DETROIT (WWJ) - The sale of Detroit's historic Rogell Golf Course may be stalled as another challenge to the sale is considered.

A day after the city's zoning board denied an appeal to allow the course to be sold and turned into a cemetery, another appeal was announced.

Attorney Rick Juckiness, who represents Detroit Memorial Park Association, the company that wants to buy the golf course, told WWJ's Stephanie Davis they will appeal to the Circuit Court.

They said the city's zoning board is wrong in saying that the 120 acre property is intended for recreational use that doesn't include cemeteries.

"The thing is that people don't like to play golf in the neighborhood where the golf course is surrounded by boarded up and burned down, and vacant buildings - which just so happens - is where this is," said Juckiness.

"What the Board of Zoning Appeals did was they rendered an opinion that said we will deny the cemetery a conditional use permit, on brand new ground that were never raised by the zoning board," described Juckiness.

But professional golfer and former GM at Rogell, Lindsey Mason III, said the zoning board made the right call on this one.

"This is a historical 18-hole golf course - championship golf course - that was designed by Donald Ross," said Mason.

Greater Grace Temple Church owns the property and has said that it can not afford the up keep of the 120 acres. Residents have protested over high grass and decline of the course but oppose the site being used as a cemetery.

In March,  Detroit officials rejected a proposal to turn a church-owned golf course into a cemetery, which would have been the city's first in decades.

Greater Grace Temple bought the golf course from the city for $2.5 million in 2007 but closed it last May of 2013, saying the operation had never been profitable.

Prior to being shut down, the golf course was one of the city's oldest links. It was founded in 1914 by philanthropist Max Fisher and other prominent business leaders.