New golf course communities, master-planned developments, and major renovations reshaping luxury golf real estate. Best Clubhouse tracks the projects, architects, and developers building the next generation of premier golf destinations across North America.
Development
High Side Golf Club, a semi-private short-course club just north of Charlotte in Kannapolis, North Carolina, was scheduled to break ground Tuesday on two Kris Spence nine-hole courses, with opening expected in late fall 2027.
Real Estate
Staff in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, sat down with 13th Floor Homes about redeveloping the 174-acre Village Golf Club under Florida’s Infill Redevelopment Act. No application, home count, or sale is public, and eligibility remains unestablished.
Development
Bridgesong, a private golf and residential community on about 1,000 acres in Blanchard, Oklahoma, southwest of Oklahoma City, is being built around an Ernie Els Signature course expected to open in 2027. Membership, home pricing, and the clubhouse have not been announced.
Real Estate
Southampton Town this week adopted zoning that settles three lawsuits with Discovery Land Company, allowing The Hills in East Quogue, New York, to sell up to 177 golf memberships to people who do not own homes there. The club can now reach 295 members.
Clubhouses
This week’s stories show clubs investing in existing clubhouses, from Florida spending to a Dornoch table and a Georgia fire.
Clubhouses
Golf Clubs Mississippi broke ground Thursday on a clubhouse costing more than $3 million at Mossy Oak Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. It opens the company’s plan to join Mossy Oak and Old Waverly as one destination, with a second clubhouse, a connecting tunnel, and about 150 homes planned.
Real Estate
JLL Capital Markets arranged $49 million in construction financing for Farrell Estates, a community of 27 homes planned on the former East Course at Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in Wellington, Florida. The course closed in 2000. Investors have sued, and the developer has denied misusing funds.
Real Estate
The closed 148-acre North Shore course, once approved for 27 estate homes, is headed back toward golf after arsenic in the topsoil and a 2025 village code change reshaped the economics of the land.
Clubhouses
Breezy Point Resort in Breezy Point, Minnesota, broke ground Oct. 5, 2026, on the Ace Valley two-story social clubhouse, with Happy Dave’s and a pro shop, ahead of a summer 2027 opening beside Andy Staples’ new 12-hole par-3.
Clubhouses
Shareholders of Mid Ocean Club in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, have approved a major renovation of the clubhouse, with work set to begin in mid-January 2027. The project forms the first phase of a larger plan that will be followed by a Gil Hanse restoration of the 1922 C.B. Macdonald course.
Development
Construction is under way at Orange Hill on Johns Island, South Carolina, where Beau Welling is building the Kiawah Island Club's third course and a 9-hole short course. Both could open in fall 2027, with up to 120 residential units held off the core golf routing.
Development
Reef Capital Partners, based in Lehi, Utah, has launched Reef Destinations, seven resort, club, and residential properties in four states, joined by a new membership called Reef 365. The lineup includes Marcella, Black Desert Resort, and Sweetens Cove Golf Club.