Prairie Band golf course planned

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe is going into the golf course business.

The tribe will launch its plans with a program at 11 a.m. Monday at the Prairie Band Casino and Resort. The proposed 18-hole course will be located across the street from the casino on reservation land north of Topeka.

The course is being designed by a firm owned by Notah Begay III, the only American Indian on the PGA tour.

The Prairie Band casino will be the only one in the area to have a golf course and comes as there's renewed efforts to have a state-owned casino in Wyandotte County and another in Sumner County.

There are three other tribal casinos on reservation land in northeast Kansas and four casinos in Kansas City, Mo.