Author Archives: Carrie Krentz

By Dave Allen On September 28th of last year, Hurricane Ian made landfall just northwest of Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach, Fla., as a high-end Category 4 storm, packing winds up to 160 miles per hour. Within 48 hours, Aqua Greens’ owner Matt Gault’s cell phone was ringing constantly. Gault didn’t need to see […]

By Dave Allen A few years ago, David Reasoner and his wife, Kerry, were driving around the Hudson Valley region in New York, looking for the perfect wedding venue that would one day serve as their full-time summer home. The long-time PGA Head Professional at The Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., Reasoner has dabbled […]

By Dave Allen They say “everything’s bigger in Texas.” So, when The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas, was announced as the new home of the Chevron Championship—the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year—a search immediately began to find something very large and unique to commemorate the tournament’s move to Southeast Texas. […]

By Dave Allen When Matt Gault bought Aqua Greens in 2002, one of his very first calls was to The Ocean Club Course at Hutchinson Island Beach Resort in Stuart, Fla. The 18-hole executive course was one of a few courses in South Florida to have an aqua range at the time, only they had […]

Go behind the scenes with Aqua Greens owner Matt Gault, and learn how he came up with the concept for the Simmons Bank Open floating guitar island green, the challenges they had making the green float, and how they were able to make it playable and receptive to shots.