The greens at Sara Bay Country Club are said to most closely resemble those at another great Donald Ross design, Pinehurst No. 2.
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The greens at Sara Bay Country Club are said to most closely resemble those at another great Donald Ross design, Pinehurst No. 2.
Sara Bay Country Club
The greens at Sara Bay Country Club are said to most closely resemble those at another great Donald Ross design, Pinehurst No. 2.
Founded in 1926, as Whitfield Estates Country Club, Sara Bay Country Club has flown under the radar for more than nine decades. Several unsympathetic renovations down the years erased much of the initial design intent.
In 2017, the club commissioned Kris Spence to restore the greens and bunkers which Donald Ross envisioned. Spence used Ross’ original hand drawings to painstakingly return each bunker and putting surface to the character intended. The work completed in 2018 and many commentators believe Sara Bay is now Florida’s truest Ross design.
Kris Spence clearly agrees: “The finished product is splendid, Donald Ross in all his charm. Say what you will about Seminole, but Sara Bay may be the most authentic Donald Ross design in the Sunshine State.”
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