Meditation school wants to buy golf course

Maharishi transcendentalMeditation school wants to buy the Rackham Golf Course for $6.25 million with plans to keep it intact but turn it into an organic course, in addition to offering educational programs on golf and agriculture.

It's one of three offers that Detroit has received for the 120-acre course in Huntington Woods since it opened bids this summer for the land.

The offer was submitted by the Massachusetts-based Maharishi Vedic Education Corp., a transcendental mediation school, and the Global Country of World Peace, a non-profit group that advocates world peace and is based in Iowa.

The golf course was given to the city by the Rackham family in the 1920s under the stipulation that it remain a golf course or revert to the heirs. Lawyers for some Rackham heirs indicated they have reached a deal with Premium Golf to waive the deed restriction.