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Steve_ Shaffer

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Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« on: February 03, 2024, 11:12:34 AM »
You can join this new Greg Norman golf club for a measly $1 million membership fee...
Most of the 150-acre plot is for the brand-new Greg Norman-designed 18-hole private golf course, which totals 7,254 yards in length, features a world-class caddie program and won’t have a single tee time. The 20,000-square-foot clubhouse—between the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway—is boosted by a 12-acre practice facility and a nine-hole par 3 course as well.
“The course at Shell Bay will be one of the most unique, pure golf experiences I have ever designed,” Norman said in a press release. “Completely isolated from its surroundings, the walkable layout will capture the true essence of the game with immaculately conditioned fairways, sweeping sandbelt-style bunkers and contoured greens that test every club in your bag. It will be a place where you can totally immerse yourself in thegame.”Read more with pictures:
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/shell-bay-club-florida-greg-norman-1-million-dollars-membership-fee
 If you’re looking to be athletic, the $1 million fee also includes Shell Bay’s racquet club featuring hard, clay and grass surfaces and pickleball, because, of course. A wellness spa, basketball court and batting cages can also be found on the premises.
    That’s not all as a collection of Auberge Resorts-managed condominium and penthouse units, aptly called the Residences at Shell Bay, will soon be opening on the property. The entry-level price starts at $3 million for condos while penthouses will start at $11 million. The residences will have an on-hand butler service just in case you’re exhausted from all that golf.
A few Pros have already joined:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/06/south-florida-welcoming-its-first-new-golf-club-in-decades/
 
« Last Edit: February 03, 2024, 11:17:19 AM by Steve_ Shaffer »
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Ronald Montesano

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2024, 08:00:15 PM »
I bet that you can guess what all those pros have in common...
Coming in 2024
~Elmira Country Club
~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

John Foley

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2024, 11:24:09 AM »
How is there 150 acres of land that close to Miami that's undeveloped, let alone how did the squeeze a golf course, range and short course on it!
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2024, 11:47:26 AM »
Big bucks can do what they're doing at Shell Bay Club:
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone: "We're bigger than US Steel."
Ben Hogan “The most important shot in golf is the next one”

Colin Sheehan

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL New
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2024, 11:58:53 AM »
Looks like it was a normal Joe Lee Florida-course until 1999. Then holes were reconfigured for a massive clubhouse. Or is that real estate or a hotel?

Then, that design was blown up in 2018-2020 to become a reductive, cliche Raynor-esque geometric redo. That new 18 seems to have lasted about two years, which might set the record for shortest lifespan of a redo.  [Just checked, Greg Norman Golf Design got a mulligan and did their own total redo. h
ttps://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/norman-team-in-progress-with-renovation-of-the-diplomat ]
 
The most recent aerial on google earth is from March of 2023. Certainly plenty of ob and water. I suspect there's not one single good hole on the property, but it's location in the Miami marketplace, which has such scarcity, will ensure its success. 
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Colin Sheehan

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2024, 12:14:41 PM »
And a generous measurement of the total golf acreage: the course, range, practice greens, par-three, etc is about 98 acres.

Anthony_Nysse

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2024, 02:36:12 PM »
How is there 150 acres of land that close to Miami that's undeveloped, let alone how did the squeeze a golf course, range and short course on it!


It used to be The Diplomat Golf Club.
Anthony J. Nysse
Director of Golf Courses & Grounds
Apogee Club
Hobe Sound, FL

Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Shell Bay Club (2023, Norman) in Miami FL
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2024, 03:09:00 PM »
The club was originally named " The Shark Club" but was changed when the course/resort changed it to the " Shell Club."

https://golfproperty.com/communities/the-diplomat-golf-resort-and-spa/


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