Golf

Ship Creek flooding damages base golf courses

BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News
Flooding from Ship Creek has damaged the bridge on the 3rd hole at the Moose Run Creek Course on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Tuesday.

Where the 15th tee box at Eagleglen Golf Course once stood, Ship Creek now flows. The course that lost an iconic tree to wind earlier this month has now lost an area nearly the size of a football field. Two base courses are closing a month early...

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