The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON—The Touchet Valley Golf Club board has developed an aggressive five-year strategy, and is now working on implementation of one of its first priorities, which is to raise money for an underground irrigation system at the golf course.

Golf course concessionaire Bill Ayotte said the June 22 First Annual Gene Crothers Memorial Golf Tournament was hugely successful in raising money for the irrigation system.

“This is the first time there has been a project to benefit the club,” he said.

But it won’t be the last.

Ayotte said the tournament has helped to raise awareness about what the golf cou...