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K
irk Cousins spent the fall of 2022 saving more
NFL games and golf courses from becoming
housing developments than any other player in football.
As Minnesota Vikings quarterback, he had an NFL
record-tying eight game-winning drives, including the
largest comeback in league history after trailing the
Indianapolis Colts 33-0. As an avid golfer, 11-handicap,
history buff and man of considerable means with over
$201 million in career earnings before endorsements,
he and his wife, Julie, purchased Clearbrook Golf Club
near their beachfront home on Lake Michigan when it
appeared the course might not live to see its centennial
celebration in 2026.
Clearbrook, a public course, sits in the small town of
Saugatuck, Michigan (population: 865, including Kirk,
Julie and golf-loving sons Cooper, 6, and Turner, 4). It's
nine minutes from the Cousins' NFL offseason home and
10 from Holland Christian High School, where 35-yearold
Kirk's football journey began.
" Saugatuck is a great community that's really become
attractive to housing developers, " Cousins says. " I had
heard it was likely that Clearbrook would go that way. I
love the land, its history and thought it would be nice to
preserve it for the next generation. I have some ideas, some
dreams for what we'll do with it long-term-after football
is over. "
Jim and Candy Jeltema owned the course since 1984.
They met and befriended Kirk and Julie nine years ago
when the Cousins would frequent Clearbrook's restaurant,
owned and operated by Jim and Candy.
The Jeltemas are in their 70s and no longer wanted the
financial burden of owning a golf course but wanted to
keep their restaurant. They were negotiating with a housing
developer who just wanted the land when Cousins
reached out with the ideal Plan B. Cousins would buy the
golf course and the Jeltemas would continue running it
until Cousins, a durable and still-driven 12-year veteran,
decides to retire at some point in the future.
" It was a win, win, win all the way around, " Jim Jeltema
says. " Candy and I are just so happy to no longer be dealing
with a bank mortgage. It's a win for the community.
And we know that a great young man of high character is
committed to preserving all we've done the past 39 years
and then taking this place to the next level of opportunities
in its second century as a golf course. "
Kirk Cousins at the June 6, 2018, Vikings Foundation Golf Tournament at
The Meadows at Mystic Lake.
Love of the Game
Cousins plays golf 12-15 times in the offseason only, shot a
career-low 80 at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta five years
ago and is, for the time being, as mellow at golf as he is
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