After being closed for most of the summer, Cobblestone Creek Golf Course will reopen today with new owners and a shorter name.

The new owner, John Paris of Warner, said the course will open at 7 a.m. and will be called Cobblestone Golf Course.

“We’ve had our phone ringing off the wall with people wanting to know when we open,” Paris said. “People really want to play.”

Golfer Harold Cagle, who lives between Warner and Webbers Falls, showed up Wednesday wanting to play, but might come back Friday, “if nothing happens.”

“With its rolling hills and winding creeks, Cobblestone is one of the best courses in town,” Cagle said. “I belonged to it quite a while and they closed it.”

Paris, who has owned Warner’s eight-hole Whispering Meadows course for eight years, bought the Cobblestone course with a winning bid of $744,000 at a sheriff’s sale Aug. 7. Paris joined with partners Dick Scott and Roger Scott to make the successful bid.

Cobblestone, an 18-hole course at 701 E. Smith Ferry Road, had been closed since July 9, when its golf carts were seized. Two brothers, David and Lanny Joseph Dickmann, were named receivers of the property and had been maintaining it until it went up for sheriff’s sale.

In July 2007, Bank of Oklahoma filed a foreclosure action against Mark Kizzia, who had owned the course since 2000.

Paris said he wants to restore the course to its original state. He said crews have been re-seeding and fertilizing the greens.

He said someone vandalized the course by carving “CK” deep into in two of the greens with “some kind of metal object.”

The incident had been reported to Muskogee Police.

Paris said he plans to work the sprinkler system so the course can be watered from the creek-fed lake in the course.

“That will save a lot of money,” he said.

Paris said there will be some minor changes in greens fees.

People riding two to a cart are to pay $28 Monday through Thursday and $36 on weekends; seniors riding two to a cart pay $20 Monday through Thursday. He said he hasn’t decided on weekend greens fees for seniors.