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Neighborhood Site Map. Find a Pro. Search Real Estate Professionals. North East South West. Sign up for the Real Insight to receive informative articles, local market statistics and helpful information tailored to you. Tomberlin recently met with city Economic Development Department officials to determine if the city would be interested in buying the course and clubhouse. City officials have not yet responded to the proposal, he said. The country club has been struggling financially for years, and several years ago opened its golf course to the public, but that did not help, said Tomberlin, 74, a retired accountant who has been a Vista Hills member for about 30 years.

Only about people play the golf course in an average week, compared to about about four years ago, said Louis Gonzalez, Vista Hills board secretary. The country club only has about 70 paying members, down from a high of more than members in the s, Tomberlin said.

Douglas Schwartz, one of El Paso's largest residential land developers, said he was sad to hear about Vista Hills' plan to close because his father, Mickey Schwartz, and partner, Charles Foster, developed Vista Hills golf course and the surrounding residential neighborhoods, many of which have streets named after famous pro golfers.

Tomberlin said other El Paso golf courses are struggling also because many El Pasoans today don't have the time or inclination to play golf as people did decades ago. El Paso's three publicly owned golf courses have lost millions of dollars in recent years, an El Paso Times investigation found last year.

But out of letters sent to the homeowners, only 23 agreed to pay the monthly fee, Tomberlin said. The program was sold as a way to maintain property values that are higher around golf courses, Tomberlin said.

Gonzalez, the club's board secretary and a club member for about 30 years, said closing the club and its golf course is disheartening. The clubhouse restaurant closed in January.