Well, I recently got back from a two week trip to one of my favorite places in the world...Walt Disney World. Even though I have read for months about the closing of Disney's Osprey Ridge and Eagle Pines courses it could not prepare me for what I saw. The wheels are in motion to convert the two courses into a Four Seasons Resort and even though Osprey is still open (still in great shape I might add) Eagle Pines is now a sad vacant course. You see Eagle Pines was one of the very first 18 hole golf courses that I ever played as a kid and make a point of it to play every year. All that is left as of now are fairways of weeds and brown areas which were once greens. I had to sneak on the course via the 5th hole to take a look for myself. It is a very sad sight to see a golf course just left to die. I am sure many of you share these same thoughts. I did get to play Osprey Ridge for one last time before they eventually close that and convert the property to the one 18 hole track. It is just a sign of the times...
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It's sad to see golf courses that have been abandoned and left to die. I was recently in Myrtle Beach, and there is a growing number of courses that have been sold to builders for future condominium and hotel resorts. Great courses that are now barren wastelands with weeds as high as trees and dirt filled bunkers. It's sad to see. I guess we can only hope that there will be new, better courses in their place one day...even if they're part of a mega resort.
I saw on your website that your like Osprey and Eagle. I group up playing there on our trips to Disney. I thought it was a joke that they shut it down in the middle of the night like that. I was down there during the PGA Show and was told it was open until 2009-2010. And that they were going to use the 1st hole on Eagle to replace the 18th of osprey when the construction starts. Is that still the case?
golf courses in this area is Aroeira da Club do Campo, home to two golf courses with 18 holes. The golf courses are part of a resort complex and accommodation of this kind that has become increasingly widespread in Portugal, located about half kilometer from the beach. After Aroeira is the golf course of 18 holes at Golf Country Club Quinta do Peru. The club do Montado Golf is also a good golf course in this area, the 18 holes in the shadow of Palmela Castle Hill.
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