Two golf courses at the Hilton Head Island, S.C., club will be added to the company’s management portfolio on October 1, expanding its local holdings to eight. Brown Golf offers members access to its other clubs, with free golf lessons and unlimited access to practice facilities.
Two golf courses at Palmetto Hall Plantation Club in Hilton Head Island, S.C., are on track to become the newest additions to the Brown Golf Management portfolio, a move that would expand the Bluffton company’s local holdings to eight, the Bluffton, S.C., Island Packet reported.
Palmetto Hall residents have been apprised of the pending sale in email updates from Heritage Golf Group, which manages the 36-hole complex for owners Arcis Golf. Rick Shoemaker, director of operations for Heritage Golf’s Hilton Head Island properties, confirmed his firm’s services are slated to end September 30, the Packet reported.
“That’s what we’ve been notified by the current owner to work toward,” Shoemaker said.
Brown Golf CEO John Brown declined comment, citing a confidentiality agreement, but affirmed his company’s continued interest in expanding its Hilton Head Island holdings. “We’re excited about future opportunities on the island,” he said.
Palmetto Hall members conceivably would transition into Brown Golf’s program, offering access to six other clubs in the area and 21 others along the East Coast. The offerings also include free golf lessons and unlimited access to practice facilities. In all, the Palmetto Hall addition will bring Brown Golf’s portfolio up to 29 courses nationwide, with seven others also acquired since the start of 2015, the Packet reported.
Arcis Golf acquired Palmetto Hall two years ago as part of a massive 48-course selloff by CNL Lifestyle Properties, which was looking to exit the golf industry. The Hilton Head facility opened in 1991 with 18 holes designed by Arthur Hills, following two years later with a second layout laid out by Robert Cupp, the Packet reported.
“Over the past few months, (Arcis officials) were aggressively looking to sell it,” Shoemaker noted. “It’s a fantastic property. But we don’t own it and the owner was looking to sell. A buyer was willing to step up and pay that asking price.”
Heritage Golf will continue to manage three other properties it owns on Hilton Head Island—Shipyard Golf Club, Oyster Reef Golf Club and Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club, the Packet reported.
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