Landings Golf Club<\/a>\u00a0is.\u00a0<\/p>\nSome golfers are split about the potential overhaul.<\/p>\n
For Deandre Robinson, it\u2019s a\u00a0pretty convenient spot to\u00a0take\u00a0some practice swings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s close by the house, so I come here and do a lot of practice and short game practice,” Robinson said. “If I need a quick tee time, it’s usually pretty easy to hop on.”<\/p>\n
He said The Landings has a good mix of course conditions and price. The Wheelehan brothers said they feel the same way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s in really good shape. It’s well maintained by the city. The greens fees are competitive, and it\u2019s a good quality course that’s not expensive,\u201d said Gil Wheelehan.<\/p>\n
But that could all change after the city of Clearwater received an unsolicited proposal to redevelop the course into a sports and recreation complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it’s gone, that means I’m probably not going to come to the athletic center because I’m going to be focused more on golf,” Robinson said. “So, I’m going to take my money and time elsewhere.”<\/p>\n
The\u00a0original\u00a0proposal from Sunshine Recreation and Entertainment has 13 soccer fields, including one championship field with a 5,000-seat arena. There would be 24 pickleball courts, a water park, sand volleyball\u00a0courts\u00a0and a fitness and wellness center.\u00a0Sunshine officials say they believe it would be a better use of the land.<\/p>\n
While the Wheelehan\u2019s like the area as a golf course, they\u00a0also\u00a0umpire youth baseball and\u00a0said local leagues\u00a0could benefit from a new sports complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are torn,”\u00a0Francis Wheelehan said. “I mean, we lose out on a great golf course, but we have great baseball. It’s, it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
City officials said the proposal was incomplete and requested it be resubmitted. Once that happens, they said the city can provide feedback.<\/p>\n
If the complex were to be built, the proposal\u00a0from Sunshine Recreation and Entertainment\u00a0claims that there would be $566 million in economic impact over 10 years. Plus, hundreds of local jobs would be created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 A popular public golf course in Clearwater could be replaced by a new\u00a0sports and recreation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[2722,427,3,38049,99,624,452,77500,13309],"class_list":["post-370200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-app-top-stories","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-tyler-oneill","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370200","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=370200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}