August inside the gates is the quiet stretch. The Gold Course is playable but empty by two in the afternoon, the Mouratoglou courts get long shadows by four, and the porte-cochère at the Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón is closed off behind construction fencing. The next twenty weeks will not be quiet. Between now and mid-December, the resort you live around is being partly rebuilt while the LPGA season finale and a mixed-tour team event both stage themselves on the Gold Course.
For anyone who owns here, the sequence matters more than any single item on it. This post lays out the calendar, the dining reroutes that hold through September, and the traffic pattern that begins the third week of November.
The renovation clock is running through September 27
The construction window is public information. The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón is undergoing a full-property renovation from May 17, 2026 through September 27, 2026, with all guestrooms and the lobby being updated and the front driveway and porte-cochère closed for the cranes required to do it. The property is remaining fully open throughout, which is why the front-entry closure matters. Deliveries, ride shares, and any resident walking a guest to check-in are all routed around the north side of the building.
Parker Torres Design, the studio that reworked the beachfront sister property, is leading the rebuild. Their brief includes the guestrooms, suites, lobby, elevator lobbies, corridors, the Club Lounge, and a new 2,700-square-foot event space called Swaying Palm that will frame the Gold Course through expansive windows. The whole reveal is scheduled for Fall 2026.
Where the familiar dining has gone until then
If you have a standing Friday reservation, the address is the same but the room is not. Through September 2026, the resort's own site lists three specific relocations:
| Original venue | Where it is right now (through Sept 2026) |
|---|---|
| Ría lunch | Its outdoor dining space |
| Ría dinner | The Preserve |
| Bella Vista | The Cypress Lounge |
| eXpress(o) coffee and pastry | The entrance of the Tiburón Foyer |
None of this is permanent. It is the swing space while the main rooms are being finished. The reason to note it now is that the September 27 handover is followed almost immediately by the Fall reveal, and the reveal is where the menus themselves change.
What actually changes at the reveal
Two new culinary concepts are debuting when the resort reopens its finished spaces: Palmera and Fenrose. That is a significant shift for a property whose dining lineup has been stable for years. The Club Lounge is also being refreshed with new furnishings for morning-through-evening service, and Swaying Palm opens as the resort's new events venue.
The specialty amenities that most Tiburon residents actually use day to day are unchanged. The Reservoir waterpark stays open. The two Greg Norman courses at Tiburón Golf Club remain in play. The Mouratoglou Tennis Center keeps its full instruction schedule. And the shuttle to the beachfront Ritz-Carlton, Naples continues to run for spa, beach service, and dining access there.
So the practical read is this: dining is disrupted through September, everything else keeps its usual rhythm, and the reopening lands roughly six weeks before the first televised tournament week.
The two tournament weeks are twelve days apart
Here is the part of the fall calendar that reshapes the whole north-Naples corridor:
| Event | Dates | Format | Course |
|---|---|---|---|
| CME Group Tour Championship | Nov 19–22, 2026 | LPGA season finale, 60-player field, $4M winner's share | Tiburón Golf Club |
| Grant Thornton Invitational | Dec 7–13, 2026 | 32-player mixed LPGA/PGA TOUR team event | Tiburón Golf Club, Gold Course |
The CME event closes the LPGA season. The defending champion is Jeeno Thitikul, who took the title in both 2024 and 2025 and collected the $4 million first-place check last November. The point structure is heavier than a regular tour stop, with 3,500 Race to CME Globe points on the line versus the 500 typically available.
Twelve days after CME wraps, the Grant Thornton Invitational moves in. It is a co-sanctioned team event with sixteen LPGA and sixteen PGA TOUR players competing for an equal $4 million purse across three rounds: Scramble, Foursomes, and Modified Four-Ball. The 2025 edition was won by the team of Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin at 28-under. Nine hours of live coverage on Golf Channel and NBC come with it.
The Live Fest night is a Saturday
Buried inside the Grant Thornton week is one event that is closer to a neighborhood concern than a golf one. The 7th annual Live Fest concert is scheduled for Saturday, December 12, from 5 PM to 10 PM, staged outdoors on the Tiburón Driving Range. Sound carries across the Gold Course fairways to the residential edge on the north side of the property. If you have guests coming that weekend or a quiet dinner planned, the driving range is the reason to check the wind.
Parking, access, and the streets you already drive
Tournament parking is off-site by design, which is what keeps the interior roads clear. The published lots for CME are:
- Lot C (general spectator and accessible): Italian American Club of Naples, 7035 Airport-Pulling Road. $10 cash on arrival, complimentary shuttles to and from the course.
- Lot A (valet, VIP passes and credentialed media only): corner of Livingston Road and Vanderbilt Beach Road, 3195 Vanderbilt Beach Road.
For residents, the practical read is that the two arterials you use most, Airport-Pulling and Vanderbilt Beach, both carry tournament shuttle traffic during event days. The published spectator driving directions route spectators from I-75 through the Pine Ridge Road and Immokalee Road exits, with the final turns onto Livingston and Vanderbilt Beach. That is your commute corridor. On tournament mornings, gate open for CME is 8:00 AM and for Grant Thornton rounds is either 8:00 or 10:30 AM depending on the day, which puts the peak inbound shuttle traffic squarely inside the normal morning window.
Public bus route 12 also serves the venue, with the closest stop at Airport-Pulling and Vanderbilt Beach Road, roughly a ten-minute walk from the club.
The overlap window is what makes this fall different
Any of these three storylines on its own would be a normal item in a Tiburon fall. A resort renovation. An LPGA finale. A Grant Thornton week. The reason to plan now is that they are stacked.
From August through September, the interior of the property is under construction, front entry is closed, and dining is in swing space. From late September through early November, the resort is finishing and reopening finished rooms, testing two entirely new restaurants, and staffing up. From November 19 through December 13, the Gold Course is closed to member play for two national broadcasts, and the driving range hosts a five-hour concert on a Saturday night in the middle.
For owners planning to be here that whole window, the sequence rewards two habits. Book Palmera and Fenrose reservations the week they take them, because the two new concepts will absorb the deferred demand from the September dining pause. And treat the Nov 19 through Dec 13 stretch as a single logistics block rather than two separate weeks.
For owners planning to arrive later in the season, the calendar suggests something simpler: the property you come back to in January will not be the property you left in April. Two of its restaurants will be new, its lobby will be new, and the club will have absorbed two televised events in the intervening weeks. That is a lot of change for one gate.
If you are weighing whether to be here for the reveal, or whether to buy in ahead of it, the timing is worth a short conversation. Armand Alikaj knows this address well and is happy to talk through what the fall looks like from the resident side of the fence. Call or text to get started.
