The Golf Philanthropist
About the Book
Summary
Mick Walker, the youngest of the Walker clan, came close to losing everything in his life at a very young age. Lead astray by a beautiful woman, Mick becomes addicted to drugs and the fast life it offered. Reprieved by a loving Uncle and the FBI, Mick escapes financial ruin and a prison sentence, and finds a new life through a drug rehabilitation program. Granted a clean slate, due to his cooperation with authorities, Mick goes on to a successful life as a businessman. Through his business connections, in the state of New York, Mick is introduced to the Golf Philanthropist.
Mick brokers the deal for this man and his benefactors to rehabilitate an entire community by resurrecting a distressed golf club. The course had been closed for five full years and developers were lurking, planning to destroy the former golf course and build homes on the property.
The Golf Philanthropist is a fictional story based on the happenings in the life of golfers when they lose their place to play golf. It traces the history of the Palm Oaks Golf and Country Club, built as part of the Palm Oaks Plantation community in the early seventies through the year 2015. All of the natural disasters that are described in this book of fiction, actually occurred in real time, many of the outcomes are sensationalized to a degree in this fictional retelling.
Location
In East Central Florida, a place where golfers live and golfers visit to play golf, there is a problem of access for recreational golfers. In two counties, Volusia and Flagler, nine courses closed beginning in the decade of the year 2000. Very few of them have reopened, now some twenty plus years later. These closures have put undue stress on the courses that remain open, especially in the winter months when many northern visitors come to this area to play golf.