"Caddyshack was filmed at our club"

When is Bushwood not Bushwood? When it’s Grande Oaks. Confused? Don’t be. The fictitious Illinois golf club that features in Caddyshack - the ever-so-snobby Bushwood Country Club - is actually Grande Oaks Country Club in Florida. Now privately owned, it was a ‘pay and play’ facility and went by the name of Rolling Hills when Hollywood rolled into town to film on location for 11 weeks in late 1979. “It’s pretty cool to be the Caddyshack club,” club director Joseph Semmler tells bunkered. “If you’re serious about golf, there’s a good chance you’ve seen that movie so to be the...