{"id":319843,"date":"2025-10-21T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:25:11","slug":"florida-golf-course-hit-with-100k-in-damages-over-donut-joyride-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319843\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida golf course hit with $100K in damages over &#8216;donut&#8217; joyride, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/D4C812C318533A4D23836929DE9FFAE1.jpg\" alt=\"Driver's joyride destroys Florida golf course green\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/video\/1727136\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Driver&#8217;s joyride destroys Florida golf course green<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Over $161,000 in damages were done to the Venetian Bay Golf Club in New Smyrna Beach as footage shows a pick up driver doing donuts in the second hole putting green around 3:30 a.m., Oct. 20. Now, the golf course is hoping the grass won&#8217;t go dormant as winter kicks in, potentially pushing back the restoration to April 2016, FOX 35&#8217;s Marie Edinger reported.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.<\/strong> &#8211; There are rules in the game of golf: keep up with the pace of play, try to keep the ball in the fairway, and be kind to the course.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Those rules were seemingly thrown out the window over the weekend after someone apparently went on a damaging joyride on the second hole green at The Club at Venetian Bay in New Smyrna Beach.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">New Smyrna Beach Police responded to the golf club on Sunday morning after employees found one of the greens significantly damaged.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">An employee noticed the damage around 6:30 a.m. and then contacted one of their supervisors, who then contacted police. Employees believe someone drove onto the course and did several &#8220;donuts,&#8221; creating deep tire tracks and sending dirt flying.<\/p>\n<p>General view of the damage on Hole 2 at The Club at Venetian Bay. Photo: New Smyrna Beach Police Department. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The employee estimated some 7,000 square feet of turf was damaged. The Club estimated the cost of the repair to be more than $150,000, plus loss of revenue while the hole is repaired.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said someone in the area reported seeing a pickup truck performing donuts on the course around 3:30 a.m., but was unable to provide a description because the vehicle was so far away.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Anyone with information on the damage is asked to contact New Smyrba Beach Police at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/mailto:PDTIPS@cityofnsb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDTIPS@cityofnsb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information is from the New Smyrna Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/volusia-county\/new-smyrna\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Smyrna Beach<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/florida-man\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Man<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver&#8217;s joyride destroys Florida golf course green Over $161,000 in damages were done to the Venetian Bay Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3188,139230,1430,160374,50,62,67,132,68,48655],"class_list":{"0":"post-319843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-florida-man","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-new-smyrna","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-volusia-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115409317410122501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}