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An Independent Newspaper Serving Broken Sound & Bocaire

VOL. 14 NO. 3 www.seabreezepublications.com MARCH 2020

Bocaire’s “Challenge” Highlights from

Broken Sound Club’s 21st
Golf Course: A Year Later Annual Members’ Art Show

By Jeff Gullett, Bocaire Country Club’s Head Golf Pro (See pages 12-13)
In 2016, Bocaire started taking steps to launch our golf
course into another level of Country Club golf. We planned
and carefully plotted the proper timing and execution of a
master plan that golf course architect Kipp Schulties brought
to life. The vision that he and his team brought to the club
was magnificent.
The goal was to provide the membership with a
Championship golf course that is member-friendly and
engulfed in beauty, with lush landscape and beautiful vistas.
The end result left us with “The Challenge,” a golf course
suited to its name. It’s a 7,000-plus yard Championship golf
course that has rolling hills, elevation changes, unlike many courses in South Florida, along
with some of the fastest greens in the area. It truly has grown some teeth in the past year since
its completion. It is hard to find a bad lie on the plush Tiff Grand Bermuda grass fairways.
The spectacular greens are Tiff Eagle that average a quick speed of 12 on the stimpmeter.
The green complexes are unique, and none of them are the same. Bring your short game!
The new short game practice facility that has become one of our many highlights in the
renovation will help with this. Many golfers spend their quality practice time on the 3 green
short game complex with drastic lie changes and bunkered greens. Since the completion,
the golf course landscaping has filled in and completed the beauty that Bocaire’s members
enjoy each day.
The beautiful landscape encompasses each hole in its own framework that feels like you
are the only one on the course. The dramatic elevation changes have given the course a look
seldom seen in South Florida. The beauty and the challenge will be seen by all who get the
opportunity to experience “The Challenge” at Bocaire. There is no challenge getting on the
new course, because Bocaire has no tee times and you never have to wait more than a few
minutes to get out on the course.
Here are a few photos to give you an idea of the result of Kipp Schulties’s design.

Bocaire’s “Challenge” Golf Course on page 4

Art by Judy Mandell Delfiner Art by Thomas Cushing

Habitat for Humanity Seeks

“Sisters of Pink Hard Hats”

to Raise Funds, Build Homes

Poised to significantly grow the roster of the annual “Sisters of the Pink Hard Hats,”
registration has opened for Habitat for Humanity South Palm Beach County’s (HFHSPBC)
WOMEN Build 2020. Once again, the nonprofit’s WOMEN Build combines experiential
fundraising with “camaraderie-of-a-rare-kind” that brings together mission-driven women
to help transform their community on the days leading up to Mother’s Day. Celebrating
the unstoppable power of women, this year’s women-exclusive fundraiser will create two
homes for two hard-working, low income moms and their families, and their generations
to come in South Palm Beach County.
Returning as Mother/Daughter WOMEN Build Co-Chairs are Beverly Raphael Altman and
Robyn Raphael-Dynan, who are women builders every day as the CEO and Vice President
of Operations of RCC Associates. Supported by a committee of community-driven women
leaders who all serve as WOMEN Build team captains, Altman and Raphael-Dynan are
recruiting 250 for this year’s three-day on-site build to be held Thursday, May 7th, Friday,
May 8th, and Saturday, May 9th.

Habitat for Humanity Seeks on page 3