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“No, we are changing the way the game is
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His per diem for students is on the high
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“Right now, everyone is fixated on where
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Marc proceeded to talk about how he
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“We have to get your posture right from
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To do that, EBC has assembled an all-
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It wasn’t that long ago that to pay off
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someone hit a “green in regulation.” None,
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voice during a morning outing.
Today, things are changing rapidly and
the word analytical is entering the golf instructors’ lesson plans.
Think Moneyball where detailed statistics help form the decision to go with a certain player in a certain situation in baseball.
According to Marc Solda, President and
CEO of Every Ball Counts in Palm Beach
Gardens, in order to improve your game
you need to know where to improve. It’s
no longer about birdies, eagles and driving
distance. It’s not about hooking and slicing.
It’s statistics, baby.
The PGA tour has more than 300 categories to track the players’ performances: –
not just birdies, eagles and driving distance
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strokes gained putting and even how many
times a player was able to get the phone
number of the tall blonde in the gallery.
Okay, that last one is an “unofficial” stat
but take a couple of hours one day when
you need to kill some time and see where
your favorite player ranks in each category.
It has become more detailed than the average golfer needs to know.
Or does it?
Solda, along with his partners and advisers such as Ernie Els and Frank Nobilo,
has designed a program to help every level
of player reach his or her goal in golf using
just those statistics. Of course, the stats are
your own from previous rounds.
His instructors want to know more than
just your handicap and whether you are a
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They want you to record each shot
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A first step in women’s sports
By Bill Van Smith
For the Orange Bowl Committee, it is a
step into the unknown. For the First Tee of
Miami, it is a step that it has taken and mastered many times before.
Most importantly,
for South Florida female golfers, it’s a giant step forward. In
golf terms, you could
call it going from out
of bounds to straight
down the fairway.
The Orange Bowl
Committee,
under the
Lee Stapleton
auspices of President
and Chairperson Lee Stapleton, has ventured where no other Orange Bowl Committee has ventured ever before. They are
forming the Orange Bowl’s first-ever female
sports program, and the sport they have selected to kick off this program is – and you
probably have already guessed this – is golf.
The program is titled “Drive for Excellence” and Stapleton called it “something
that is close to my heart.
“The Orange Bowl has never before
invested in an initiative focused solely on
women’s athletics,” Stapleton said. “I’ve
long envisioned a program that would
make a difference in the lives of young
women, empowering them to achieve their
greatest of dreams.”
If you want to put those dreams in
more substantive terms, just say “college
scholarships.”
It is estimated that one-third of women’s
college golf scholarships are left unused.
That’s a statistic that can’t be ignored, according to Stapleton. She would like zero
scholarships to go unused.
The First Tee of Miami is the facilitator in
achieving that result, and for good reason.
The First Tee at Melreese Country Club,
under the direction of the well-known DeLuccas (father Charlie Jr. and son Charlie
III), has worked for decades in helping kids
with ethics and values and education. The
DeLuccas, no doubt, love golf, and certainly teach the kids how to smack a golf ball
long, hard and straight, but the sport comes
secondary to the values and education that
they try to instill in the young people they
have mentored for decades.
That’s why The First Tee and the Orange
Bowl Committee teamed up. The OBC wanted to do some good for women’s athletics and
young people, and The First Tee is the master
of doing just that for many, many years.
First Tee knows the drill – and, to the
kids, it is anything but a drill. The way The
First Tee and the DeLuccas work is to make
the process both fun and meaningful as
they teach morals, choices, education and
golf to young people
How can you tell the program works?
It’s easy.
Many people who went through The
First Tee process decades ago return to
Melreese as adults to help make sure what
happened to them way back when happens
to the kids of today.
As Stapleton said, “Us teaming up with
The First Tee is a perfect fit.”
In the inaugural year, 35 young South
Florida women between the ages of 8 and
18 will participate in the Orange Bowl program. For more information, go to www.orangebowl.org or call The First Tee of Miami
at Melreese Country Club at 305-633-4583.
Send e-mail to LH@teetimesnews.com or call
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TANYA EATHAKOTTI GETS A ‘HELLO, WORLD’ MOMENT
The First Tee of Miami selected Tanya Eathakotti to represent it in the 2015 Nature Valley First Tee Open, an official Champions
Tour event that was held Sept. 25-27 and televised internationally on Golf Channel. Eathakotti joined 80 other participants from
The First Tee chapters for the event, which is in its 12th year. The First Tee of Miami's Program Director, Mario Avello, said that
Eathakotti earned her honor: “Tanya is successful on and off the golf course because of her dedication to the core lessons learned
through the years of participation in The First Tee of Miami. Tanya exemplifies the First Tee Code of Conduct and The First Tee Nine
Core Values. Tanya was a bit shy when she started but has developed into a pretty good golfer with excellent leadership skills. She
is especially good at helping younger players to enjoy and learn the game during our clinics. Without doubt, Tanya is an exemplary
young lady with a bright future ahead of her in life, academics and the game of golf.” Eathakotti was paired with fellow South
Floridian Marco Dawson and the pair finished T13 at 12 under, with the first and third rounds at Pebble Beach and the second round
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INSTRUCTION
Stop chunking and topping the ball
By Chris Howard and Andrew Michael
Golfers who struggle to make solid
contact with their irons usually have two
common errors: They either hit the ground
first, or they hit on top of the ball
This can lead to severe frustration, but
with a simple drill the problem can be
erased for good.
Most golfers feel the need to scoop
the club head underneath the ball to hit
the shot in the air. Unfortunately, this is a
flawed approach.
With irons, to maximize height and distance, a golfer must have forward shaft lean
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Accomplishing this repeatedly will automatically create forward shaft lean time
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Making St. James saintly again
Golf courses are a living organism.
Like all other living things, over time
they come to need some parts replaced,
or simply revitalized.
Most of us don’t
even think about the
life expectancy of portions of a course. We
see the clubhouse
needing new carpet or
a fresh coat of paint.
We notice that the
bunkers could use an
Treasure Coast Notes infusion of actual sand.
Did you know, howJames Stammer
ever, that the greens
on most courses have a life of about eight
years? After that the grass needs to be replaced, the invading grasses removed, the
soil re-tilled and brought back to life.
St. James Golf Club in Port St. Lucie
opened in 2000. In the past 15 years the
greens have seen just routine maintenance.
“To say the greens were overdue for replacement would be an understatement,”
head professional Chris Cunnife said.
The course cut some corners during the
recession to stay afloat. The course survived,
but the toll on the greens, tees and fairways
was painfully obvious. With the economy
coming around, the owners decided to do
something about it and hired Champion Turf
Farms of Bay City, Texas, to do the work.
Champion Turf Farms will celebrate its
50th year in business in 2016. The company
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the breeder, producer and installer of its grass.
St. James closed on the first day of June.
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The view from the tee box on the eighth hole at St. James Golf Club, where the greens
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star team of coaches and individuals who
have helped elite athletes around the globe
win 13 Olympic gold medals, 48 world
championships, and 125 tour victories including eight major titles.
Darren May, director of instruction at
The Bear’s Club in West Palm Beach and
coach to three PGA Tour players, is one of
the founders. Using information from Shotlink, the technology used by the Tour to
record locations of every shot in every tournament, he has helped his players by identifying the level of their skill and determining
clear targeted pathways for improvement.
Of course you can read the company’s
accolades from Els and a couple of the
EBC’s students on www.everyballcounts.
com, but it is seeing and hearing about others involved in the program which make
people take notice.
Last year, 14-year-old Sarah Kahn
moved to Palm Beach County with her
family and wanted badly to just make the
golf team at the Benjamin School. She was
more nervous about that, Solda said as
Sarah practiced outside, than she was being
accepted by the other teens in the school.
End result? “In one year in our program,” Solda said, “she not only made the
varsity team but blew away the field.”
By looking at the numerous statistics
from previous rounds, the team determines
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Kovelesky wins third world title
At age 8, Chloe Kovelesky has had a golf
career that some could only dream about.
She was featured in Esquire’s The Short
Game – a docu-reality television series –
and has captured three
World championships.
Kovelesky, a fourth
grader, who lives in
the Boca Woods community, belts out oneline slogans almost
impressively as her
drives off the tee.
“It doesn’t matter
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she said. “You have to
have as much fun as
you can. You can hit a bad shot and move
on and hit a great shot.”
There is also her favorite line: “You have
be a great person before you can be a great
champion.”
She knows all about being a champion.
Kovelesky added two more World Championships to her credit this summer as she
captured the IMG/Callaway Junior World
Championship in San Diego, Calif., and U.S.
Kids World Championship in Pinehurst,
N.C., for the 8-year-old age group. She won
the U.S. Kids World Championship in the
7-and-under bracket last year at Pinehurst.
“It was a goal,” Kovelesky said. “Remember, you just have to do your best and have
fun. If you don’t do your best and not have
fun, what’s the point of even doing it?”
The docu-series was about elementary
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school-aged golfers and their golfing relationships with their parents, most of who
caddy for their children.
The series was based on the 2013 documentary of the same name that was produced by Justin Timberlake.
It followed eight of the very best 7- and
8-year-old golfers in the United States as
they navigated school, family life and the
series of tournaments that led to the ultimate test of skill and dedication – the U.S.
Kids Golf World Championship. Kovelesky
said she thought the series would have portrayed the young golfers in a different light.
Photo by Gary Curreri
“They said it was going to be about the
real short game,” she said. “It was going to
show kids playing and all of the fun that
they have and trying to make the game bigger and stronger for all of the kids that were
going to be getting into golf. More than just
about their caddy.”
Kovelesky perfected her game under the
tutelage of PGA professional instructor Brian
Symonds and practices and plays regularly
with PGA professional Dave Cunliffe and
Frank Lostaglio, II on the two championship
courses at Boca Woods Country Club.
Kovelesky hopes to eventually wind up
on the LPGA Tour with her role model,
Morgan Pressel.
“I want to be like Morgan Pressel doing
a lot of charities and helping a lot of people,” Kovelesky said. “I met her once two
years ago at her Morgan and Friends charity event. She is awesome and just a great
person on and off the golf course.”
Toski junior event a success
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Velez finds a way to the Tour
WIN A FREE ROUND FOR FOUR
In a quest to become a successful professional golfer, Carlos Velez has spent
much of his life involved in a myriad of
jobs that keep him immersed in the sport
he so much loves.
His first golf job
came at age 15, working at Miccosukee
Golf & Country Club
in southern MiamiDade County. Velez
cleaned carts and labored on the range.
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doing when practicing on the range. Admit it, you test your
accuracy by aiming your shots at that vehicle with the mesh cage as they clean up
all those loose practice balls.
Just remember, that might have been
young Carlos or some other poor soul in
that vehicle.
At Miccosukee, Velez went on to jobs
that included cleaning up and working on
the carts, working the front desk, going on
the course and picking up fallen branches,
etc., working as an assistant teaching pro,
and even filling in as the acting general
manager.
He also has taken a swing – literally – as
a touring PGA professional, playing on the
PGA’s Latinoamerica Tour.
For Velez, there have been many jobs
with many different skill sets, but they
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have always come back to that love of his
– golf.
Of all the golf jobs Velez has held,
which was the most difficult for him?
“Playing golf and trying to make a living that way,” he said.
And which was the most enjoyable of
his golf jobs?
“Playing golf and trying to make a living that way,” he repeated with a smile.
Now, at age 27, all of Velez’s aforementioned jobs have built a solid foundation
– similar to a good golf stance – for his
current status.
After 10 years at Miccosukee, Velez
currently is a teaching pro at Melreese
Country Club, and has landed yet another
golf job. That latest endeavor comes with
a bonus, getting Velez on the PGA Tour –
not as a player, but as a caddie.
In the past several months, Velez has
been carrying the bag for successful PGA
Tour player Erik Compton.
That pairing of Velez and Compton
seems to be a natural. Compton, 35 and a
Miami Palmetto High graduate, was born
and raised in Miami, and Velez moved
from Colombia to Miami when he was
9 years old and played at Braddock High
(three-time first-team All-Dade and onetime Miami-Dade Player of the Year).
Of his relationship with Compton,
Velez said, “It has been great, and I think it
helps that we’re both from Miami.”
Compton quickly agreed. “The fact that
we both grew up in Miami is something
good that we have in common.”
Another area Velez and Compton have
in common is their interest in helping kids
learn golf and the ethical and moral values
that come attached to the game.
Why? Because both of them, as they
grew up in Miami, had people do the same
for them.
They were both part of The First Tee of
Miami program at Melreese with the wellknown DeLuccas – father Charlie Jr. and
son Charlie III – along with many others
teaching them not only golf but also how
to be good people.
Velez and Compton both grew up under the nurturing environment of the DeLuccas and The First Tee, and they feel the
least they can do is give back by treating
and helping kids the way they were treated
and helped not too many years ago.
In addition, Compton, with his wellknown story of receiving heart transplants
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mediately thereafter and worked for months
on end to have the greens, fairways and tees
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While re-grassing the course was first
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green’s complex was re-shaped. At the Par
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The attributes that make St. James a fun
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the Treasure Coast.
St. James has many of the attributes
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trees, scattered odd bumps and mounds
around, devilish bunkers and, when the
wind blows, it truly feels like a links course.
The course, designed by Warren Henderson, rewards shot value and a strong mental
approach. With a couple of short par-4s and
an easily reachable-in-two par-5, golfers are
forced to think about how they will play the
hole when they step onto the tee box. The
areas around the greens are built and maintained to give the player a choice of several
shots. You can flop or lob a shot in, you can
bounce a shot in, or as one of my playing
partners did a few times, you can roll the
ball 50 yards or more to the green.
The par 72 course features four sets of
tees measuring from 4,757 to 6,672 yards.
Golfers of any ability are able to find a set of
tees to challenge his or her game. There are
few forced carries from the more forward
tees, and I have found St. James to be a
great place for the entire family to play. The
young golfer or the beginner will welcome
the expansive fairways and short rough.
The better players will be challenged by the
bunkers, the wind, the undulating greens
and making sure to place shots at the best
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If you’d like to get a feel for a links-style
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One for the Boys and the Girls
On Sept. 12, the Boys and Girls Club of
St. Lucie County held its 19th Annual Chuck
Hill Golf Classic at Club Med Sandpiper.
The tournament is named in honor of
founding principal Chuck Hill. Joined by
then mayor Bob Minsky, 20 years ago the
pair moved from a dream to a reality. To
raise operating funds that critical first year,
Hill used his connections with local NFL
football star Ryan McNeil.
The first tournament involved more
than 25 NFL players, with all of them not
only playing but also sponsoring a skills
clinic for boys and girls. Over the past 19
years, the Classic has traveled throughout
the county from one course to another as a
way of reflecting the 16 Boys & Girls Club
locations that serve the county.
To fully appreciate what the Boys & Girls
Club does for the youth of St. Lucie County,
you need to realize its impact. The Club has
more than 3,200 members, with a 51-49 split.
The Club is not just about handing the
kids a bat or ball and telling them to occupy themselves and stay out of trouble. It
teaches leadership, career exploration, academic success, peer engagement, community involvement, healthy habits, life skills,
fine arts and physical activity.
The boys and girls on the club use the
programs offered to make their lives better. Nearly 2,500 of the members received
homework assistance. Those participating
in prevention programs totals more than
1,300. A full third of the members come
from a single-parent homes. The Club helps
to give them balanced guidance and input
from both father figures and mother figures.
Boys & Girls Club programs save taxpayers more than $9,000 for every student
not held back a grade, and a cost avoidance
of $5,000 for every youth diverted from
criminal activities.
In addition to the positive steps taken
in helping its members academically, the
Club has seen 97 percent of its members
abstain from smoking, and there have been
no teenage pregnancies.
All of this comes with a cost. While
many volunteer their time, there are still
costs associated with running 16 locations.
This is where the Chuck Hill Golf Classic
comes in. It’s the largest fund-raiser for the
organization.
While my team struggled to post a score
nearly good enough to smell the podium,
we had a great time. We made some birdies, enjoyed a great feast after and got to
see first-hand the impact of the club on the
young men and women of St. Lucie County.
The tournament may be over, but next
year’s event, the 20th annual, is already being planned. The Boys & Girls Club of St.
Lucie County needs our help to continue
to provide life-changing experiences to the
youth of our community. Some day these
same youth will be our leaders. Let’s help
them be the best leaders possible.
To find out more, write to Charles Cuomo at ccuomo550@hotmail.com or call
(772) 924-6823.
James Stammer has covered golf for nearly
20 years. If you have an item for the Treasure
Coast notebook, please write him at stammergolf@yahoo.com.
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Burdage, Torres win top golf honors
Parkland’s Ryan Torres and Tamarac’s Jillian Bourdage walked away with top honors
this summer in the Junior Golf Association
of Broward County’s summer program.
Torres, 18, a freshman at Johnson &
Wales University in
Miami, won the Julius
Boros Award for the
lowest stroke average
among the boys’ golfers
in the championship
flight. Bourdage, 13,
won her second consecutive Carol Mann
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Award for the lowest
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strong average among
the girls’ golfers in the championship flight.
Torres won three events, tied for second
in two and was tied for fourth in another
event during the summer. He averaged 73
for 18 holes this summer, which was a full
four shots better than his nearest competitor. It was a far cry from his efforts in the
JGA of Broward last summer where he averaged 82.7 for 18-holes.
“Last year I was a little disappointed because I just knew that wasn’t my golf,” Torres said. “Something clicked for me that if
you want to play serious golf in the future,
you have to really work on your game and
I spent multiple hours each day working on
my game.”
“I just wanted to get that award. That was
just a goal of mine. I will remember playing
a lot of good golf with a lot of good people
and winning that award. I was determined
to have the low score and I felt this was my
year after a pretty solid start with a 69 in my
first tournament.”
Bourdage, 13, won her second consecutive Carol Mann Award, which goes to the
girls’ golfer who has the lowest stroke average for the summer in the JGA of Broward.
“I went in thinking I had a chance to win
again, but I knew I still had to prove my game,”
said Bourdage, an eighth-grader at American Heritage School in Plantation. “I had to
still play well and shoot those good rounds. I
knew it wasn’t in the bag. I knew I had to work
for it. I did work for it. Very hard.”
Bourdage, who became the youngest
winner of the Carol Mann Award last year,
won the first three tournaments of the summer and finished second twice before winning the three-day event for the second consecutive year at 71-73-77–221.
“I had minor problems in my game and
didn’t have a win until that last tournament,”
Bourdage said. “It felt really good to win that
last tournament. It was good to comeback
in that last tournament and shoot those low
rounds and have fun.”
The Junior Golf Association of Broward
also presented $18,000 in scholarships this
year ranging from $1,000 to $1,500. The
JGA has awarded more than $410,000 in
scholarships since its inception 47 years ago.
Patrick Pinkney, 5, of Fort Lauderdale
and Nicholas Badyna, 17, of Pembroke Pines,
both won the President award’s, which is presented to a junior the spirit of JGA.
Tamarac’s Jillian Bourdage won her second
consecutive Carol Mann Award from the
Junior Golf Association of Broward County.
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First Tee holds veterans event
The First Tee of Broward has branched
out, so what better way to introduce golf but
to the branches of the military.
The First Tee of Broward recently held
its inaugural Veterans Golf Program Open
House at Plantation Preserve Golf Course &
Club. Jack Bloomfield, director of operations
for The First Tee of Broward said only 20 of
180 chapters also have programs for veterans.
The nine men and women in attendance
received two hours of free golf instruction
and signed up for a six-week program that
begins Oct. 3 and is sponsored by The First
Tee of Broward and Mission United, a United Way program that provides numerous
services for veterans.
Jonathan Davidson, the mentor coordinator for Mission United, said the organization
supports veterans by linking them with all
types of free or discounted services, including legal, educational and health-related.
“The First Tee Broward is a community
partner with Mission United and supports
local veterans learning about golf, experiencing the outdoors and enjoying some
exercise and fellowship with their peers and
professional coaches,” Davidson said. “The
orientation and participation throughout
the golf program is free for veterans. PGA
professionals and First Tee coaches provided expert instruction on the game, the
use of adaptive equipment when necessary,
and were paired with our heroes by ability
to create an inclusive environment for our
heroes to stay in the game.”
For more information on the First Tee of
Broward, visit its website at www.thefirstteebroward.org.
Colony West Women Start Season
The Colony West Women’s Golf Group
kicked off its fourth season Oct. 1.
Many ladies from various Tuesday women’s leagues enjoy the opportunity to play
games in flights on Thursdays.
There are no membership fees and generally a 9 a.m. shotgun start (8:30 start for
the month of October only) and official
handicaps are required.
The CWWGG will once again present
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the fourth annual Women’s Invitational Golf
Tournament to benefit Women In DistressBroward on March 24, 2016 at the Colony
West Champion Course.
For more information and to sign up to
play each week before Monday 8 p.m., send
e-mail to nataleecwwg@gmail.com.
CC of Coral Springs project progressing
Bill Friesing said the Country Club of
Coral Springs is expected to open Dec. 1
with 15 holes. He said irrigation issues will
delay the completion of holes, 8, 9 and 18,
and it is expected those should be completed by Feb. 1.
“We will open on Dec. 1 with 15 holes
and a temporary clubhouse,” said Friesing,
59, of Boca Raton, who has served as general manager and director of golf at CC of
Coral Springs since 2011. “We probably
won’t build the main clubhouse for another
two years because we are tying that into the
real estate development.”
Friesing said they are putting in new
USGA spec greens and have already reconfigured four of the holes. The plans are to
reconfigure six holes on the course.
“Two of the three holes that we can’t
open are going to be reconfigured,” Friesing
said. The course closed in April and has
been undergoing its facelift ever since. “The
excavation of the lakes goes right through
those three holes, so until that’s done, we
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can’t finish those holes.”
“When we began the project, we had to fill
in two lakes,” Friesing added. “We filled in an
acre-and-a-half of lakes for parking. South
Florida Water Management required us to
give them three acres of lakes back on the golf
course. That’s what is taking so long. The excavation of those lakes is incredibly tedious.”
Friesing said the course is coming along.
They have added 16 new bunkers, some near
the greens and some on the fairways. There
are five new tee boxes and the course will
now be a par-72 as the sixth hole, formerly
a 420-yard par-4, will be a 580-yard par-5.
“It looks spectacular,” Friesing said. “It
is going to be one of the best in Broward
County again. We put in new champion
greens and every one, exclusive of the ones
that haven’t been done yet are totally contoured differently. When people come back,
they are not even going to recognize them.
We are very excited.”
The real estate project is also progressing and Friesing believes the first building
would be built in September 2016. Friesing
has hired the Kansas-based Creative Golf
Marketing to help them with future marketing of the club and has begun giving tours
of the current facility. Friesing compares his
giddiness to being a “kid in a candy store.”
“The buzz that I am hearing is incredible,” Friesing said. “People are coming from
all over the place and when I give them a
tour on a golf cart all they can say is, ‘Wow!’”
The cost for the project is $2.5 million in
renovations and a $2 million clubhouse.
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CC of Coral Springs has partnered with a
developer to build 250 residential units within seven, five-story buildings in addition to
the 158-acre course being redesigned.
The partnership between the club and
Bainbridge Communities Acquisition III
is expected to take 18 months for the residential construction. The course originally
opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1969.
“We cut the greens for the first time (in
mid-September) and they look incredible,”
Friesing said. “We walk-mowed them. All
of the greens and tees will be walk-mowed.”
With the excavation of the lakes, Friesing
said they are going to move and mound
38,000 cubic yards of soil.
“There are going to places where you will
be right in front of the green and not be able
to see the pin, other than maybe the flag,”
Friesing said. “We won’t do anything temporary for the three holes. There will be no
green. We have almost three months (until
around February) without the three holes.
We will figure it out. Maybe the last three
holes you play will be from a different tee to
give it a different look.”
Charity events slated
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The First Tee of Broward will host its
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For more information, visit www.daviegolf.net or call (954) 797-4653.
Gary Curreri is a freelance writer based
in South Florida. If you have an item for
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Quail Ridge finds its man in Brosnihan
Palm Beach Notes from page 10
at the St. Andrews Country Club in Boca
Raton exceeded expectations.
“It was so good,” said Serino, a teaching
pro at the Sherbrooke Golf & Country Club
in Lake Worth, who served as tournament
director.
The tournament is named after Hall of
Fame golf instructor Bob Toski and was
for boys and girls ages 7-18. “I have never
seen a club treat these kids the way this club
treated them. It was awesome. It was the
best one we have had so far.”
There were a total of 69 juniors and a
total of $9,000 in scholarship money was
handed out.
“St. Andrews gave us the course and the
food for free and by doing that we could
give more money in the kid’s scholarships,”
Serino said. “Last year we gave out $1,500
to both the boys and girls scholarship winners and this year the amount was $4,500.
That is a huge jump and the winners were
both shocked.”
Boynton Beach’s Alexa Hammer and
Palmetto Bay’s David Burnham, graduating seniors, each earned $4,500 in scholarship money.
Serino hopes that someday that number
would top $40,000. The total scholarships
awarded last year were $1,500 each to the
boys and girls recipients.
Boynton Beach’s Nick Staub was the
overall winner boys’ winner. Staub, 12, who
plays out of the Wycliffe Golf & Country
Club in Wellington, carded 67, while the
girls overall winner was Lake Worth’s Alexa
Pano, 11, who shot 76.
Each received crystal replicas of Toski’s
trophy for winning the George S. May
World Championship of Golf in 1954.
For the second consecutive year, Manuela Herrera was the winner of closest to the
pin Par 3 contest, which earned her two
tickets to The Masters.
Brosnihan named director of golf
When Quail Ridge Country Club in
Boynton Beach began its search for a new
Director of Golf, it didn’t have to look far.
It tabbed Daniel Brosnihan III as the
new Director of Golf and Michael Korenoski as the new Head
Professional.
The duo has worked
a combined 31 years at
Quail Ridge, recognized as one of the top
golfing communities
in the United States.
Brosnihan
succeeds for Charlie
Daniel
Brosnihan III Bowie, who has run
Quail Ridge’s golf operation since 1984. Brosnihan becomes the
third director of golf in Quail Ridge’s 41year history.
Brian Sutherland, chairman of Quail
Ridge’s search committee and a vice-president at the club, said the committee explored hiring someone from outside, but
Brosnihan and Korenoski proved to be the
perfect fit for Quail Ridge.
“The Committee felt that Dan and Mike
both exemplified the personal qualities,
attitude and strong work ethic that Quail
Ridge members were accustomed to with
the excellent performance of the golf operation established by Charlie Bowie,”
Sutherland said. “Countless members have
supported our decision by their comments
both verbally and through e-mails.”
Brosnihan has been at Quail Ridge since
1999, serving as head professional for the
past 10 years.
“I am extremely blessed to be the next
director of golf at Quail Ridge,” Brosnihan
said. “Having learned under the tutelage of
Charlie Bowie, I will continue the successes
and honor the history and tradition associated with Quail Ridge.”
Korenoski joined Quail Ridge’s staff in
2000 and was named assistant head professional in 2005.
He was promoted to first assistant professional in 2007 and co-head professional
in 2014.
Quail Ridge recently announced it will
be building a new $22 million clubhouse
next year with completion expected by October 2017.
For more information on the club, visit
www.quailridgecc.com.
Nardone defends
Florida State Junior title
For the second year in a row, Michael
Nardone from West Palm Beach successfully defended his title as the Florida State
Junior Golf Champion in the U.S. Kids Golf
Boys 7-and-under division.
Nardone won his second Florida State
Championship on Walt Disney World’s
Oak Trail Course.
He has played in more than 125 tournaments and has more than 40 wins throughout the country. He is one of the top junior
golfers for his age.
Prior to the state championship, he also
won the Doral Publix Junior Golf Championship in Miami, the Desert Shootout Junior Golf Championship in Phoenix, Ariz.,
and defended his title in Austin, Texas, as
the Texas Open champion.
Moman gets first ace
Madison Moman of Palm Beach Gardens recently earned her first hole-in-one
at the Okeeheelee Golf Course in West
Palm Beach.
The 8-year-old, competing in a JGFA
tournament at Okeeheelee, won her age division (girls 7-9) with a score of 37. On the
ace, she used a 3-wood and connected from
101 yards on the eighth hole on the Osprey
Pointe Course.
Pano qualifies
Pano is heading back to Augusta National Golf Club for the finals of the Drive,
Chip & Putt Championship.
Pano, who competed in the finals last
year, had the top score recently by one
point in the girls’ 10-11 division at the regional qualifier at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte
Vedra Beach.
She will compete the Sunday before the
2016 Masters.
Gary Curreri is a freelance writer in based
South Florida. If you have an item for
the Broward notebook, write to him at
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“I was a golf pro in Connecticut for over
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with Nick Pisano, and Ed Luczkowski purchased the course a little over a year ago.
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Grillo said there were dirt fairways, dirt
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“We are cutting grass, aerifying, fertilizing … we are doing it all,” Grillo added.
“Everybody is telling us how beautiful it
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and right now it is an 8.”
To reach a 10, they will “need another
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They did add a 4,000-square foot practice
putting green and added new carts.
“They probably had a 300-square foot
putting green,” said Grillo, who estimates
the costs of the renovations and improvements are around $350,000.
He said it would have been more, however the partners are doing a lot of the work
based on their skills. Pisano and Luczkowski have contracting backgrounds. “We
brought it back to life, that’s for sure.”
From the back tees, the 18-hole course
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“It is the toughest 5,900 yards you would
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Compton and Velez aim to take on the world
Miami-Dade Notes from page 11
at ages 12 and 28, gives back with his annual tournament at Melreese to benefit
transplant research.
Helping kids has been going on for a
long time for Velez and Compton, but the
new twist for Velez is the job of caddying
for Compton.
“It’s a good team,” Compton said, explaining how his former caddie had to
leave because of health issues. “We’ve done
well together.
“I needed somebody I could take on the
road with me and have fun with and rely
upon, and that was Carlos,” Compton said.
In an interview after making his first PGA
Tour hole-in-one in this year’s Canadian
Open, Compton mentioned Velez, not
calling him by name or as his caddie, but
simply referring to him as “my friend.”
The bond had been formed.
Velez has been having a great time
in his new job slinging Compton’s bag
over his shoulder, but realizes, “I’m fairly
new to this job, but I think I have gained
more and more of Erik’s trust. He knows
I’ve been out there and played professional golf.
“I’m not going to be the know-it-all,”
he continued. “I want to wait until he tells
me what he wants. It’s a learning process. I
have to think in his eyes, not in my eyes.”
Time is becoming a factor, but Velez
has not totally given up on the possibility
and dream of joining Compton as a PGA
player. After all, several years back, Velez
and Compton were paired in a round of
the Nationwide Tour’s (now Web.com
Tour) Miccosukee Championship, an
event that no longer exists.
Growing up in Miami, Velez did not
have lots of money, and he credits his father for giving him the opportunity to
play golf. “I could not afford to play much
golf,” he said, “but my dad did everything
so I could. He delivered pizzas, he worked
night security shifts at the airport. He
plain and simple did everything.”
The caddying gig with Compton is giving Velez an upfront view of life on the
PGA Tour.
In the third round of this year’s Canadian Open, Compton was near the lead and
was paired with Jason Day, who recently
had a stint as the world’s No. 1 player.
“The crowds were huge,” Velez said,
“but what was cool was that I wasn’t
nervous.”
So, Carlos, with Compton at center stage
hitting the shots while you stand in the
background with the bag, is there any envy?
“No,” Velez said definitively, “He knows
I’m a big fan of his and that I’m doing everything I can to help him.
“It has been fun – lots of fun.”
Bill Van Smith directed South Florida
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Atlantis CC
190 Atlantis Blvd.
(561) 965-7700
AVENTURA
Sports Authority
18499 Biscayne Blvd.
(305) 682-0717
BELLE GLADE
Sugarcane Golf Club
12619 W. Canal St. N
(561) 996-6605
BOCA RATON
Birdie Golf Ball Co.
7166 Barracasa Way
(561) 826-0254
Boca Dunes CC
1400 Country Club Dr.
(561) 451-1600
Boca Greens CC
19642 Trophy Dr.
(561) 852-8800
Boca Raton Municipal
8111 Golf Course Rd.
(561) 367-7029
Boca Raton Resort & CC
17751 Boca Club Blvd.
(561) 447-3520
Don Law Imp. Center
12551 Glades Road
(561) 451-1128
GolfSmith
20415 State Road 7
(561) 483-9226
GolfTec
20415 State Road 7
(561) 483-4180
NuGolf
4800 N. Federal Hwy.
(855) 645-4653
Ocean Breeze Golf & CC
5800 N.W. 2nd Ave.
(561) 994-0400
Osprey Point GC
12551 Glades Road
(561) 482-2868
Palm Beach Golf Center
3698 N. Federal Hwy.
(561) 395-1305
Pure Performance Golf Lab
1181 S. Rogers Circle
Suite 32
561-465-5586
Red Reef Park Executive
1221 N. Ocean Blvd.
(561) 391-5014
Southwinds Golf Course
19557 Lyons Rd.
(561) 483-1305
Sports Authority
20851 State Rd. 7
(561) 488-5754
BOYNTON BEACH
Cypress Creek CC
9400 Military Trail
(561) 732-4202
Indian Spring CC
11501 El Clair Rnch Rd
(561) 738-3047
Moore’s Golf Shoes
3301 W. Boynton Bch.
Blvd.
(561) 369-8032
The Links at Boynton
Beach
8020 Jog Rd.
(561) 742-6500
Putter Around II
12250 Westchester
Club Dr.
(561) 752-0744
Westchester CC
12250 Westchester
Club Dr.
(561) 734-6300
COCONUT CREEK
Toski-Battersby Center
1000 Coconut Crk Blvd.
(954) 975-2045
Putter Around Club
Repair
1000 Coconut Crk Blvd.
(954) 917-1011
COOPER CITY
Cooper Colony CC
5050 S.W. 90th Ave.
(954) 434-2181
CORAL GABLES
Biltmore GC
1200 Anastasia Ave.
(305) 460-5364
Granada GC
2001 Granada Blvd.
(305) 460-5367
CORAL SPRINGS
CC of Coral Springs
10800 W. Sample Rd.
(954) 753-2930
Heron Bay GC
11801 Heron Bay Blvd.
(954) 796-2000
DAVIE
Davie GCC
8201 S.W. 24th St.
(954) 797-4653
DEERFIELD BEACH
Crystal Lake CC
3800 Crystal Lake Dr.
(954) 943-2902
Deer Creek GC
2801 Country Club Blvd.
(954) 421-5550
Sports Authority
3810 W. Hillsboro Blvd.
(954) 426-4360
DELRAY BEACH
Birdie Golf Ball Co.
14806 Military Trail
(561) 496-7666
Delray Beach GC
2200 Highland Ave.
(561) 243-7380
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Kings Point Par 3
6900A Tuscany Lane
(561) 499-0140
Kings Point Executive
6561 Flanders Way
(561) 499-7840
Lakeview GC
1200 Dover Rd.
(561) 498-3229
Marina Lakes GC
14800 Cumberland Dr.
(561) 499-2424
PGA Tour Superstore
1040 Linton Blvd.
(561) 214-7000
Polo Trace GC
13479 Polo Trace Dr.
(561) 495-5300
Sherwood Park GC
170 Sherwood Forest Dr.
(561) 499-3559
Villa Del Ray GC
6200 Via Delray
(561) 498-1444
FORT LAUDERDALE
Edwin Watts
5600 N. Federal Hwy.
(954) 771-3256
Grande Oaks Academy
3201 W. Rolling Hills Cir.
(954) 423-0897
Sports Authority
1901 N. US 1
(954) 568-6226
Woodlands CC
4600 Woodlands Blvd.
(954)731-2500
GREENACRES
Birdie Golf Ball Co.
3947 S. Jog Road
(561) 966-1717
HALLANDALE BEACH
Diplomat GC
501 Diplomat Parkway
(954) 883-4444
Aqua Golf
2250 S. Park Rd.
(954) 893-7767
HIALEAH
Sports Authority
3895 W. 20th. Ave
(305) 826-5599
HOBE SOUND
Heritage Ridge GC
6510 SE Heritage Blvd.
(772) 546-2800
Lost Lake GC
8310 SE Fazio Drive
(772) 220-6666
HOLLYWOOD
Club at Emerald Hills
4100 N. Hills Dr.
(954) 961-4000
Eco Grande GC
1451 Taft St.
(954) 922-8755
Golfsmith
3300 Oakwood Blvd.
(954) 923-3418
GolfTec (inside
Golfsmith)
3300 Oakwood Blvd.
(954) 920-6811
Hillcrest GC
4600 Hillcrest Dr.
(954) 983-3142
Hollywood Beach Resort
1650 Johnson St.
(954) 927-1751
Orangebrook CC
400 Entrada Dr.
(954) 967-4653
HOMESTEAD
Redland GCC
24451 S.W. 177th Ave.
(305) 247-8503
INDIANTOWN
Indianwood GCC
14007 SW Golf Club Dr.
(888) 597-3794
JENSEN BEACH
Eagle Marsh GC
3869 NW Royal Oak
Drive
(772) 692-3322
Sports Authority
3101 N.W. Federal Hwy.
(772) 692-1771
JUPITER
Abacoa GC
105 Barbados Dr.
(561) 622-0036
GolfGym Academy
2885 Jupiter Park Dr.,
Ste. 300
(561) 741-3401
Jupiter Dunes GC
401 N. A1A
(561) 746-6654
Jupiter Country Club
300 Marsala Court
(561) 746-3950
The Golf Club of Jupiter
1800 S. Central Blvd.
(561) 747-6262
The Old Club
1557 Cypress Drive
Ste. 1
(561) 401-9407
KEY BISCAYNE
Crandon Golf
6700 Crandon Blvd.
(305) 361-9129
LAKE PARK
Golf Around the World
1396 N. Killian Dr.,
Ste. B
(561) 848-8896
LAKE WORTH
Atlantic National GC
6400 Grand Lacuna Blvd.
(561) 969-6600
Forest Oaks GC
144 Lucerne Lks. Blvd. N.
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4754 S. Congress Ave.
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Lake Worth Municipal
One 7th Ave. N.
(561) 582-9713
Park Ridge Golf Course
9191 Lantana Rd.
(561) 966-7044
Palm Beach National CC
7500 St. Andrews Rd.
(561) 965-3381
Poinciana Golf Club
3536 Via Poinciana Dr.
(561) 439-4721
Winston Trails GC
6101 Winston Trails
Blvd.
(561) 439-3700
LAUDERHILL
Inverrary CC
3840 Inverrary Blvd.
(954) 733-7550
Lauderhill GC
4141 NW. 16th St.
(954) 730-2990
MARGATE
A-Swing Golf Academy
3011 Rock Island Rd.
(954) 873-3781
Birdie Golf Ball Co.
208 Margate Court
(954) 973-2741
Carolina CC
3011 Rock Island Rd.
(954) 753-4000
Margate Executive GC
7870 W. Margate Blvd.
(954) 971-0807
Oriole GC
8000 W. Margate Blvd.
(954) 972-8140
MIAMI
Alf’s Golf
n 2600 NW. 87th Ave.
(305) 470-0032
n 15369 S. Dixie Hwy.
(305) 378-6086
Costa Del Sol GC
100 Costa Del Sol Blvd.
(305) 592-3300
Country Club of Miami
6801 Miami Gardens Dr.
(305) 829-8456
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
4400 NW. 87th Ave.
(305) 592-2000
Edwin Watts
8484 N.W. 36th St.,
Ste. 200
(305) 591-1220
Int’l Links of Miami
1802 N.W. 37th Ave.
(305) 633-4583
Killian Greens GC
9980 S.W. 104th St.
(305) 271-0917
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(305) 371-4554
Miccosukee Golf Club
6401 Kendale Lakes Dr.
(305) 382-3930
Palm Beach Golf Center
147910 Biscayne Blvd.
(305) 949-7030
Palmetto Golf Course
9300 SW 152nd St.
(305) 238-2922
Planet Golf
7045 SW 87th Ave.
(305) 275-9070
Sports Authority
10688 NW. 12th St.
(305) 591-0622
MIAMI BEACH
Alf’s Golf
524 Arthur Godfrey
Road
(305) 673-6568
Miami Beach GC
2301 Alton Road
(305) 532-3350
Normandy Shores GC
2401 Biarritz Dr.
(305) 868-6502
MIAMI LAKES
Shula’s GC
7601 Miami Lakes Dr.
(800) 247-4852
MIAMI SHORES
Miami Shores CC
10000 Biscayne Blvd.
(305) 795-2360
NORTH MIAMI BEACH
Edwin Watts
15100 N. Biscayne Blvd.
(305) 944-2925
Greynolds Park GC
17530 W. Dixie Hwy.
(305) 949-1741
NORTH PALM BEACH
Club Masters
1201 U.S. Hwy. 1, Ste. 1
(561) 622-9445
North Palm Beach CC
951 U.S. Hwy. 1
(561) 691-3433
PALM BEACH
Palm Beach Par 3 GC
2345 S. Ocean Blvd.
(561) 547-0598
PALM BEACH GARDENS
Edwin Watts
3889 Northlake Blvd.
(561) 625-6430
Golfsmith
11701 Lake Victoria
Gardens, Suite 1116
(561) 616-4150
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Bruce Bard
bruce@teetimesnews.com
(954) 658-7660
GolfTec (inside
Golfsmith)
11701 Lake Victoria
Gardens, Suite 1116
(561) 683-3667
Palm Beach Gardens GC
11401 Northlake Blvd.
(561) 626-7888
Palm Beach Golf Center
7700 N Military Trail
(561) 842-7100
PGA National
400 Ave. of the
Champions
(561) 627-1800
Rick’s Golf Shop
8091 N Military Trail
(561) 627-0640
Sports Authority
3350 Northlake Blvd.
(561) 622-7203
The Honda Classic
3300 PGA Blvd, Ste. 800
(561) 799-4624
PALM CITY
Hammock Creek GC
2400 Golden Bear Way
(772) 220-2599
Palm Cove GYC
2363 SW Carriage Hill
Terr.
(772) 287-5605
PEMBROKE PINES
All Golf
950 Flamingo Rd.
(954) 441-1333
Flamingo Lakes Golf
701 S.W. Flamingo
W. Dr.
(954) 435-6110
Golfsmith
12151 Pines Blvd
(954) 538-3772
Golftec
12151 Pines Blvd
(954) 361-0868
Golf Galaxy
14530 SW. 2nd St.
(954) 342-1000
Grand Palms Golf Resort
110 Grand Palms Dr.
(954) 437-3334
Pembroke Lakes GC
10500 Taft St.
(954) 431-4144
Sports Authority
11140 Pines Blvd.
(954) 447-9666
PLANTATION
Edwin Watts
12001 W. Sunrise Blvd.
(954) 916-6565
Jacaranda GC
9200 W. Broward Blvd.
(954) 472-5836
Plantation Preserve Golf
7050 W. Broward Blvd.
(954) 585-5020
DESIGN DIRECTOR
Reese Wallace
reese@reesewallace.com
POMPANO BEACH
Conte’s Palm-Aire Acad.
3701 Oaks Clubhouse Dr.
(954) 971-7867
Mallard Golf Shop
2900 W. Sample Road
(954) 971-5340
Palm-Aire GC
2600 Palm-Aire Dr. N.
(954) 975-6244
Pompano Beach GC
1101 N. Federal Hwy.
(954) 781-0426
PORT ST. LUCIE
PGA Village
1916 Perfect Dr.
(800) 800-4653
PGA Center for Learning
and Performance
8565 Commerce Ctr. Dr.
(772) 468-7686
Saints GC
2601 S.E. Morningside
Blvd.
(772) 398-2901
Sandpiper GC
4500 SE Pine Valley St.
(772) 337-6638
Savanna Club GC
3490 Crabapple Drive
(772) 879-1316
Sports Authority
10648 S.W. Village
Pkwy.
(772) 345-2600
St. James GC
5613 N.W. St. James Dr.
(772) 336-4653
ROYAL PALM BEACH
The Village Golf Club
122 Country Club Dr.
(561) 793-1400
STUART
Champions Club
3400 SE Summerfield
Way
(772) 283-1500
Florida Club
1380 SW Kanner Hwy.
(772) 287-3680
Golf Gear
1865 S Federal Hwy.
(772) 288-1310
Golfers Outlet
2767 NW Federal Hwy.
(772) 692-4286
Grand Island Ath. Club
3216 SE Federal Hwy.
(772) 287-0222
Martin County GCC
2000 SE St. Lucie Blvd.
(772) 287-3747
Miles Grant CC
5105 SE Miles Grant Road
(772) 286-2220
North River GC
1827 NW Pine Lakes Dr.
(772) 692-0346
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Christine Abbott
Abbott Designs
abbottdesigns@gmail.com
Play It Again Sports
3351 SE Federal Hwy.
(772) 286-9552
Seventy-six Golf World
6801 S Kanner Hwy.
(772) 220-7676
SUNRISE
Springtree CC
8150 Springtree Dr.
(954) 572-2270
Sunrise CC
7400 NW 24th Place
(954) 742-4333
TAMARAC
Colony West
6800 N. Pine Island Rd.
(954) 718-7061
Golf Trader
8085 W. McNab Rd.
(954) 720-8290
Woodmont CC
7801 N.W. 80th Ave.
(954) 722-4300
WELLINGTON
Binks Forest GC
400 Binks Forest Dr.
(561) 333-5731
Kevin Perkins Golf
Academy
400 Binks Forest Drive
(561) 301-3783
Polo West Golf
2470 Greenview Cove Dr.
(561) 309-0572
WESTON
Bonaventure CC
200 Bonaventure Blvd.
(954) 389-2100
WEST PALM BEACH
Dick’s Sporting Goods
8821 Southern Blvd.
(561) 204-4133
Golf Oasis
8989 Okeechobee Blvd.,
No. 110
(561) 469-2716
Lone Pine Golf Club
6251 N. Military Trail
(561) 842-0480
Okeeheelee Golf Course
7715 Forest Hill Blvd.
(561) 964-4653
Madison Green GC
2001 Crestwood Blvd. N
(561) 784-5225
W. Palm Beach GC
7001 Parker Ave.
(561) 822-1591
CONTACT US
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