By Jim Owczarski Sports Editor Published Mar 08, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Milwaukee County Parks has announced it will open seven golf courses for the season starting Saturday, March 10 at 8 a.m. Customers can enjoy the lowest pricing of the season as they get their swing back and enjoy the early golf season.

The courses that will be opening are as follows:

  • Currie Park at 3535 N. Mayfair Rd., (414) 453-7030
  • Grant Park at 100 E. Hawthorne Ave., (414) 762-4646
  • Greenfield Park at 12035 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis, (414) 256-4010
  • Hansen Park at 9800 Underwood Creek Parkway, (414) 453-4454
  • Lincoln Park at 1000 W. Hampton Ave., (414) 962-2400
  • Oakwood Park at 3600 W. Oakwood Rd. in Franklin, (414) 281-6700
  • Whitnall Park at 6751 S. 92nd St. in Franklin, (414) 425-7931

For same day reservations call the golf course directly. For reservations of advanced tee times call (414) 475-6222.

Renewal and new Golf Discount Cards will be available for purchase on site.

Non-resident Golf Discount Cards are available this year for $50 and
include Brown Deer.

Jim Owczarski is an award-winning sports journalist and comes to Milwaukee by way of the Chicago Sun-Times Media Network.

A three-year Wisconsin resident who has considered Milwaukee a second home for the better part of seven years, he brings to the market experience covering nearly all major and college sports.

To this point in his career, he has been awarded six national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and projects. He is also a four-time nominee for the prestigious Peter J. Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism, presented by the Chicago Headline Club, and is a two-time winner for Best Sports Story. He has also won numerous other Illinois Press Association, Illinois Associated Press and Northern Illinois Newspaper Association awards.

Jim's career started in earnest as a North Central College (Naperville, Ill.) senior in 2002 when he received a Richter Fellowship to cover the Chicago White Sox in spring training. He was hired by the Naperville Sun in 2003 and moved on to the Aurora Beacon News in 2007 before joining OnMilwaukee.com.

In that time, he has covered the events, news and personalities that make up the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, NCAA football, baseball and men's and women's basketball as well as boxing, mixed martial arts and various U.S. Olympic teams.

Golf aficionados who venture into Illinois have also read Jim in GOLF Chicago Magazine as well as the Chicago District Golfer and Illinois Golfer magazines.