Clubhouses
The Building Committee: Clubs Are Betting on What They Already Have
This week’s stories show clubs investing in existing clubhouses, from Florida spending to a Dornoch table and a Georgia fire.
Ross Campoli
Third-generation builder at J. Campoli & Sons, est. 1946, Bergen County, NJ. Studied architecture and art at Temple University's Rome campus. Founder of Best Clubhouse. Covering golf clubhouse architecture and luxury golf real estate.
Clubhouses
Cabot Wilds's clubhouse looks... familiar
Last week Cabot unveiled Cabot Wilds in Nova Scotia, and the clubhouse rendering stopped me cold. I thought they’d dropped a photo of Shinnecock Hills into the deck. Same long shingle roof, tall gables, and brick chimneys. Is this what you build a new resort around?
Real Estate
EXCLUSIVE: The $89M Sagaponack Compound with Its Own Private Golf Course
Listing agent Kieran Brew of SERHANT. talks demand for the $89M Sagaponack oceanfront compound with its own private golf course, and plans to showcase the property during the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills
Clubhouses
Aronimink Golf Club
Keen designed clubhouses at Pine Valley and Aronimink, two of America's most revered private golf clubs. He also built Reynolda House for R.J. Reynolds, now a nationally recognized art museum. This week, Aronimink hosts the PGA Championship for the first time since 1962.
Clubhouses
Medinah Country Club
In Medinah, Illinois, Medinah Country Club's clubhouse is about 120,000 sq ft of Moorish Revival. Richard G. Schmid (MIT) worked under H.H. Richardson and designed the house opened Sep 26, 1926: a dome, a sixty-foot rotunda, and a Gustav A. Brand mosaic. He also designed Chicago's Medinah Temple.
Clubhouses
Cypress Point Club
The clubhouse at Cypress Point was designed by George Washington Smith, the father of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California. Smith died six months before the building opened in 1930. Steve Jobs later bought one of his houses and spent 27 years trying to demolish it.
Clubhouses
Myopia Hunt Club
The clubhouse at Myopia Hunt Club was not designed to be a clubhouse. It was built in 1772 as a farmhouse for Colonel Robert Dodge, a Revolutionary War hero who fought at Bunker Hill. The club moved in, and much hasn't changed since.
Real Estate
This Week's Golf Real Estate Moves: April 28, 2026
Luxury golf real estate from the birthplace of miniature golf in Pinehurst to the Blue Monster's doorstep in Doral to the Ocean Course at Kiawah: explore this week's most exclusive golf course estates for sale as the PGA Tour returns to Trump National Doral for the Cadillac Championship.
Clubhouses
TPC Sawgrass
The 77,000-square-foot clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass was designed by Chapman Coyle Chapman Architects and completed in 2007, modeled after an 1888 Spanish Renaissance hotel in St. Augustine that launched the career of the firm that designed the New York Public Library.
Clubhouses
Merion Golf Club
The clubhouse at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania was designed in 1911 by Furness, Evans and Company. It still hides an 1824 stone farmhouse inside it, and a two-story locker room that has watched Bobby Jones finish the Grand Slam and Ben Hogan win the 1950 U.S. Open.
Real Estate
This Week's Golf Real Estate Moves: April 22, 2026
Luxury golf real estate from Kapalua to Big Sky to Jupiter: explore this week's most exclusive golf course estates for sale, from $11.15M to $16.6M, as the PGA Tour heads to TPC Louisiana for the Zurich Classic.
Clubhouses
The Country Club (Brookline)
The Country Club's primrose yellow clubhouse in Brookline started as an 1860 farmhouse. Today it is three stories of Colonial Revival clapboard behind the 18th green, still holding a room from the original structure and a copy of the USGA charter signed in 1894.