Make this year go away - The Big 3-0 is certainly a birthday to forget for The Fairways

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

The 30-year anniversary for The Fairways Golf Course will certainly be memorable.

It will go down as the time the West Plains’ links had to put up a fight for its life.

In a season that opened with a celebration with birthday cake and rolling back greens fees three decades, the course enters its final four months scratching and clawing for its survival.

But there’s no quit evident when you talk to general manager and head professional Kris Kallem who is busy trying to make up for lost time, inaccurate news of how the course is playing — and most importantly, lost...