Birdsfoot Golf Club Avis

When it came to raising hay, his favorite was birdsfoot trefoil, not only because it produced green, high quality hay, but also because it was a perennial performer, that would return year after year, often having a life far beyond the two or three year span of other forage crops, such as clover and alfalfa.

The name of the golf course is derived from the birdsfoot trefoil, which you will find throughout the course, as a lush, green ground cover with small yellow flowers.

Parts of the birdsfoot trefoil on the course are remnants of the original hay field planted by Mr.

Birdsfoot TrefoilIn the late 1950s, he planted thirteen acres which now comprises the number three and four holes of this course.

Birdsfoot trefoil is so-called, because it bears clusters of seed pods resembling a bird's foot.