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(NewsDakota.com) Despite the warm temperatures that have allowed many area golf courses to open their seasons well ahead of schedule, the Oakes Golf Course still has a long way to go until golfers can hit the links.

The course was inundated with water last year due to spring flooding, and as a result was never open in the 2011 season. Work started on construction of a dike system back in the third quarter of the year.