Renovations, Restorations & Revitalizations Lead Investment at Existing Facilities

In Hollister, California -- about 90 miles south of San Francisco headed toward the Monterey Peninsula -- San Juan Oaks Golf Club recently reopened for daily-fee play after a 2 1/2-year renovation. The intensive project was more than that, though. General Manager Manny Freitas fittingly describes it as a transformation that marks a "complete rebirth" of the course and facilities. The scope of the effort was significant: a regrassing of the entire 18-hole course, new teeing grounds for greater flexibility, a new pump station and irrigation system to prevent overwatering, new practice facilities, a completely remodeled and expanded clubhouse, and new infrastructure ...