Looking out his back window, John Gembecki often watches eagles, hawks and sandhill cranes soar over the grassy expanse that once was the Deer Run golf course. Once in a while, a coyote will pop up on ...

There were four days in mid-April that hung around 80 degrees in the Twin Cities, and the hope that golf season was about to explode after a late winter filled the hearts of daily-fee course operators ...