Al Herman, long time valley resident, remembers the day back in 1962 when the Soule Park Golf Course first opened for play. "All of the big shots were there," Herman recalled the other afternoon while looking through the pages of a scrapbook he keeps for the Soule Park Senior Men's Golf Club. "Ken MacDonald (former supervisor and assemblyman) hit the first shot. After all the dignitaries and people like that went out in the first couple of foursomes, the rest of us got a chance to play.