The 2025 season was supposed to be a celebration for the new owners of North Shore Golf Club, who purchased the Central New York property two years ago, knowing the 9-hole golf course was set to turn 100 years old.
Unfortunately, after vandals destroyed the course last weekend, Robert Caione and his wife will be looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000 in repairs.
An ATV shredded a pair of holes on the course that sits roughly 45 minutes from Syracuse, just on the north shore of Oneida Lake.
“It’s a sad situation with tire tracks all around the back side of the green, two or three passes,” Caione said on a Facebook video. “It looks like they actually stopped and actually dug holes.”
According to a story at WSYR-9 in Syracuse, this marks the second time this summer someone has vandalized the property and the
Caione believes someone on an ATV damaged the course. He thinks it’s the same ATV caught on camera at a neighbor’s house the same night.
“It’s heartbreaking, we only have 9 holes and leagues, and this will take quite a bit of time to repair,” Caione said.
He also used footage from outside the course to catch who he believes to be the same vandal who had ripped through the property, leaving it damaged for the second time this year.
“My wife just paged through all the video and said, ‘Yup, we got him.’”
Caione said the course’s greens will take at least a year to recover fully, and the dry weather won’t help.
The owners are now offering a $2,000 reward to anyone who can provide information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: New York golf course vandalized for a second time this year