Vineyards Country Club in North Naples completed the redesign and renovation of its North Course, a championship 18-hole course originally designed by golf architect Mark McCumber. The project, which began in March, includes expanded yardage from the professional tees to bring the North Course to championship level, offering challenges with newly contoured fairways, larger greens and natural aesthetic elements, such as stone cap walls, wood bridges and indigenous South Florida landscaping. The entire course was returfed with Bimini Bermudagrass on tees, fairways and roughs, complemented by TifEagle greens. Bunkers were refurbished with Par Angle White sand, while advanced drainage systems and a new Toro irrigation system improve water efficiency and course durability. This follows the transformation of the community’s South Course, completed in December 2023.
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