Golf Course History

From floating logs to the floating green..

The Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course was the site of a sawmill, which operated from 1916 to 1988, first as the Rutledge Timber Company, and from 1933 as the Potlatch Lumber Company. It was shut down in the early 70's and sat idle until the Hagadone Corp. purchased it. The Hagadone Corporation bought the property in 1988 and developed the golf course and floating green. A substantial clean-up effort ensued, with the removal of hundreds of old pilings, a clean-up of the lake shore and lake bottom, with the removal of hundreds more sunken logs, demolition of a large number of buildings and the subsequent conversion to the beautiful, environmentally friendly, world-class golf resort it is today.