FRENCH LICK RESORT EXPANDS: The French Lick Resort, which hosts the Senior LPGA Championship on its Pete Dye Course in October, announced the launching of a $17 million project that will add 56 guestrooms and a new sports bar near the Event Center and French Lick Casino. The six-story guestroom addition and sports bar are slated for completion in the fall of 2019.
The additional rooms will supplement the existing 686 guestrooms at the two historic resort hotels - French Lick Springs and West Baden Springs - and bring the resort's overall capacity to 742 rooms.
INNISBROOK RENOVATION NEARLY COMPLETE: The South Course at the Innisbrook Resort, in Palm Harbor, FL., has scheduled its re-opening festivities on Nov. 30 It's been closed all summer to allow for the planting of TifEagle Bermuda on all of its greens. That's the same grass that was already put on the Copperhead course - site of the PGA Tour's Valspar Championship in March - and the North Course. The North renovation was completed in 2017.
