Golf Club Atlas
GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Steve_ Shaffer on February 03, 2024, 11:12:34 AM
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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 (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/
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I bet that you can guess what all those pros have in common...
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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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Big bucks can do what they're doing at Shell Bay Club:
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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. https://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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And a generous measurement of the total golf acreage: the course, range, practice greens, par-three, etc is about 98 acres.
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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.
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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/