The history and traditions of the game remain a stronghold here.
While some private communities are placing less emphasis on golf these days, at Loxahatchee golf is the primary passion, the heart and soul of this small-by-design club. Dottie Pepper and Mark Calcavecchia are currently members.
Over the years, Greg Norman, Beth Daniel, Dottie Pepper, Charlie Mecham, Gardner Dickinson, Jack Grout, and Toney Penna have called the club home. “It’s one of my most imaginative courses and certainly one of the best I have ever done,” says Nicklaus, who completed an extensive tee-to-green renovation of the course in 2016. Nicklaus designed the course as a “members’ course,” with flavorings of the olde Scottish game mingled with the finest characteristics of modern American golf. Gray ran with the idea and the course that would anchor the Loxahatchee Club-and be Nicklaus’s club before he opened The Bear’s Club-came to fruition in 1985.Ĭreated from a love of golf, and following in the tradition of the finest clubs in North America, Loxahatchee’s Signature Jack Nicklaus golf course was selected as the best new course by Golf Digest and continues to rate as one of the best in North America. In 1980, real estate developer Gordon Gray was enjoying a round of golf with the legendary champion in Naples, Fla., when Nicklaus mentioned he would like to build a championship course near his home in Palm Beach County. When Jack Nicklaus speaks, it pays to listen.
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