SAN JOSE — Denied their bid to add a pool and gym, the couple who owned The Golf Course at Boulder Ridge have sold their 200-acre showpiece links.

The Bay Club Company, an “active lifestyle and hospitality” endeavor that owns 20 country clubs around the state — including two other golf courses — announced Tuesday that it had acquired the site above Almaden Lake Park for an unspecified sum.

“We felt this was a mutually beneficial opportunity,” said Lisa Graf, the company’s vice president of operations.

Graf said the company began courting the owners around the time that Santa Clara County denied an application to build a swimming pool and fitness center at the site in early 2015. Owner Rocke Garcia had said that they needed the additional amenities to remain competitive with other country clubs as the interest in golf has sharply dropped since 2001, when the club was built.

Garcia said Wednesday he “hopes the new owner can include all the things that they want to provide.”

“I feel good that someone is able to carry on what we started,” he said, “I feel great about that. But we are going to miss Boulder Ridge.”

Supervisors in a close vote agreed with restrictions from the 1990s that allowed the golf course to be built on what was then untouched open space, on conditions that no further developments be added.

Graf said the Bay Club model doesn’t require such on-site amenities as a fitness club, pool or tennis courts — they already have them at its nearby Bay Club Courtside in Los Gatos, with other nearby facilities in Santa Clara, Cupertino and at Santana Row.

“The approach is a family-friendly model of a traditional country club,” Graf said. “It’s much more modern and flexible to meet different needs.”

Members were given the opportunity to cancel their existing contracts or enter a new one with the cost difference refunded. Megan Devlin, the general manager at Boulder Ridge, said about 70 percent opted to stay.

It’s cheaper, but still not cheap: The buy-in ranges from $10,000 for an individual to $25,000 for a family, with annual dues approaching $1,000.

Josee Feezor, who has been a Boulder Ridge member for five years, said she appreciates all that the Garcias did for the club — Rocke’s wife Glenda had long served as general manager — but is optimistic that the new corporate management will ultimately work well.

“Glenda did such a great job bringing more women into golf here,” Feezor said, “but I feel like this is what the club needs. It has been too quiet, and I enjoy meeting people. I want this place to be full.”

Right now, membership stands at about 200. Devlin, who worked with the Garcias for the past year to facilitate the transition, said they hope to double that.

“That’s the number that the Garcias had as a goal,” she said. “And there’s only so much space on the course.”

Graf said that at this point, the Bay Club has no plans to expand amenities at Boulder Ridge, though they may seek course improvements, or expanded hospitality services.

Scott Sherwood lives below the hill and was one of the vocal opponents to the club expansion. He said that residents expect traffic to increase as the old club “always struggled to get membership up to planned levels.”

However, he said as long as the Bay Club is “a good neighbor” and abides by restrictions in place, such as a ban on amplified sound as well as no additional construction, “we are OK with the change in ownership.”

“But if they want to add restricted uses,” he said, “we may find ourselves back in discussions — this time with a big company instead of Rocke Garcia.”

Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.