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Innisbrook’s acclaimed Copperhead Course brings back bite

Tampa Bay's Westin Innisbrook Resort has made extensive renovations to the award-winning Copperhead Golf Course, which was home to the popular JCPenney Classic and now the hosts the newly announced PGA TOUR event to be held October 16-22, 2000.

The par 71 course is now open, after the refurbishment of all 18 greens, bunker renovations, and tee area extensions. The course actually increased in length from 7,087 yards to 7,230 yards.

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The resort spent in excess of $500,000 for the renovation to help protect the integrity of the Larry Packard-designed course. This renovation, along with other planned upgrades to services, greatly enhances the Copperhead golf experience.

Westin Innisbrook Resort's head golf course superintendent Rob Giampietro said the renovation included installing one of the finest Bermuda Putting surface grasses known as ‘tif eagle,’ as well as the modernizing of the greens' irrigation system and rebuilding several greenside bunker complexes. Also included in the renovations was the installation of continual cart paths on the Copperhead, with an emphasis away from play to protect the fairway playing surface.

Situated on more 1,000 acres of rolling hills on Florida’s west central coast (just 25 minutes from Tampa International Airport), The Westin Innisbrook Resort features 90 holes of championship golf, 800 suite accommodations, five on-site restaurants and entertainment, The Innisbrook Troon Golf School, 11 tennis courts, fitness center, six swimming pools, a nature preserve and three conference centers featuring 65,000 square feet of meeting space.

Within the next five years, the resort will undergo more than $50 million in additional renovations. A central village, with guest registration, lobby bar, a new restaurant, shops, a grocery/deli, health club/spa, and new golf shop, is scheduled to open later this year.