This summer, construction is scheduled to begin on the first PGA Village outside the United States.
PGA Village the Bahamas will be built on Cat Island, the sixth-largest island in the Bahamas. It'll be part of the 1,906-acre Cat Island Golf & Beach Resort, which is to include a casino, single-family houses and other housing types, a hotel, a tennis center, and a beach club.
Rees Jones has designed the village’s first golf course, which will be accompanied by condos, a hotel, a spa, a PGA learning center, and a PGA historical center.
A second golf course is part of the community's master plan, but it isn't likely to be built anytime soon.
Cat Island is being developed by Cat Island Partners, Ltd., a Bahamian company led by Newton, Massachusetts-based Southworth Development LLC. Southworth owns Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club in Machrihanish, Scotland and Coco Beach Golf & Country Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
David Southworth, the company’s principal, is a former president of Willowbend Developemnt LLC, a company controlled by Paul Fireman, the founder of Reebok. While at Willowbend, Southworth helped to develop Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The original PGA Village is in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and there's a PGA Village at Coyote Springs in Moapa, Nevada.
Friday, February 19, 2010
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