At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, council members voted in favor of the golfers.
The vote happened after a lawsuit was filed by 13 former city employees who were about to lose their free golfing privileges after new management transformed the Pacific Grove Golf Links into a private course.
New management was ready to offer retirees one free game of golf a month, but retirees said that’s not what they were promised years ago.
Councilmembers decided it was not worth the fight and lawsuit to change the city’s 35-year-old city policy, which allows retired city employees courtesy golf.