DALLAS – On: dallas‘ Sand traps at Keeton Park Golf Course have become mud traps.

Golfers say the city-owned course on N. Jim Miller Road has seen puddles and wet ground due to running water over the past few months.

Mesquite Mayor Pro Tem B. W. Smith played at Keeton once a week for years.

He took FOX 4 around the wet course.

“The driveway is flooded, but it’s been an ongoing problem for months and months and months,” he said. “Water standing water is very common all over the golf course, and it hasn’t rained well for thirty days.”

Smith isn’t the only one to notice this.

“We don’t think it could be the sprinkler system. Something broke or something because it never goes away. Even when the conditions are real, when it’s really dry, water is constantly flowing through there,” said golfer Randy Fast.

Smith said he called the City of Dallas multiple times but received no response.

“(I) spoke to a lady and she transferred me to another lady I talked to and told her who I was and why I was calling about water running everywhere at the Keeton golf course and no one called me back I’ve called this number several times since then and no answer, it just plays,” says Smith.

It seems that in some places, work on the leak was started but stopped. Judging by the growth of grass in the surrounding area, it appears that the work has been stopped for a while.

“There’s no way for any golfer to see that, and you look at it, man, it’s a man-made obstacle,” Smith said. “When it’s man-made like this and we try to fix it and nothing is done, it’s frustrating.”

Dallas Parks and Rec director John Jenkins told FOX 4 on Thursday afternoon that this was the first complaint he had heard about the Keeton course.

Jenkins said the field was built in 1979 and had an outdated irrigation system, causing leaks.

He said the city feels a sense of urgency about making repairs, but it’s not uncommon to fix one leak only to have another leak appear.

Jenkins says the city isn’t neglecting golfers’ experiences or the loss of water in the city. Water for the site’s irrigation system comes from the Trinity River.