Golf Guy

A trio of owners came and went in a year, with little success, at the CaddyShack Bar & Grille inside The River Club while Jacques Panet-Raymond watched it all.

“I told my wife, next time it comes up, I'm going to buy it,” says Panet-Raymond, a PGA Master Professional based at The River Club, in east Manatee County.

He did buy it. And in five years, with subtle but customer-friendly changes in prices and service, Panet-Raymond built CaddyShack into a local “Cheers” style pub. Yet while running a neighborhood joint was nice, Panet-Raymond says his dream for the past decade has been to own a golf course, not just a pub inside a club. On March 1 he closed on a deal to make that dream happen, when he bought the Terra Ceia Bay Golf and Country Club in Palmetto, in northeast Manatee County.