{"id":321718,"date":"2026-06-27T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:32:30","slug":"harlem-heights-kids-tee-off-at-gulf-harbour-country-club-in-fort-myers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321718\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Heights kids tee off at Gulf Harbour Country Club in Fort Myers | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Two neighborhoods joined together through the game of golf.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Children in Lee County&#8217;s Harlem Heights community connected with the Gulf Harbour Yacht &amp; Country Club.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINK News sports reporter Lauren Halpern<\/a> shares how a day on the course looks to make a lasting impact.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Miguel is one of 10 children from the Harlem Heights community who are spending a day just minutes away at the Gulf Harbour Yacht &amp; Country Club. From fresh donuts and new hats to hopping on golf carts, learning how the greens are cared for, and taking his best swing, the 8-year-old said he&#8217;s getting better at it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I&#8217;m getting better at it,&#8221; Miguel said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The day didn&#8217;t happen by accident. It started with a founding member of Gulf Harbour who volunteers with The Heights Foundation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The fact that the children could have an experience that they normally wouldn&#8217;t have that&#8217;s in their neighborhood nearby, and hopefully inspire them to have opportunities for fun, for a career, for maybe a scholarship, and something that they could share with their families,&#8221; Debbe Weaver said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gulf Harbour embraced the idea, opening its doors for lessons from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=pga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PGA professionals and a look at life on the course.<\/a> Lonnie Eberhard, chief operating officer at Gulf Harbour Yacht &amp; Country Club, said it&#8217;s something they may or may not ever be exposed to in their lives, so it&#8217;s important that they&#8217;re having fun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As for the mission at The Heights Foundation, the lesson goes far beyond golf.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;These kids are going to remember this for their entire lives, and we actually had a handful of kids that said that they want to be in the golf industry when they get older,&#8221; Annie Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Campbell serves as development director at The Heights Foundation. The day brought together two communities through sport, creating memories and opening doors to new possibilities for the children involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Two neighborhoods joined together through the game of golf. Children in Lee County&#8217;s Harlem Heights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115,110],"class_list":["post-321718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321718","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=321718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}