Rebuild it and they will come .What was once old is new again as the trend for golf course renovations continues, Florida's St. Johns County serving as an example
In one of the nation’s fastest growing areas where developed green spaces are getting harder to unearth, St. Johns County, Florida, offers a microcosm for a national trend in golf course construction. The mantra should be: Renovate to motivate.In three locales in the Northeast Florida region, many course-adjacent residents and regional golfers are enduring the mostly summer-long, no-home course doldrums in 2022. The effect is akin to watching paint dry or water boil as they wait for growing grass to conclude at least a five-month golf respite. It’s as if a secret, massive landscaping venture is going on in backyards instead of golf carts passing. Heavy equipment trucks in tons of sand and dirt to rework greens, tees and fairways and work crews are insistent that curious foot traffic does not encroach on the work.That’s a small price to pay for what can be deemed a new course, indicated by the National Golf Foundation estimation that at least 80 percent of all golf course work nationally in the past five years has been renovations with a total investment of more than $9 billion.Read more:Rebuild it and they will come (firstcallgolf.com)