Golf club's comeback began the day after Hurricane Milton made landfall

The Carrollwood Country Club in Tampa was hit hard by the storm, but within a week players were back on the course. The $2 million rehab project includes valuable lessons in resiliency and redundancy.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. June 11, 2025
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Brian Thornbury, the general manager of the Carrollwood Country clb in Tampa, helped bring the club back after the damage caused by Hurricane Milton.
Brian Thornbury, the general manager of the Carrollwood Country clb in Tampa, helped bring the club back after the damage caused by Hurricane Milton.
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Nearly eight months after Hurricane Milton slammed into the west coast of Florida, a golf club in Tampa heralded that it had completed what it called a “remarkable comeback” following the storm.

The club’s owner, Orlando-based Concert Golf Partners, announced in a news release May 29 that following extensive damage to the course it had bounced back and returned “to fully operational excellence.”

 

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