NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – There are rules in the game of golf: keep up with the pace of play, try to keep the ball in the fairway, and be kind to the course.<\/p>\n
Those rules were seemingly thrown out the window over the weekend after someone apparently went on a damaging joyride on the second hole green at The Club at Venetian Bay in New Smyrna Beach.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
New Smyrna Beach Police responded to the golf club on Sunday morning after employees found one of the greens significantly damaged.<\/p>\n
An employee noticed the damage around 6:30 a.m. and then contacted one of their supervisors, who then contacted police. Employees believe someone drove onto the course and did several “donuts,” creating deep tire tracks and sending dirt flying.<\/p>\n
General view of the damage on Hole 2 at The Club at Venetian Bay. Photo: New Smyrna Beach Police Department. <\/p>\n
The employee estimated some 7,000 square feet of turf was damaged. The Club estimated the cost of the repair to be more than $150,000, plus loss of revenue while the hole is repaired.<\/p>\n
Police said someone in the area reported seeing a pickup truck performing donuts on the course around 3:30 a.m., but was unable to provide a description because the vehicle was so far away.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the damage is asked to contact New Smyrba Beach Police at PDTIPS@cityofnsb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: The information is from the New Smyrna Police Department.<\/p>\n New Smyrna Beach<\/a>Florida Man<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – There are rules in the game of golf: keep up with the pace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,3475,29,11681,115,628,2261],"class_list":{"0":"post-12968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-man","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-new-smyrna","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-volusia-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}