By Dave Allen Earlier this year, Bonita National Golf & Country Club hired some temp laborers to retrieve as many floating golf balls as they could find along the banks of their aqua range—nearly one mile of shoreline (4,740 feet). They removed roughly 45,000 floater balls. “That’s a lot of golf balls,” says Simon Coulls, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2025
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By Dave Allen JP Shepherd picked one heck of a time to start his new job as Head Golf Professional at Bonita National Golf & Country Club. One month after leaving Alabama for Southwest Florida, Hurricane Ian came ashore just northwest of Bonita Springs, pounding the club with sustained winds of 150-plus miles per hour […]
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By Dave Allen Like most new residential communities, The Cottages at Cypress Cay has a swimming pool, gym, 24-hour clubhouse and dog park. But what clearly separates this resort-style apartment community in Lutz, Fla., from others is what’s floating in the pond by their amenity center—two floating “chipping” greens. And as this video details, the […]
