GREEN LAKE — As a child, Janet Blazer of Green Lake lived an idyllic life as the daughter of the owner of the Tuscumbia Golf Course.

Life was simpler in Green Lake in the 1940s and '50s, the era when she and her family stayed at the summerhouse perched on the rolling green hills of the golf course. Blazer is sad to think that the golf course could be gone soon, perhaps replaced by condos.

"I'd hate to see it developed … It is the oldest golf course in the state on the deepest (inland) lake in Wisconsin," she said.

The 100-plus acre property is for sale and there's no way of knowing what the new owner will do with it. Three auctions on the course, the buildings and other land will be conducted in May.

"There's no guarantee (the new owner) would maintain it as a golf course but it certainly is viable for that," said Frank Diliberto, president of Inland Real Estate Auctions Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill.

Inland will auction Tuscumbia Country Club along with a separate building suitable for a bed and breakfast, a 10-unit Green Lake luxury log cabin condominium and attached vacant land.

The auctions for the developable land, condominiums and unrelated building will be open to the public in a live auction on May 13. The auction for the 18-hole course itself will be by sealed bid May 30, Diliberto said.

He's anticipating national interest in the property.

Blazer's worst fear could become a reality. The property could accommodate 90 additional condo units with minor infringement on the golf course proper, Diliberto said.

"This really goes beyond golf. The seller is interested in selling (Tuscumbia) for the highest and best use," he said.

John Geils, whose family owns funeral homes in Bensenville, Ill., is one of the owners of Tuscumbia. On Friday, he declined to comment regarding his reasons for selling the property. He referred all questions to Inland.

"I'm not going on the record. There's a lot of misinformation out there. The media is spinning this as a foreclosure," Geils said.

The country club and condos are not in bankruptcy or foreclosure, according to Wisconsin Circuit Court Records and Federal Bankruptcy Court records.

Geils and an investment group purchased Tuscumbia in the mid-1980s and made improvements to the course and the clubhouse and restaurant. In 2004, the clubhouse and restaurant were destroyed in a fire during construction of a new clubhouse and restaurant. The Wisconsin Department of Criminal Justice arson unit investigated but a cause was never determined.

"There was nothing left to determine where it might have started," said Green Lake Fire Chief Bill Wagner.

The condos were built last year. The units are valued at $175,000 to $500,000. To date, just one of the units has been sold.

Geils' company, Tuscumbia Land Corporation, has paid property taxes amounting to nearly $20,000 for three parcels for the first half of taxes assessed in 2007 and due in 2008. A similar amount is due by July 31, according to Green Lake County Treasurer Kathy Morris.

The country club, which calls itself the oldest golf course in the state, was actually established in 1896 when the owners of Maplewood golf course, established nearby three years earlier, moved remnants of that course to the Tuscumbia site, said Larry Behlen, a local historian.

Tuscumbia began with five holes and expanded to nine in 1905 and to 18 in 1918.

Art Wolk, 82, has been golfing there for 30 years. He described the course as enjoyable and friendly to older golfers. The management has been lacking, however, he said. There is no golf pro and hasn't been one in years.

"There's no personality, no one to go to, no one to relate to," Wolk said.

Some years ago, Wolk hit a hole-in-one and reported it to the clubhouse staff. Nobody made a fuss. They promised to contact local newspapers but never did, he said.

"It's little things like that," Wolk said.