On June 28th, Springdale Job Corps Center held its annual Junkyard Golf Tournament.  The center campus served as the golf course with “golf holes” built around campus by students and staff using recycled and repurposed materials.

This year’s golf holes classic movies, tricky physics, models of airplanes made from cardboard and duct tape, and a lot of fun.  Prizes were given for best theme, most creative, and best use of junk.  The winners of each category got to choose from three prizes: ice cream party, movie night party, or pizza party.  Students turned in their completed score cards to be entered in a raffle for individual prizes.

Protective Services students won for Best Use of Junk.  Most Creative went to the Academics Instructors, and Best Theme went to the Center Director team.  The two staff teams agreed to donate their prizes back to the students.  Protective Services got first dibs on which party they wanted.

Students and staff alike enjoy the Junkyard Golf tournament and everything used in building the golf holes is recycled and repurposed.  Cardboard boxes became airplane hangers; leftover chicken wire is crafted in to a tornado.  Some holes were quite easy with golfers finishing with two or three putts.  Other holes earned reputations for being extremely difficult, like the Auto Body Paint creation that included wire racks, a dummy hole right next to the real hole, and a ball return in case you missed your shot.

Students and staff walked the “golf course,” playing the holes in no particular order.  However, in order for them to enjoy a post game ice cream sandwich and to be entered in to the raffle, they were required to play each hole once and fill in their score cards completely.

Junkyard Golf is a unique tradition at Springdale.  Students and staff alike have a lot of fun coming up with the themes and designs of their golf holes.  Springdale looks forward to continuing this fun outdoor activity.