The project at Seagate Golf Club in Delray Beach, Fla. was led by world-renowned golf course architect J. Drew Rogers. The upgrade  brings infrastructure replacements to the tees, greens, fairways, bunkers, irrigation, drainage, landscaping and paths. The completion of the work was celebrated at an event on Dec. 4. “While it is such a big celebration for all of you, and rightly so, it kind of also brings to a close many of our efforts building the golf course, designing and growing it,” Rogers says.

The Seagate Golf Club in Delray Beach, Fla. on Dec. 4 unveiled its renovated clubhouse and 18-hole championship golf course, designed by architect “Gentleman” Joe Lee, The Palm Beach Post reported.

World-renowned golf course architect J. Drew Rogers oversaw the renovation at the site.

“While it is such a big celebration for all of you, and rightly so, it kind of also brings to a close many of our efforts building the golf course, designing and growing it,” Rogers told a crowd of about four dozen people at the course’s unveiling.

The renovation improves the course by bringing infrastructure replacements to the tees, greens, fairways, bunkers, irrigation, drainage, landscaping and paths, The Palm Beach Post reported. The course’s driving range and practice facilities also underwent upgrades.

The course closed in April to allow for its full renovation, The Palm Beach Post reported. In some cases, holes were complete redesigns.

Also newly renovated is the course’s 41,064-sq.-ft. clubhouse. Upgrades include architectural finishes in the lobby, meeting rooms, event spaces, locker rooms, corridors and the outdoor patio. The golf course and clubhouse renovations totaled $14.5 million.

The clubhouse features a dining room that serves lunch, brunch and dinner with both indoor and outdoor seating, The Palm Beach Post reported.

Some new touches are leather-tufted couches, a custom reception desk and brass-glowing alabaster light fixtures, The Palm Beach Post reported. It also has a curated art collection made up of abstract pieces and vintage photos by Slim Aarons of Palm Beach and the surrounding area.

The course’s last significant renovation was 10 years ago, after it was purchased and renamed “The Seagate Country Club” in 2012, The Palm Beach Post reported. That renovation was headed by architect Gene Bates, with some design consultation by PGA-touring professional Jeff Sluman, a member of the golf club.

“One of the things that I think is very well appreciated by the mayor and many of our public officials is that the Seagate Resort actually is a legacy property in this community,” said Richard Sands, Seagate’s owner and the former CEO of Constellation Brands, to The Palm Beach Post. “It’s got a long, great history and a hamlet, which is what this was before the Seagate.”

Sands is referring to the hotel which was built in about 1945 when an heir to Henry Flagler had 30 units constructed on the street facing the beach, The Palm Beach Post reported. They were called the Flagler Apartments, and they now serve as the Seagate Hotel’s south building.

In the early 1950s, American industrialist and philanthropist Arthur Vining Davis and a young real estate agent purchased the property along with the club — on the beach across the street from the apartments, The Palm Beach Post reported.

The pair turned it into the hotel and club that visitors have today, The Palm Beach Post reported. Davis’ real estate firm sold the property to a group of men from Michigan before they sold it to Seagate Development Corp.

The Seagate Country Club, located about 3 miles from the resort, is a 300-acre layout designed by Lee in 1973, The Palm Beach Post reported. It was known as “The Hamlet of Delray Beach” and was among the state’s first private clubs. It is available for use to any guest of the resort, resident of the country club’s community or member of the club.