The 125-year-old club in Ohio’s capital city has completed a two-year, $4.5 million renovation of its Donald Ross golf course while also adding amenities, activities and programming to appeal to a younger and more family-oriented demographic. Seventy-five new members, with an average age of 39, joined last year. An article and photo slideshow in…
Course Renovations Underway at Mill Creek GC
A $510,000 project on the Youngstown, Ohio property’s northern course includes new drainage beneath the bunkers. Next year, the drainage systems will be replaced beneath all 36 greens at both courses, a $1.2 million project, and 2020 will see the paving of cart paths on the southern course. In the 90 years since Mill Creek…
College Golf Coach Joins Partnership to Purchase Pennsylvania Club
Brian Quinn, a former touring pro now in his llth season as head men’s coach at Philadelphia’s Temple University, is part of a new corporation formed to acquire Plymouth Country Club in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., which will now be rebranded as The 1912 Club, in recognition of the year it was founded. The club features a William Flynn-designed golf course that will now be renovated under the direction of Ron Prichard.
Barack Obama Joins Chicago’s Beverly CC, ‘the United Nations’ of Golf Clubs
The former President has accepted an offer to become an honorary member of the club on the city’s South Side, which will allow him to play its Donald Ross course without having to pay an initiation fee or dues or be charge only when bringing guests. The club is located near where the Obamas maintain a Chicago residence.
Coming Centennial Prompts Makeover at Longmeadow (Mass.) CC
The club will turn 100 in 2022, and is commemorating the event with a $5 million renovation that is removing trees, repairing cart paths, and improving drainage on the golf course. However, the biggest changes will be in the clubhouse, which will be modernized with energy-efficient touches and be made more open and family-friendly with…
Decisions Reached for Detroit, Florida Municipals
The Detroit City Council broke an earlier deadlock to award a two-year contract for the Chandler Park, Rackham and Rouge Park courses to a new management firm, Signet Golf Associates II. In Brevard County, Fla., commissioners took steps to continue with the transfer of The Savannahs course on Merritt Island to a homeowners’ association, and of The Habitat and Spessard Holland courses to a new non-profit organization of local residents called Golf Brevard.
Chautauqua (N.Y.) GC to Develop Golf Course Improvement Plans
The 36-hole facility, which is part of the not-for-profit Chautauqua Institution, features the Donald Ross-designed Lake Course, which opened in 1924, and the Xen Hassenplug-designed Hill Course, which opened in 1994. Both golf courses need infrastructure and playability updates. Chautauqua (N.Y.) Golf Club is working with an architect to develop improvement plans for its Lake…
University Golf Programs Announce Facility Updates, Partnerships
The University Club of Milwaukee (Wis.) has announced a 25-year partnership to be the home course for the Marquette University’s men’s golf team. A $6.5 million clubhouse at Birdwood Golf Course for University of Virginia golf in Charlottesville, Va., is due for completion by mid-September, and the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will use the Broadmoor Country…
Fort Myers (Fla.) CC Celebrates Centennial
The club is one of 15 that turned 100 in 2017, eight of which, including Fort Myers CC, have golf courses designed by Donald Ross. “People who don’t know golf history don’t know how special it is to be 100,” said Rich Lamb, who has been the club’s Director of Golf for 40 years. “There’s a few exceptions but most of those courses are up north; there’s not many down south.”
Leading the Charge at Chattanooga G&CC
Adding value to dues dollars through inclusive modern amenities is paying off with an infusion of new members for the 120-year-old Tennessee club. Peppered throughout the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., are numerous historic markers, indicating the locations where some of the most important events in America’s early days occurred—from the path of the “Trail of…
A New Club for the New South
Injecting energy into its facilities, amenities and membership mix has kept 122-year-old Greenville (S.C.) CC in step with the transformation of its namesake city.
Benvenue CC Celebrates 95 Years
After struggling through the downturn, the Rocky Mount, N.C. club with a Donald Ross-designed course is now on sound financial ground with membership again trending upward, according to General Manager Michele Benton. The club, which elected its first female President this year, is scheduled to host the N.C. Senior Women’s Golf Association tournament in the fall of 2019.
Resurrection Golf Acquires Penobscot Valley CC
The management company, under the leadership of Kevin McCarthy, will operate the Orono, Maine golf course and has absorbed its tax debt of $227,358 from the previous owner, Harris Golf Inc. in a debt-to-equity swap. McCarthy previously bought Old Marsh Country Club in Wells, Maine and Bath (Maine) Golf Club, both of which were owned and…
Florida Gulf Coast Clubs Complete, Announce Course Renovations
The four-month, $650,000 project at Mangrove Bay GC in St. Petersburg, Fla., re-grassed all 18 greens and three practice greens with Platinum Paspalum, and re-sodded collars using 419 Bermuda. Bellaire (Fla.) CC, recognized as home to Florida’s first course, will renovate its two Donald Ross-designed 18-hole courses over the next five years.
Golf Course Enhancement Project Underway at Lakewood (Colo.) CC
Colorado’s second-oldest country club has begun the final “sprint” to complete a $1.65M renovation that was first conceived in 1994. Gil Hanse will direct the project on a course that was redesigned by Donald Ross in 1916.