First-ever Jack Nicklaus Heritage course now under construction in Bahamas

Jack’s Bay, the luxe, 1,200-acre non-public membership group within the Bahamas, is including one other feather to its already spectacular cap: Building has begun on the world’s first Jack Nicklaus Heritage® Championship Golf Course, in collaboration with Nicklaus Design. The course, which is slated to open for play in 2025, will be part of The Playground, a 10-hole Tiger Woods and TGR Design that opened in August 2020 and options an creative, fun-for-all-abilities format with holes that vary from 71 to 163 yards.

“We’re embarking on one thing actually spectacular at Jack’s Bay,” stated Jack’s Bay Director of Improvement and Building Doug Maslo in a press launch. “The unparalleled normal related to the Nicklaus Design philosophy is centered on mixing pure parts with strategic challenges for gamers of all talent ranges to take pleasure in in a Nicklaus expertise. Along with the Nicklaus Design Workforce, we glance to each protect and improve the unimaginable pure fantastic thing about the land. A number of holes will hug the ocean, whereas the inland terrain affords outstanding options like rolling elevations, lakes, and even ‘blue holes’ resulting in the ocean. Once I first took the Nicklaus Design workforce on a tour of the property just a few years again, they advised that our property is among the greatest properties that they had ever seen for a golf course.”

Nicklaus Heritage®, a model born from Nicklaus Design’s Jack Nicklaus Signature® model, is comprised of senior designers from Nicklaus Design. These designers, who’ve labored with Nicklaus all through their careers and share his design philosophies and values, will construct unique course designs below the Nicklaus Heritage model, starting with the challenge at Jack’s Bay.

Jack’s Bay is positioned on the island of Eleuthera, on a stretch of Atlantic shoreline famend for its pink sand seashores. When the championship course opens, Jack’s Bay will change into the only destination in the world with Jack Nicklaus Heritage® and Tiger Woods golf programs. Jack’s Bay can be the primary Nicklaus-branded actual property group within the Caribbean. The preliminary Founder’s Providing of beachfront and ocean view homesites has already bought out, and the event has formally launched its 2024 Residential Assortment, which options 12 Atlantic Membership Cottages and Section 1 of branded Nicklaus Village residences.

“This can be probably the most spectacular piece of land that I’ve been blessed to work with in my profession — that is the chance of a lifetime,” Chad Goetz, who has designed golf programs world wide working for Nicklaus Design over the previous 25 years, stated within the launch. “We need to create a course at Jack’s Bay that harmonizes with the atmosphere and options strategic shot-making alternatives.  Most of all, we need to create a course that’s enjoyable for all sorts of gamers and immerses them within the pure splendor of this outstanding piece of land.”

“Jack’s Bay goes to be a really particular place for each golfers and householders alike,” added Andy O’Brien, Nicklaus Manufacturers president. “Once I was given the chance to expertise Jack’s Bay for the primary time, we toured homesites with unimaginable golf and ocean views after which meandered our approach alongside the shoreline to holes 7, 8, 9 and 10. The setting jogged my memory of a number of oceanside golf programs I’ve seen, however particularly, Pebble Seashore.”

Along with the one-of-a-kind golf expertise, further home-owner perks embody a member-only day dock, sports activities complicated, spa village, seashore membership, tennis, pickleball, a health and wellness program and a number of eating venues.

Yow will discover extra details about Jack’s Bay here.

JACK NICKLAUS at AUGUSTA (Autographed by Jack Nicklaus & Lee Wybranksi)

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The Jack Nicklaus at Augusta prints are now available to purchase! Act fast as this limited-edition offering won’t be around for long. These are autographed by The Golden Bear himself and famed artist lee Wybranski. 
 
About the prints:
 
When Wybranski set out to paint his Masters-piece, the only subject more colorful than Augusta National itself was Jack Nicklaus, the tournament’s greatest champion. 
Lee Wybranski standard JACK NICKLAUS at AUGUSTA print 
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Any student of Nicklaus will recognize the six iconic moments Wybranski captures from the Nicklaus-at-Augusta canon:
 
• Nicklaus’ first Masters win, in ’63, Big Jack in the gray and-blue golfing uniform of the era.
• His second, in ’65, a porkpie hat high on his head, a red-and-blue ribbon above its brim.
• His third, in ’66, swaddled in a yellow cardigan.
• His fourth, in ’72, in electric-blue pants.
• His fifth, in ’75, in bright white bell-bottoms.
• And his sixth, in ’86, in thigh-hugging gray plaid trousers.

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