The Florida Club: An Inside Look at Gated Golf Country Club Life in Florida

by Ray Brown

Overview

Have you ever driven by a classy, gated community and wondered what the hell is going on in there? Perfect for fans of the Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which gave the reader a behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of the New York City restaurant scene, The Florida Club offers an inside look at country club living in a gated Florida community.

In 2019, with his partners mired in legal trouble and danger closing in, New York businessman Ray Brown decided on a major life change, trading the frenzied world of New York real estate for a relaxed life of leisure in Southwest Florida. The Florida Club follows Ray's story as he acclimates to his new environment and learns about the golf, socializing-and partying-that goes on inside the Florida club.

The gated communities in the Sunshine State are full of more than just bunch of stuffy old blue-hairs sitting around playing bridge and waiting for a dirt nap. Others are playing golf, drinking everything they can get their grubby little hands on, and doing pretty much anything and everything to offend the snooty members without getting bounced from the club. Their exploits will amuse, inform, appall, and make you wish you could be one of them.

Even if you're skeptical, please buy the book anyhow. It won't take too long to read, and we could really use the money; our bar tab has gotten out of control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662943119
Publisher:	Gatekeeper Press
Publication date:	05/19/2024
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Ray Brown wrote The Movie Deal in 2020, and from 2021 through 2023 he formed The Movie Group Team and co-wrote The Florida Club. He is currently a co-host of The Friday Nite Blast from Southwest Florida demo series. He is also working with The Movie Group Team on a 2024 launch of the team's next project, Old Cops.Movie Group Team: Dave Sobecki was a professor of mathematics for twenty-four years at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio. He's written either nine or twenty textbooks (depending on how you count them). He relocated to Florida in 2019 to pursue his true passions of golfing and drinking beer while maintaining an active writing and speaking schedule. He's currently working on his first novel and a screenplay. He lives in Southwest Florida with his bestest friend and beautiful wife of twenty-nine years, Cat.Mike Burkhart, a Florida native, fell in love with the game of golf when he worked at a golf course in high school. He is happily married to his high school sweetheart, Deanna, and they have two wonderful children. Semi-retired as an entrepreneur-and loving life as a member of an area country club-the friendships he makes are the best part of being a member.Patty Fitzgerald is a retired director in the medical insurance field. Born in upstate New York, she is the mother of two amazing daughters and one cherished grandson. Trading in their snow shovels for golf clubs, she and her husband, Mark, reside in a gated golf country club in Florida.Bobby Pike was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He retired from General Motors after a lengthy thirty-eight-year career which included the progression from union representation to UAW international servicing representative. In 2014, he and his wife, Janice, moved from New Jersey to a gated golf country club in Florida where they enjoy a very social lifestyle.John Theobold was born and raised in Illinois. He served in the United States Air Force and was honorably discharged after eight years of service. He and his family moved into a gated golf community in Florida after visiting his in-laws there on many vacations.Sheryl Hershock moved from picturesque Ligonier, Pennsylvania to sunny Florida when her husband retired. Formerly she taught high school English in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Both Sheryl and her husband, Bruce, are graduates of Penn State University. She enjoys the challenge of utilizing her English-teaching skills to co-write her first book, and she has an additional book in the works.Deanna Burkhart was born and raised in Florida. She met her husband/best friend in high school, and they have two great kids together. Once the kids were grown, they joined a country club. Her tennis game has come a long way in the past couple of years. As far as her golf game goes, the only thing that has grown there is her colorful vocabulary. The best part of her day is ending up at their country club with a great group of friends. She has perfected the motto, "Just one more."