User Reviews
for Bonaventure Country Club, USA
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Original version
...pleasant reunion...
Reviewed March 13, 2024
...after almost 30 years...
...we lived in the resort back then as the review below shows.
Now we have played a round here again.
We know the course designer Joe Lee very well and we value his work very much. He built more than 70 courses in Florida and 30 in Georgia.
Joe Lee (1921-2003) from Florida is a very renowned golf course architect who is hardly known to the wider golf scene, but he has built or renovated more than 250 courses worldwide.
He worked with the famous Dick Wilson - later for him. Lee was surprisingly anonymous for his significant work until the death of Dick Wilson in 1965.
The creation of five top courses long used by the US PGA Tour - Blue Monster (Doral Miami) and Bay Hill (Orlando), which was purchased by Arnold Palmer in 1976, in Florida; LaCosta (Carslbad Callfornia);
Cog Hill (Chicago) and Warwick Hills (Detroit) are thanks to his work.
His philosophy: "The golfers want challenges, but they want fair ones"
A quote from him: "I don't think there should be any tricks on a golf course"
The highest honors of Jack Niklaus: "Joe Lee never built a bad golf course"
Even today, Gentlemen Joe Lee is anonymous; there is very little literature about him.
We really like the course, nine holes have water involved - sideways or frontally. There is no shortage of bunkers, many that are perfectly placed are easy to play. We liked the greens, some of them were very tricky.
The course serves just over 350 meters of hole-back tees. The par 3s are rather moderate in length, but the six par 4s are really tricky.
The maintenance is worlds better than on our first visit!!!
Solid four stars.
The West Course no longer exists; houses dominate this area.
It was fun to refresh old memories, and the scores were also good.
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- Original version
One less...
Reviewed March 11, 2018
The billboard always screams when we drive west (Naples) on the IS75 - the Alligator Alley. It reminds us of an annoying stay in Florida.
We had booked a week at this resort, with the anticipation of two in-house golf courses.
The frustration started on the day of arrival.
In the age without GPS, we let the Rental Car employee mark the location on the map. He made that on the northern side of the IS75, where today is a RV area. For more than an hour we turned around in the dark until we found the exit and moved to the south side.
A promising driveway. In the middle of the road stood two sheriff cars, perfect who knows where we have to go!
The copilot and my wife got out to ask. They were rudely escorted by the sheriffs. We were in the midst of a criminal hunt. After two were handcuffed into the waiting cars, two sheriff cars accompanied us in the convoy to the hotel - what a service.
The beer at the bar tasted sosolala, several hours late, but the anticipation of the golf was great.
We played the first one, we played the second and we were only angry. So badly maintained places we have never had in Florida. The fairways a divot graveyard, not mowed for days, the greens also days ago last time, the bunker concrete desert.
In the shop and at the reception we were informed, a change of ownership is in progress. The old man did not want anymore, the new one could or did not want to.
We have all Teetimes deleted...
At home, it went on. A recalculation of more than $ 1000 fluttered into the house. We would have booked to old conditions no longer valid. Much time and correspondence was the result...
We wanted to know what it looks like today, after over 20 years around the resort. If it fits we play golf here.
The West Course has disappeared from the map - tradition, Fautainblue East and West, Calusa, as the fifth in Greater Miami - dominate heavy construction equipment and homes.
The courses of Charles Mahannah seem to have a short half-life, it is not the first to be dug up.
There was not much going on the East Course. The sight was not very inviting, we continue!
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