The Bath Country Club was sold Tuesday to an investment group led by Harris Golf, which owned the popular Bath course from 1994 to 2006.
Now known as The Bath Golf Club, the 18-hole facility will feature “a much stronger focus on the golf, member events and regularly scheduled events,” Matt Barnard, director of communications for Harris Golf, said today.
The club was purchased for $1.395 million by a private investment group including local Maine golfers, Barnard said.
“A sweeping renovation/ restoration” of the course is planned, according to Barnard.
Harris Management Inc. will be in charge of all day-today club operations. PGA member Leon Oliver has been hired as clubhouse manager and head golf professional; Jared Bristol as director of golf course maintenance; and Patrick Sevigny as superintendent, to oversee restoration and course maintenance.
One popular event that Harris Golf ran when it previously operated the club, the weekly “Hully Gully,” will begin this Friday.
“It’s simply a chance for members to get out and play in a weekly, changing format,” Barnard said of the Friday evening get-together that includes food and golf. “It used to be a well-loved tradi- tion. It seems funny, with all the other big things, that this was a major focus (of interest), but it says something that a lot of the things that people loved about Bath (previously) are coming back.”
Since members were told Tuesday of the sale, management has experienced “a hugely positive” reaction, according to Barnard. “Yesterday before the sale even closed … people were coming up to us left and right to congratulate us. Many of the golfers — a lot of them … have been playing there their whole lives.”
Harris Golf owns and operates eight other courses in the state, including the Freeport Country Club, Mere Creek Golf Club in Brunswick, Highland Creek Golf Club in Topsham, Sunday River, Old Marsh in Wells, Penobscot Valley in Orono, the Falmouth Country Club and Wilson Lake Country Lake in Wilton.
Barnard said Harris Golf plans to announce an “integration” for members with the company’s other courses in the area, and eventually with its courses statewide, although details are not yet finalized.
Events at the Bath Golf Club will be posted later today at www.thebathgolfclub.com. For more information, call 442-8411.
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