{"id":247045,"date":"2025-10-23T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247045\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:40:12","slug":"10k-reward-offered-to-catch-vandals-who-damaged-new-smyrna-beach-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247045\/","title":{"rendered":"$10K reward offered to catch vandals who damaged New Smyrna Beach golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/D4C812C318533A4D23836929DE9FFAE1.jpg\" alt=\"Driver's joyride destroys Florida golf course green\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/video\/1727136\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Driver&#8217;s joyride destroys Florida golf course green<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Over $161,000 in damages were done to the Venetian Bay Golf Club in New Smyrna Beach as footage shows a pick up driver doing donuts in the second hole putting green around 3:30 a.m., Oct. 20. Now, the golf course is hoping the grass won&#8217;t go dormant as winter kicks in, potentially pushing back the restoration to April 2026, FOX 35&#8217;s Marie Edinger reported.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. &#8211; Investigators are offering a $10,000 reward for information that will help them track down and arrest those who caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/florida-golf-course-hit-100k-damages-over-donut-joyride-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">thousands of dollars in damage to a New Smyrna Beach<\/a> golf course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The second green at The Club at Venetian Bay was damaged over the weekend after someone drove onto the course and performed &#8220;donuts,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The damage to the golf course is estimated to be about $150,000.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">An employee at The Club noticed the damage to the course early Sunday morning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/florida-golf-course-hit-100k-damages-over-donut-joyride-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">alerted one of their supervisors<\/a>, who then called police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to authorities, someone reported seeing a pickup truck performing donuts on the course around 3:30 a.m. However, since the vehicle was so far away, they weren\u2019t able to provide a description.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It\u2019s estimated that 7,000-square-feet of turf was damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Office has partnered with New Smyrna Beach Police to offer a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators still don\u2019t know who vandalized the golf course. Anyone with information that could help with the investigation is asked to contact New Smyrna Beach Police Department at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/mailto:PDTIPS@cityofnsb.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PDTIPS@cityofnsb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in the article is from New Smyrna Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/volusia-county\/new-smyrna\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Smyrna Beach<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver&#8217;s joyride destroys Florida golf course green Over $161,000 in damages were done to the Venetian Bay Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[13591,622,427,132325,3,99,25,27329],"class_list":{"0":"post-247045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-new-smyrna","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-volusia-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}