Page 56 - April 2015 Life In Naples Magazine

A NEW GENERATION

OF EXTRAORDINARY IS UNVEILED…

BBay Colony Golf Club reveals a golf course restoration of historic proportion.
Bay Colony Golf Club this season celebrates the grand reopening of the par 72 18-hole
championship course after a monumental master restoration of the greens, tees, fairways, bunkers,
bulkheads and infrastructure.
Arguably the most comprehensive golf course restoration ever to be completed in just over
six months with a $7.7 million dollar budget, the Bay Colony Golf Course was completed this
past November within budget, without any assessment to members, and with a grand reopening
delivered in time for the launch of golf season in Naples.
The extraordinary achievement is earning word of mouth buzz all around town this season,
particularly because the Bay Colony Golf Course is in such spectacular condition.
Why is the Bay Colony Golf Club course restoration significant? After all, with so many
courses in Naples, it is commonplace to hear of a club closing for renovation of the greens, tee
boxes or fairways.
The greatest significance about the Bay Colony Golf Course restoration is, rather than a
“renovation” in piecemeal fashion, this was a restoration of the Bay Colony Golf Course in
its entirety. Nothing of this scope and magnitude has ever been completed before in the short
amount of time that it was accomplished within the budget that was allocated and achieved.
Not ever. Not anywhere. Not in the history of golf, to the best knowledge of any professional
involved in the project.
“Collectively, there was nearly 1000 years’ worth of experience between those associated with
this project and nobody can recall ever seeing anything like this ever being done before anywhere,”
reports Josh Levitre, Bay Colony Golf Club Superintendent.The Bay Colony Golf Course project
was one of massive proportion requiring Herculean efforts by an entire team of staff members,
crew, contractors and club members alike.

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