Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers Country Club

Fort Myers Country Club, a Donald Ross design that opened in 1917, with Bahia grass fairways and common Bermuda greens, was modernized and reopened in October 2014.  Steve Smyers and his chief design associate, Patrick Andrews, were charged with updating the classic Ross course for the City of Fort Myers, which operates the club as a municipal, daily-fee facility. 
"We approached this project as if Ross came back and designed a course on the same site", says Smyers.  "If Ross were alive today-given the modern playing equipment, turf grasses, maintenance practices and all other changes that have evolved in golf over the last hundred years-I am confident he would not design a golf course on this property exactly as he designed in the early 1900s".