Elevate Your Match Strategy with the Lob & Drop Shot
Welcome players, as we head into the competitive months its time to refine those crucial elements that distinguish the savvy competitor from the simply powerful. Two strokes that can elevate your match strategy— particularly when facing skilled net rushing opponents are the Lob and the Drop shot. These two shots when used thoughtfully, become weapons […]
From the Golf Professionals
As golf professionals, we face many challenges making sure that everybody enjoys the time they spend during their round of golf. There are two areas where we can work together and improve everybody’s enjoyment. One being etiquette and the other is pace of play. ETIQUETTE The key to making sure proper etiquette is being followed […]
It Takes a Team Effort—Grandezza Girlfriends
In November, the GirlFriends welcomed Steffanie Pearce from the Gulfshore Opera who shared her journey from performer to producer with us. Ms. Pearce has over 30 years of experience in the field of opera as a producer, director, performer, teacher and also enjoyed a long international singing career. Singers Julian Alfano and Aaron Santos, accompanied […]
Here’s to All of Us!
JOIN US! Come Deck the Halls with the Sounds of the Season and the GRANDEZZA SINGERS! Wednesday, December 11th at 5:30 PM in the GCC Foyer Hub Bar My granddaughter recently celebrated her 10th birthday. I congratulated her on reaching such a milestone. After explaining what milestones were and again congratulating her on achieving her […]
Golf Rules and Posting Housekeeping
As a golf professional, I have been a witness to some complete misunderstandings of the rules of the game and rules for posting scores. Unfortunately, it happens more often than it should. It happens mostly because players misunderstand the rules. More of us would read the rules book if it was interesting. Since it is […]
Are you a Caitlin Clark Fan??
If you answered yes, then you enjoy winning, setting lots of records, excitement and women’s basketball. What you might now know is we have all of that and more less than two miles north of Grandezza. I’m talking about FGCU Women’s Basketball. Let me begin with ten reasons why all of this is true. 1. […]
Reader’s Corner
Ariel Lawhon’s newest novel, The Frozen River, is an engrossing historical mystery inspired by the life of someone most of us have never heard of—Martha Ballard, a renowned eighteenth-century midwife. The real-life Ballard, who was born in 1735 and died in 1812, delivered over a thousand babies in her career and never lost a mother […]
GirlFriends Welcome Wonder Gardens Speaker
The GirlFriends returned to our clubhouse for the October luncheon. Guest speaker from Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs, Katie Grimes, encouraged visitors to come explore their botanical gardens, sprawling banyan trees, and rescued animals. She shared with us their Master Plan, that includes an animal care center. It’s a wonderful place to visit with younger […]
Happy 99th Birthday, Paul Edwards!
Grandezza’s oldest resident Paul Edwards recently celebrated his 99th birthday on September 23.Paul is a WWII and Korean War veteran who served in Australia, the Philippines and Japan more years ago than many of us were born. He came to Grandezza in 2014 following the death of his wife of sixty-eight years to winter near […]
Travel Corner
Exploring the Arctic in Search of Polar Bears Since my retirement in 2015, I have embraced “carpe diem” with a passion, checking off my bucket list one by one. In May, I was thrilled to observe polar bears in the Arctic with Quark Expeditions. My daughter and I happened upon a last-minute deal and signed […]