Kensington Golf & Country Club Elevates Golf Experience By Brian Weis

Kensington Golf & Country Club Elevates Golf Experience

By Brian Weis

Kensington Golf & Country Club in Naples has reopened its completely renovated Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed championship golf course following a $7.2 million investment by the Club's private membership.

The project included all new varieties of Bermuda grass on the playing surfaces; Bimini fairways and surrounds with TifEagle greens. New drainage was added to promote "firm and fast" playing conditions, and tees were extended with long, meandering "ribbon tees" to create new distances and angles. Sightlines from all bunkers were enhanced along with updated bunker liner construction. Concrete cart paths were reduced in the landing areas and a state-of-the-art irrigation control system was installed. No spot on the entire golf course was untouched.

"I take tremendous pride in the design work done at Kensington Golf & Country Club over the years, starting with the original golf course more than 25 years ago and followed by the renovation completed in 2006," said Robert Trent Jones Jr. " Now, we have a completely reinvigorated and updated golf course in concert with our strategic design philosophy."

Centrally located on 380 acres of the Paradise Coast, Kensington Golf & Country Club is one of the more established clubs in north Naples having opened in 1994. The golf course renovation comes on the heels of a $3.5 million expansion and rejuvenation of the Club's 30,000-foot clubhouse.

"With this latest work now completed on our golf course, Kensington can offer current and prospective members a practically brand new experience within a well-established club setting," said David Krzywonos, General Manager of Kensington Golf & CC. "We are especially proud to complete this latest project without any incremental assessment."

The Club offers both casual and formal dining including a new 150-seat outdoor dining area known as Brighton Pointe. Designed by well-known Naples architect David Humphrey, this open-air space offers a stunning view down the 18th hole and features a casual, island-style architecture, including a full kitchen and expansive bar area. From Brighton Pointe, members enjoying the comfort of the heated saline-system junior-Olympic swimming pool and cabanas have access to food and beverage service.

Other club amenities include seven rebuilt Har-Tru clay lighted tennis, four new pickleball and 2 bocce courts. Recently the fitness facility was expanded with new equipment and a Pilates Studio. Members have access to a Day Spa with a complete menu of rejuvenating services.

For more information on Kensington Golf & Country Club please contact Sara James, Director of Membership and Marketing at 239-213-1983.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.