The Ivanhoe Club home of the Rust-Oleum Championship coming in June of 2016. The Links and Tee’s Golf Dome is open for the winter golf season see Addisonparks.org.      _____________________________________________________________________

The Gog Blog Chicago’s #1 Online Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. On the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort in Tarpon Springs.

On Tuesday a Grand Opening/ Media Day was held on the newly renovated Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook resort in the Palm Harbor/Tarpon Springs area, north of Tampa Bay.

The Copperhead Course is home of the PGA Tour Valspar Championship, were golfers like Wheaton’s Kevin Streelman and Northwestern Alum Luke Donald are among the past champions.

The course was shut down in early May of this year, and some limited member play last week before reopening today.

New white tour sand was going on last year, even before the Valspar Championship.

The Gog Blog went and saw the course originally designed by the famed Larry Packard early in 2015, but even then the course work had started.

Once May rolled around, the course shut down and heavy work began.

A renovation that the Salamander Resort Chain has called, restorative enhancement that respects the guiding principals of Packard’s original design.

BIG 3 Partner Len Ziehm was on site yesterday for the grand reopening, and will have more on the course renovation shortly. The Gog Blog will have it’s own review of the Copperhead renovation at the end of January in 2016, when our return visit occurs. In the meantime visit Lenziehmongolf.com for more information on Innisbrook Resort.