Two months after it ran out of money and closed, The Golf Club at Summerbrooke has reopened with a new operator.
Keith Pope, the principal of Pope Golf Management, has assumed control of the 20-year-old club in Tallahassee, Florida. Pope plans to address greens-related issues immediately and to completely overhaul Summerbrooke’s 18-hole, Dean Refram-designed course over the next three years.
“He is like an angel,” Summerbrook’s owner, Reagan Hobbs, told the Tallahassee Democrat. “His forte is turning around courses. He is what we needed.”
Hobbs bought Summerbrooke in 2003 and says that it hasn’t had even one profitable year. He was forced to close the club in July due to what the Democrat calls “persistent operating debt.”
Pope, which operates six other golf properties in Florida, replaced Hampton Golf Management.