golf
Played UPCC yesterday. Shot a 76 from the white tees…6,223 yards. Played with a former client ( who purchased a home there in 2009 ) and remains thrilled with both the home and golf facilities. This is a 27 hole, gated golf course community situated just west of Honore on University Parkway. Consistently ranked…
Rees Jones has been hired to give Islandside a major renovation. General manager Michael Welly said that the “Open Doctor” surveyed and played the course last week. Since it’s inception in 1961, the course has never undergone anything close to what is planned. The grass on the entire course will be changed to Platinum Paspalum, a…
Played in the annual Member-Guest event on Thursday & Friday of this week at the OAKS CLUB . We were paired against 5 other two man teams in the single digit 1st flight. Of five 9-hole matches we won three, lost one and tied one. Good enough for 2nd place… but no cigar…or prize money….
In keeping with my promise to play and report on a new golf course every week, I visited Misty Creek just east of I75 off the Bee Ridge extension. I have played this course before, but this is the first time from the tips. Wow. There are some truly tight fairways the further back you…
After a five year absence, I returned to Bent Tree yesterday. Played with Thomas, a former client, and was paired with two fine gentlemen from Swinden, England. Nice head to head match…but we won our “beer bet” as we closed them out on 15. On our way back to the updated clubhouse I picked up…
It started out so well last year. I kept my promise of blogging once a week all the way up to ….August. So here we go again. I plan on doing a golf blog each and every week…but this year will be a little different. I will attempt to play on a different course every…
What a testament to the quality and desirability of membership. With other local private clubs experiencing a shrinking membership and actively advertising for new blood, the Oaks has announced that they are just 19 golfers short of their full capacity of golfers. At the July meeting open to all equity, social, golf, tennis…
As stated in an earlier blog, London Bay Homes recently purchased all the last 86 residential home sites in the high end golf course community of The Founders Club. It didn’t take the company long to announce some stunning price drops on lots. The following five home sites have been dropped by as…
Developers of Lakewood Ranch are so confident in their location and the housing market rebound that they have announced a new housing project that will add 800 new homes in the sprawling master-planned community just off University Park east of I75. I have blogged about this golf course community many times. From the…
Per a July 7 article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, a Naples-based home builder has acquired the 86 remaining home sites at The Founders Club, and has assumed the sales and marketing of the luxury golf community. The purchase price and terms of the deal between London Bay Homes and The Founders Club Development…
