Other improvements made by the Kettering, Ohio club as it’s recovered from a 2019 fire and navigated through the pandemic have included a new pool deck, an air purification system, and golf course improvements to the bunkers and roughs. “We’ve really tried to use these challenges as opportunities,” says Director of Membership and Marketing Kerry…
Concert Golf Partners Acquires Two Midwestern Clubs
The Sagamore Club in Noblesville, Ind. and The Players Club at Deer Creek in Omaha, Neb. have been sold to Lake Mary, Fla.-based Concert Golf in an all-cash transaction. The additions give Concert Golf a total of 25 private clubs, and the firm says another club acquisition is scheduled to close in the next 30…
Tributes Pour In as Club Industry Mourns News of Jay DiPietro’s Passing
The longtime President, General Manager and COO of Boca West CC in Boca Raton, Fla., who was a giant force in elevating the prestige of the club management profession, a mentor to countless other club managers and an active leader of many industry associations, lost his fight to cancer on March 7th. Details about planned…
Heritage Golf Acquires Two N.C. Clubs for $12M
(Photo of Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort by Josh Bell/The Sun News) Atlantic Golf Management has sold Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort in Calabash, N.C. and Cape Fear National Golf Course at Brunswick Forest in Leland, N.C. to the Virginia-based management firm. Heritage President and CEO Mark Burnett says his firm plans to convert Cape…
Decision Point Looms for Moundsville (W. Va.) CC
A new Board of Directors that was recently put in place at the 82-year-old club, which is open to the public, is facing a March 15th deadline to resolve or restructure a $1 million loan it received from the state’s Regional Economic Development Partnership in 2019 to help keep it solvent as an offer to…
Plan Approved to Develop Homes on Half of Royce Brook’s Property
(Royce Brook West Course) A proposal that has been many years in the making, to have Toll Brothers build 174 single-family homes on 130 acres of the semi-private Hillsborough, N.J. club’s property, was unanimously approved by the township Planning Board, despite vocal opposition from residents who expressed concern about stormwater runoff, well contamination and increased…
Appeals Court’s Ruling Means Back Taxes May Be Owed for Tiger Point GC
(Photo by Tyler Teston Photography) A county property appraiser sued the city of Gulf Breeze, Fla. in 2017 because it was still taking tax exemptions after it had contracted with a management firm for Tiger Point GC’s operation. Lower courts held that the exemption could still apply, but an appeals court has now reversed previous…
The Aster to Open as New Private Club in Los Angeles
Scheduled for a June 2022 opening, the club will be located in a 95,000-sq. ft. building near the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine and include a 35-room hotel. Created by Salt Hotels to be the “anti-Soho House [and] break all the old rules,” according to CEO David Bowd, those who want to join, at…
County Officials Agree with Justification for $100K Mower at MeadowWood GC
Spokane County (Wash.) commissioners approved the Parks, Recreation and Golf Department’s request to spend $166,000 on new maintenance equipment for the Liberty Lake, Wash. links-style course that was designed by Robert Muir Graves. In addition to a new turf aerator, drivable bunker rake, and putting-green mower, an order for a $100,000 Toro Groundsmaster 4700 has…
Proposed Expansion of Fiddler’s Elbow CC Would Include Guest Housing
A 30,586-sq. ft., three-story lodge with 24 guest rooms would be located next to the first tee of the Bedminster, N.J. club’s Meadows Course. The building would have an elevator, meeting rooms, offices and a small prep kitchen. Other aspects of the proposed expansion that will be reviewed by the local township’s Land Use Board…
Wichita City Council Rejects Privatization of Municipal Courses
(Photo of Auburn Hills GC by Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle) Many interested parties advocated having KemperSports take over the operation of the city’s four municipal golf courses, as recommended by a selection committee and the Park Board. The City Manager said privatization would nearly double projected profits for 2022, and Kemper CEO Josh Lesnik touted…
Permanent Deed Restriction Filed to Protect Acclaimed Arthur Hills Course in Wisconsin
The restriction will ensure that the 25-year-old Washington County Golf Course, which is perennially named as one of the top municipals in the U.S., will not have any portions of land sold off or developed. Endowment funds with over $2 million in private and public funds have been established that are expected to create over…
Buyer Reportedly Found for Dilapidated South Carolina Resort Property
Created in the late 1980s and early ‘90s as a luxury oceanfront getaway with amenities that included a 52-room inn, 24,000-sq. ft. conference center and 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, the checkered history of the Melrose Resort on Daufuskie Island has included two bankruptcies and one owner being jailed for wire and tax fraud.…
Rees Jones Helps Revive Wellman Club After 12-Year Closure
(Photo by Jason Lee/The Sun News) The Johnsonville, S.C. club, with a golf course originally designed by Ellis Maples and Ed Seay in 1966, closed in 2010, but a dedicated resident used his own equipment to keep the fairways mowed, with past members providing financial support. The property was bought by Florence County in 2021…
New Ownership Plans ‘Massive Revitalization’ of Killearn CC
The HOA for the Tallahassee, Fla. property is expected to approve the $2.6 million sale of the club and golf course from its current member-led ownership to Atlanta Ventures (AV), which is headed by a tech entrepreneur, David Cummings, who grew up in Tallahassee. “Starting immediately after closing, we will begin plans [to build] a…