Bright yellow machines outnumber golf carts at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club as workers level the new driving range, sod tees, redo bunkers, enlarge the putting green and redirect cart paths.

Inside the log clubhouse, the dining room and kitchen have been gutted, awaiting the newly designed bar and eating area.

It is a busy time for the facility's new managers, head golf pro Chad Penman and club house manager Allyson Melchreit.

Getting the golf course ready for the May 22 opening day is the first priority. “I don’t have a choice,” Penman said.

On Monday, April 22, the tees were being re-sodded as course workers were giving the fairways and greens their first cutting.

Pointing through the woods to a bare spot where an excavator had been working to level the new driving range, Penman said the home George Whitten built alongside the 18th fairway would soon be vacated and moved to a lot up on the hill to make room for a trio of target greens.

Penman has other plans to enhance the club, including an old way to introduce the game to the younger generation. “We are going to try to get some local kids to caddy. We want help them to learn and love the game,” he said.

Other civic groups will be encouraged to use the facility, too.

The pro shop is crowded; old dining room tables and chairs are stacked along one wall as a worker begins the task of reframing the structure inside the dining area.

The most striking change is the open space where the bar once stood. “It will be a U-shaped bar in the center of the room and the huge TV set will be over there,” Penman said, pointing to the back wall.

Melchreit, who worked with Penman at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y., awaits the delivery of new kitchen equipment and talks about food.

“Chef Geoff Cornell and I want to feature fresh local foods,” Melchreit said. “Some folks have asked us if we will do vegetarian and gluten free menus and the answer is yes.”

Penman said he has asked to meet with managers of the area hotels on May 2 at the Boothbay Craft Brewery on Adams Pond Road.

“We are not going to try to sell them anything. We want to meet them and see if we can work together to help them sell more rooms during the shoulder season,” Penman said.

The renovations to the golf course and club house, which may eventually include a swimming pool and tennis courts, are part of the plan by new owner Paul Coulombe to make the facility another attraction to augment the area’s other recreational opportunities, he said.