New Leaf

New Leaf Achievements & Accolades

Taking pride in everything we do

We have been winning top awards ever since the company opened its first club in the 1980s.   Here is a sampling of the achievements and accolades received for the amenities we manage at New Leaf.

2007

Whispering Oak, the Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II co-designed championship golf course at Verandah, has been named one of Golf Inc. magazine's top new courses. The 18-hole course, which opened in January 2007, was among the top five finalists for the 2007 Golf Inc. Development of the Year in the private course category. Entries were judged on routing, aesthetics and how well the developer achieved its vision. Whispering Oak was the only Florida course included in Golf Inc.'s top five developments. First-place honors went to Vellano Country Club in Chino Hills, Calif.

Bonita Bay Club's Fireside Room is the proud recipient of the 2007 Wine Enthusiast Magazine's Award of Distinction. Out of the thousands of applicants, The Fireside Room is one of a select number of restaurants in North America to be honored in 2007 with this level of distinction.

Golf Connoisseur has named Bonita Bay as one of the top 40 golf communities in America, on its inaugural list of the best places to live and play in the U.S. Bonita Bay was selected for its variety of residential options, 1,400 acres of parks, lakes, preserves and open spaces, marina with access to the Gulf of Mexico, and five golf courses, designed by Arthur Hills and Tom Fazio.

Project EverGreen has named Verandah a winner of its prestigious Because Green Matters award for 2007. Project EverGreen honors the company, organization or individual that promotes the beneficial effects of green spaces through a major project to create or improve a green space with this annual award program.

Verandah's emphasis on green building, its respect for the land and its comprehensive approach to sustainability earned the Fort Myers community the 2007 Green Building Best Practices Award from the Council for Sustainable Florida. Verandah earned the honor in the green building category.

Verandah has earned the Florida Urban Forestry Council's Trees Florida 2007 Award in the outstanding project category. The community was recognized for its development plan that preserved trees already in place. In creating Verandah, Bonita Bay Group reworked development plans repeatedly to accommodate existing hammocks of live oaks and stands of native sabal palms.

2006

Golf Magazine ranks Bonita Bay and Mediterra among 50 Best Places to Live in America (All together, these two communities have seven golf courses, two clubhouses and a marina.)  

Travel+Leisure Golf ranks Bonita Bay and Mediterra among the top 100 golf communities in America

Club Leaders Forum lists Mediterra as one of America's top 100 private country clubs and names The Club at Mediterra a Platinum Club of America

Southeast Builders Conference awards Verandah's River House an Aurora Award for best recreational/special amenity facility  

2005

Golf, Inc. names David Lucas one of the country's Top 100 most influential golf course developers

Golfweek ranks three of Bonita Bay Club's five golf courses in the top 100 list of America's Best Residential Golf Courses

The Community Association Institute South Gulf Coast Chapter honors the Bonita Bay Community Association with the Community Association of the Year Award and the Humanitarian Award

Florida Chapter of The American Society of Landscape Architects presents the Bonita Bay Group with its Award of Excellence in the Open Space Category

2004

Golfweek's list of America's Best Residential Golf Courses ranks the Sabal Course at Bonita Bay Club East No. 74 and the Bay Island Course at Bonita Bay Club West No. 80

Golf Magazine names Dr. Jim "Doc" Suttie of the Doctor Jim Suttie Golf Academy at TwinEagles one of the Top 100 golf instructors

Golf Digest ranks Dr. Jim "Doc" Suttie No. 12 on list of America's 50 Greatest Teachers

The Bonita Bay community is certified as an Audubon International Cooperative Sanctuary

United States Tennis Court and Track Builders Association and Tennis Industry Magazine honor Mediterra with the Tennis Court of the Year award

Florida Yards and Neighborhoods grants certification to Verandah's River Village clubhouse, sales center and main thoroughfare

The Council for Sustainable Florida honors Mediterra with its Promising Practices Award

Collier Building Industry Association names Mediterra Best Clubhouse in the $900,000-and-up home category

2003

Golf, Inc. lists the Bonita Bay Group as one of the 20 Largest Management Companies

Golf Digest and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America honor The Club at Mediterra with an Environmental Leader in Golf Award

2002

Council for Sustainable Florida awards The Brooks Beach Club its top award for projects that manage, protect and restore Florida's coastal areas

Florida Department of Environmental Protection grants Bonita Bay's Marina Club a Clean Marina Certification

Mediterra is certified as the world's first private, 36-hole Audubon International Silver Signature Sanctuary

American Society of Interior Designers' Design Excellence award for the Georgia Chapter is presented to Mediterra

The Club at TwinEagles community is certified as an Audubon International Signature Sanctuary

2001

Golf & Travel Magazine lists TwinEagles as one of the 12 Most Intriguing Golf Communities in America

Mediterra's South Course is certified as an Audubon International Signature Sanctuary - the fourth course in the world to achieve this designation

1999

Golf Digest names Bonita Bay the Environmental Leader in Golf

Golf Digest ranks The Cypress course at Bonita Bay Club East 30th in the state of Florida

Urban Land Institute honors Bonita Bay with the Award for Excellence as the nation's most outstanding large-scale community

The Professional Grounds Management Society bestows the Honor Award on Bonita Bay for overall community maintenance

1998

Bonita Bay's Tom Fazio-designed Cypress course is designated as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary

Bonita Bay Club East is designated as the world's first private 36-hole Audubon Signature Cooperative Sanctuary

1997

Golf Digest ranks the Bay Island course 15th out of Florida's top 30 courses

1996

The Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System designates Bonita Bay Club's three championship golf courses as Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries

1992

Golfweek ranks Bonita Bay's The Marsh as Florida's seventh most popular course

1991

The Marsh is ranked as the ninth best course in Florida by Golf Digest

1989

Golf Digest rates The Marsh 60th in its annual listing of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses

1988

Southeast Builders Conference names Bonita Bay's clubhouse Best Recreational Facility in the southeastern United States

1987

American Society of Golf Course Architects ranks Bonita Bay Club in the top 1 percent of all courses in the nation

1986

Florida Golfweek magazine names Bonita Bay's The Marsh "Highest Ranking New Course" and Arthur Hills is named Architect of the Year for course design