With the press in tow, and reporters asking about the property’s signature fourth hole, Sarazen replied, “This is a monster of a hole,” Mike Stoltz, the property’s former golf director, recalled for the Times Herald-Record. Empire Resorts leases the land for the casino and the Monster property from the real estate trust EPR Properties of Kansas City, Mo.ĮPR will receive 5 percent of the Monster’s future revenues, money that can be used to improve the overall property, including EPR’s future $180 million-plus Kartrite Resort & Indoor Waterpark, set to open March 28, Empire Resorts told the Times Herald-Record.Įmpire Resorts has yet to set golf fees, but the company said that it intends to make the Monster readily playable for the public and resort guests, the Times Herald-Record reported.įirst designed by Houston architect Joe Finger, the original Monster took its name from golf legend and career grand slam winner Gene Sarazen, during a publicity golf outing to promote it just before its 1963 opening, the Times Herald-Record reported. That’s when the first nine holes of the storied former course, open from 1963 to 2015, will reopen next to Resorts World Catskills, with the back nine set for a summer 2020 reopening.Ĭasino parent Empire Resorts is funding the $21.2 million redevelopment of the golf course, according to the Times Herald-Record report. will roar again come fall, the Thompson (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record reported. The Monster Golf Course in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y. A nearby $180 million-plus Kartrite Resort & Indoor Waterpark is set to open March 28.

The course in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., which was given its name by Gene Sarazen in 1963 but has been closed since 2015, will reopen nine holes after a Rees Jones redesign this fall, with the second nine scheduled for a summer 2020 debut.

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