heritagebayguy

All in all, the facilities at Heritage Bay resemble a resort lifestyle, including bundled golf with a home purchase, pool bar, fitness center, tennis center, and beautiful clubhouse. Annual golf dues are some of the most reasonable among all the bundled courses in Naples. It's really a fabulous place to live and play golf for a majority of the year... in season, it is what it is... really, really BUSY. Too busy and too slow! But it’s pretty much that way for most courses in Naples.
At Heritage Bay, "transfer memberships" for renters have been a source of heavy play. Inexpensive daily fees for these memberships make for very little incentive to take a day off and not play golf... consequently the course does get hammered with play in January, February, and March. We'll hope next year is better with a recent increase in fees for these transfer members.
The lack of rain during the “season” makes keeping the fairways soft very problematic and the heavy play and golf cart traffic is tough on the fairways. Rookie golfers during the "season" with brand new golf shoes drag their feet and often scuff the greens, rarely fix ball marks, and seldom fill divots, and have NO CLUE about pace of play… a very frustrating problem everywhere.
We've had a couple of nice rains in April and as of this last week of April the course is back to its fully lush condition. Fairways are now pristine and greens are soft and hold nicely. The course will be in wonderful shape from now through December.