To keep water loss as a minimum, golf courses like their lake bottoms to keep water from leaking into the ground. At the Lakes, many of the lake liners date back to the opening of the club 40 ...

An early photograph showing the Alcoma Country Club in Penn Hills as seen from the course, facing toward Saltsburg Road. Three years after Hawk bought it, he changed the name to 3 Lakes Golf ...

Dec. 14—The culture surrounding the game of golf was quite different a century ago. When Art Hawk bought the former Alcoma Golf Club in 2006, his daughter Megan Strasser made a surprising ...