leaderboards - Book Tee Times - Message Center - Rewards - Food & Beverage Menu - Facebook Sharing - And much more… Fresh air, fun, relaxation, camaraderie, friendly environment, exercise, social connections, and more fun is what you get in a round of golf at Spring Meadows. Whether you are playing golf with a significant other, in a small group, or in one of our leagues, Spring Meadows will give you an exceptional experience that you expect! A Bit of Early History It was early in 1998 that the 4 Pollard Brothers, Gary, David, Jeff and Brad, met with their Dad, James, to discuss the possibility of transforming their family dairy farm into an 18-hole championship golf course. A few times over the years, the brothers had been approached by Fred Stone, a well known area golf course shaper, with the idea to construct a golf course on the family farm. Fred was an extraordinary golf course shaper, who learned the business from his dad – a shaper who had worked on projects with Robert Trent Jones Sr. (see below). The prospect of building a golf course was exciting to all of us and the timing seemed right. We all enjoyed playing golf, and golf was seeing a boom in play at that time – certainly fueled by Tiger Woods and the “Tiger Effect”. So the seeds for a golf course were planted at that meeting and from that point on, things moved quickly. Fred was hired as our shaper and he put us in touch with an up and coming golf architect, Bradley Booth. Steve Hoisington was hired to be our superintendent throughout the construction phase and would stay as superintendent for the next 15 + years, where he continued improving the conditions at Spring Meadows. Numerous meetings with Stone and Booth began – the planning was underway. David eventually retired from a 28 year career in education the next year and moved back to his roots to learn, run and operate a golf course. Brad Pollard continued to operate our family restaurant across the street, but was able to be the key brother in the construction phase of the golf course – overseeing and working very closely with Booth, Stone and others at state agencies to acquire the necessary permitting. Brothers Jeff, an engineer, and Gary, a manager at the family restaurant continued with their jobs but were there with their support as the project moved forward. None of us really knew what lied ahead for us. On May 4th of 1998, ground was broken – the construction process was underway. Spring Meadows opened for one month in October of ’99 for 9-hole play and continued as 9 holes in 2000. Spring Meadows has been operating as 18 holes since 2001. Our 1922 barn has been transformed into a beautiful event center for banquets, weddings and other social functions. Today Spring Meadows has become a very successful business. It has earned a reputation for being one of the best conditioned golf courses in Maine and beyond. It’s been described by Golf Digest as “. . . a venue worth the drive.”