Golf legend Jack Nicklaus is planning a private club at a shuttered Lake Worth golf course.
The prolific course designer is planning Nokosi, a members only club at 6270 Lyons Road, the South Florida Business Journal reported. Nicklaus and his family have teamed up with Mark Walter’s TWG Global to redevelop the former Sherbrooke Golf & Country Club.
Records show GNP Lantana, a Delaware LLC, bought the 153-acre golf course for $15 million in October. The project calls for a redesigned course, dining, fitness, wellness, event and golf training facilities. The new course is slated for completion later this year, and construction for the club house and other amenities to begin then.
Nicklaus’ son Gary Nicklaus will oversee operations and development, the outlet reported.
Jack Nicklaus, now 86, has designed more than 300 golf courses around the world. He has designed and developed some of Palm Beach County’s most prestigious golf communities, among them the Bear’s Club in Jupiter, which counts Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroy among its residents. Last year, Ed Brown, the retired head of Patrón Spirits sold his Bears Club mansion for a record $48 million.
Nicklaus is a resident of Lost Tree Village in North Palm Beach, where he designed the golf course in 2002. In December, fintech billionaire Ronald Clarke paid $97.5 million for the waterfront estate of bubblegum heir William Wrigley Jr.
Northern Palm Beach County and nearby Hobe Sound in Martin County have attracted millions in golf course development in recent years. The Bear’s Club’s Jordan is developing Grove XXIII, a private golf club whose members already include Mark Wahlberg, Bret Baier, Wayne Gretzky, and the Frisbie Group’s Cody Crowell, who was featured in The Real Deal’s South Florida Top 100.
Steve Ross teamed up with Michael Pascucci to plan Apogee, a private club with an 18-hole golf course and 54 villas for member use.
Mike Meldman’s Discovery Land Company and Becker Holding Corporation are planning Atlantic Fields, a 1,500-acre development with an 18-hole golf course, equestrian facilities, a farm and 317 single-family homes. Last month, the Toronto Blue Jays’ Max Scherzer sold an under-construction home in Jupiter’s Admirals Cove for $23 million, reportedly with plans to buy in Atlantic Fields instead.
–– Kate Hinsche