DALLAS – HAS Dallas“At the Keeton Park golf course, sand traps have turned into mud traps.

Golfers say the city-owned course, off N. Jim Miller Road, has experienced standing puddles and soggy ground in recent months because of running water.

Mesquite Mayor Pro Tem BW Smith played Keeton once a week for years.

He took FOX 4 on a tour of the soggy course.

“It floods the cart path, but it’s a problem that’s been going on for months and months,” he said. “It’s rampant all over the golf course, where the water is standing, and we haven’t had any good rain in thirty days.”

Smith isn’t the only one who has noticed this.

“We think it can’t be from the sprinkler system. Something is broken or something because it never goes away. Even when the conditions get real, very dry, the water is flowing all the time,” he said. said golfer Randy Fast.

Smith said he called the city of Dallas several times with no response.

“(I) spoke to a lady and she transferred me to another lady who I spoke to and again I told her who I was and why I was calling about the water flowing all over the Keeton Golf Course and no one has ever called me back. “I’ve called that number several times since then and I don’t get an answer, it just rings,” Smith said.

In some places it appears work started on a leak but stopped. From the grass growing around it, it appears that work has been stopped for some time.

“There’s no way it could happen like that for a golfer, and look at him, man, it’s a man-made obstacle,” Smith said. “When it’s man-made, like that, and we try to correct it, and nothing gets done, it’s frustrating.”

Dallas Parks and Rec Director John Jenkins told FOX 4 Thursday afternoon that this is the first complaint he has heard about Keeton’s course.

Jenkins said the course was built in 1979 and had an old irrigation system, causing leaks.

He said the city has a sense of urgency about repairs, but it’s not uncommon to fix one leak and have another.

Jenkins says the city isn’t neglecting the golfers’ experience or wasting its water. Water for the course’s irrigation system comes from the Trinity River.