Shopping for an deserted golf course and restoring it from scratch feels like a dream for a lot of golf followers. For one man in Maine, that dream is now actuality.
A person who posts underneath the deal with @thefairwayfields on TikTok and YouTube (and who lists his actual title solely as “Tye”) bought the deserted golf course in Chesterville, Maine, earlier this 12 months.
After selecting up golf final 12 months, he shortly realized that there wasn’t wherever to play inside 40 minutes. So he determined to construct his personal course.
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Tye detailed his imaginative and prescient for the deserted course on his TikTok account, which incorporates an outside simulator bay, a standard driving vary, in addition to an Airbnb rental, which can be utilized as a venue for weddings and different occasions. The acquisition additionally got here with a trove of out-of-use tools and classic golf golf equipment he plans to revive. He has since named the venture Fairway Fields.
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Fairway Fields – section 1 🫡
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Balancing the restoration with a full-time job, Tye started posting updates in June. His movies struck a chord, serving to Fairway Fields appeal to practically 800,000 followers throughout Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, with many clips reaching hundreds of thousands of views.
“Has potential to be the best TikTok collection of all time,” one TikTok person wrote. “My new life objective: shopping for an deserted golf course with the boys,” joked one other. A 3rd person commented: “If I received the lottery, I wouldn’t inform anybody, however there can be indicators.” (Quick Firm has reached out to Fairway Fields for remark.)
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In a single video, Tye exhibits how far he has are available in restoring the greens to their former glory. In one other, he paperwork the painstaking means of reviving upkeep tools unused for a decade.
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The progress in only a few months has been placing, with a loyal group desperate to see the venture succeed. Some commenters have supplied their labor and others their cash by way of GoFundMe, and lots of say they’ll journey throughout the nation as soon as Fairway Fields opens.
That could be quickly. In his newest video, Tye introduced the vary portion of the course must be open to the general public by subsequent week.
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Fairway Fields from a birds POV 🦅
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