Heritage Golf Group buys Fazio design in Longwood

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The Heritage Golf Group has announced its acquisition of The Legacy Golf Club at Aqua Lakes in Longwood, 15 minutes north of Orlando on Interstate 4.

Heritage Golf Group, in existence since 1999, has purchased properties across America, including Atlanta National Golf Club, Washington National Golf Club and Valencia Country Club in California. The Legacy Club is the fifth facility it purchased in 2004 alone.

The Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole golf course is the first semi-private facility in the world to become an Audubon International Signature Certified Sanctuary golf course. There are only 50 facilities currently with this certification in the world.

The Audubon Signature Cooperative Sanctuary Programs are environmental education and assistance programs aimed to integrate wildlife conservation, habitat restoration and enhancement, water conservation and water quality protection and other areas of environmental protection, improvement and development.

The course, a 7,160-yard par-72, is nature-laden and decorated with thick stands of ancient hardwoods, native palms surrounding lush greens, undulating fairways, shimmering lakes and pristine bunkers. The course also contains many slopes and rises to add to the topography of the generally flat central Florida landscape.

"The Legacy Club at Alaqua Lakes holds so many of the characteristics we look for in properties," Bob Husband, president and CEO of Heritage Golf Group, said in a statement. "It features an outstanding golf course, is located in a high-end community with tremendous growth potential and is continually being praised as one of the best in its market."

The club also regularly hosts U.S. Open qualifiers and is frequented by many of metro-Orlando's PGA Tour residents.

While the course is currently semi-private, Heritage has launched a privatization campaign, in hopes to make the club entirely private in the future.

For more information about the Legacy Club, call (407) 444-9995 or visit www.alaqualakesgolfclub.com.

August 23, 2004