Local Golf Legend Paul Azinger Helps Design Miakka Golf Club

Dana Fry, Steve Herrig, Jason Straka and Paul Azinger talk about building the Miakka Golf Club on the site in Myakka City.

It's the side job he never imagined having. Former PGA Tour pro Paul Azinger, winner of the 1993 PGA Championship and the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports, wasn't going to go into golf course architecture. It would take a very special opportunity to change his mind.

That opportunity came about when Steve Herrig, an entrepreneur and the CEO and chairman of the board of Bradenton-based Sunz Holdings, decided to build Miakka Golf Club. Herrig and his wife Natalee own approximately 3,000 acres in Manatee County that includes the TerraNova Equestrian Center at 31625 Clay Gully Road in Myakka. The land around the equestrian center will be surrounded by The Estates at TerraNova, approximately 120 10-acre ranch homesites. The Miakka Golf Club will run adjacent to the equestrian center's property.

The land is what convinced Azinger to join the Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design team in keeping the natural beauty of the area and incorporating it into the course. "We are going into the wilderness and creating a phenomenal golf course," Azinger said. "It is a privilege to be involved."

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