The Tampa Sports Authority plans to fumigate the golf course on May 9 with a pesticide called Curfew that kills nematodes. When the pesticide was used in 2008, some residents claimed it made them sick, and in May 4, a handful of neighbors voiced their concerns about the safety of the pesticide during a protest.

In 2008, the public agency used Curfew at Babe Zaharias Golf Course in Tampa, Fla., which generated public outcry and accusations that the chemical made a nearby resident sick. Residents claim that the agency did not adequately notify them of its use of the chemical last year at the Rogers Park Golf Course.