Perhaps the condo owners would rather have beach front property instead of watching cart riding golfers ruin their view ...
The condo building WAS beachfront - just south of the 18th green. I don't know when it was built, but this massive building just ruined the visuals of the approach to the 18th green. Now it's surf-front property.
I was there in Nov '06 too. The ocean at that point had eaten the dunes up to the rough of the 18th fairway. When I came back in June '07 the dunes and rough were gone, and the 18th fairway dropped off 10 feet to the sand. I tried to cut my drive & hit it straight instead. It ran straight down the fairway about 210 yards and right off a cliff down to the beach. There was a work crew of guys trying to save the 18th green, but one of them mentioned they were just buying time.
That week when we were on the beach, there was a constant parade of dump trucks delivering huge sand bags to the north end of the island to try and halt the erosion. I've never been on a beach and had to tell my kids to watch out for the dump trucks.
You can't screw with Mother Nature.
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