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.
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Cabot has announced Cabot Wilds, a new 2,500-acre golf, lifestyle, and residential resort near Oxford, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, with John Bragg and his family. Hart Howerton is master-planning the campus around a Jeff Mingay riverfront eighteen and a clubhouse program aimed at late 2027.
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Heritage Golf Group has acquired Old Natchez Country Club in Franklin, Tennessee, its 49th club and Nashville-market entry, with the club's existing 30,000-square-foot clubhouse now on the capital watchlist.
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IronCrest in Ocala, Florida, cut the ribbon on Phase 1 housing at The Club at Iron Lake on September 9, naming seven builders with Brije Homes first to break ground around the existing clubhouse.
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Passaic County awarded Benard Associates Inc. $6.19 million for Phase 1 of a new maintenance building at Preakness Valley Golf Course in Wayne, New Jersey. Phase 2 bids are due September 25, 2026.
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The Alabama Golf Foundation has announced Golf House Alabama, a $30 million public campus on about 80 acres in Irondale, Alabama, adjacent to Pine Tree Golf & Country Club, with groundbreaking aimed at November 2026 and an opening target of 2028.
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Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, has asked Palm Beach County to designate the land-lease club as the permanent United States Presidential Golf Course, with club-paid presidential lodging designed with GSA and the Secret Service.
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Firefly, a 700-acre luxury golf community in Spring Hill, Tennessee, is racing its first SWABACK-designed amenity campus toward spring 2027. Storied Development and Wheelock Street Capital report Fieldhouse, Golf Shop, and Outpost construction moving faster than expected.
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Legacy Golf Properties has bought Achasta Golf Club in Dahlonega, Georgia, its first club outside Texas. A design firm is already drawing a clubhouse update with a patio bar and dining area aimed at the mountain views.
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Cornerstone Club, a 4,800-acre private club community in Montrose, Colorado, is expanding its clubhouse campus under Reef Capital Partners. The August 13, 2026, plan adds new locker rooms, a bar and grill beside the 18th green, a spa and thermal village, a pool campus, and eight overnight cabins.
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Ohana Real Estate Investors bought Panther National in Palm Beach Gardens for $191.2 million in July and has now upsized its JPMorgan loan to $165 million. The private club's 58,000-square-foot clubhouse is slated to open this fall.
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Lodi Township filings put an 18-hole Hanse–Wagner course, a 12-hole short course, a two-level clubhouse, and 11 guest cottages on 333 acres south of Ann Arbor.
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Arcis Golf's flagship Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine, TX reopens after a multi-million-dollar renovation by architect Beau Welling. Stadium turf, new greens, a reimagined clubhouse — here's what it means for golf.