Harris Golf has agreed to sell Boothbay Country Club to a group of investors headed by longtime club member James Reeves and veteran Harris Golf employee Clayton Longfellow. The sale price of $4.5 million was announced Oct. 14, at which point Reeves and Longfellow assumed immediate stewardship of the 300-member private club, located here in the heart Maine’s Mid-Coast.
The championship course at the Karnataka Golf Association in Bangalore, India, will be ready for play in November, after a two-year renovation project. The original Peter Thomson course has been redesigned by renowned architect Howard Swan and his Swan Golf Designs team and rebuilt completely to the most modern of standards and performance expectations. The 7100 yard par 72 layout will be unveiled with new greens, tees, bunkering, and irrigation system together with new grassing throughout.
Less than two months after opening the first nine golf holes in Central Vietnam, Montgomerie Links Vietnam has begun construction on the hole that will give the course a full and complete back nine: the par-4 17th. Designed by eight-time European Tour Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie, the first and still the only golf club in Central Vietnam launched stage one of operation Aug. 20, with an invitation-only event and nine-hole tournament.
Camp Creek and Shark’s Tooth Golf Clubs -- award-winning Tom Fazio and Greg Norman designs located in Northwest Florida – have been selected by the USGA and the Florida State Golf Association to host qualifiers for the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in 2009. On May 13 Camp Creek will welcome competitors to a U.S. Open local qualifier while Shark’s Tooth will host a U.S. Amateur sectional qualifier on August 10-11. The courses share a history of staging USGA events: Camp Creek hosted a U.S. Open qualifier in 2007 and U.S. Amateur qualifiers in 2006 and 2008. Shark’s Tooth was the site of U.S. Open qualifiers from 2003-06 and again in 2008. Additionally, Shark’s Tooth will host a local qualifier for the Florida Open on June 30.
The two championship, 18-hole golf courses at Mission Inn Resort & Club – El Campeón and Las Colinas – have recently received a four-star rating from Golf Digest. Both courses, located in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., will be included in the publication’s 2008-2009 edition of “Best Places to Play,” which rates nearly 60,000 courses in North America and the Caribbean.
Travel + Leisure Golf readers have recognized the Greg Norman-designed course at the Four Seasons Resort Great Exuma in the Bahamas as one of the top three Best Golf Courses in the Caribbean. The 5-year-old survey represents the preferences of passionate golf travelers who lead affluent, active lifestyles, and are in search of the very best the game has to offer.