The winners of a public auction held Tuesday morning for the Gainesville Country Club plan to revive the clubhouse and course to “some semblance of past glory.”
The club sold at auction for just over $2 million, less than two months after an Alachua County judge granted a final judgment of foreclosure against the owner of the club.
The winning bid was placed by SILS Holdings Inc., whose managers include successful auto dealers Irving J. Matthews and Sanford L. Woods Sr., and entrepreneur Stanley Campbell.
Linnes Finney Jr., the LLC’s listed president and a partner with Port St. Lucie-based law firm Simmons, Finney & Winfield LLC, said shortly after the auction closed that his clients want to see the course reopened.
“Obviously the golf course is in bad shape and what we want to do is be able to assess the conditions of the course and bring the course up to standards,” he said. “At that time then we would make a decision as to any other economic opportunities.
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