The organization plans to sell the Port St. Lucie, Fla., property, along with its PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance, “in the near future,” but released no other details. Members of PGA Golf Club, which includes the St. Lucie Trail facility, were told of the impending sale on April 12.
The PGA of America is cutting back on its golf-course ownership, putting its St. Lucie Trail Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., up for sale, the Stuart, Fla., TC Palm reported.
The PGA plans to sell the course along with its PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance. Both properties will be listed “in the near future,” a PGA spokeswoman confirmed on April 18, the Palm reported.
C&RB featured PGA Golf Club, of which the St. Lucie facility is a part, in its April 2017 cover story.
“This will enable us to focus on our core PGA Golf Club property, while delivering high-quality operations and course conditions,” the spokeswoman said in an email. “We will continue to be a vibrant and active member of St. Lucie County through charitable, educational and volunteer support.”
The PGA released no other details. Members of PGA Golf Club were told of the impending sale April 12 in an email from PGA of America President Paul Levy, the Palm reported.
“The PGA of America Board of Directors, after extensive assessment and consideration, and in the best interest of fulfilling the current strategic plan for our properties, voted to move forward with divesting both St. Lucie Trail Golf Club and the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance from our portfolio of properties,” Levy wrote.
The PGA opened the Center for Golf Learning and Performance in 1999. The center includes nine practice bunkers, a 15,000-sq. ft., 18-hole U.S. Golf Association putting course; a 7,000-sq. ft. Golf Association putting green; and on-course training with PGA professionals. It also offers private instruction and golf clinics, the Palm reported.
The learning center is just east of the PGA Golf Club, which comprises three championship courses—Ryder, Wanamaker and Dye—designed by top architects Tom Fazio and Pete Dye; the 35-acre practice facility; and the PGA Museum of Golf, the Palm reported.
The PGA Country Club, which had been a private facility since 2009, was transformed November 1, 2014, into the St. Lucie Trail Golf Club, a public course. PGA bought the course in 1995 for approximately $1.7 million, according to the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser’s Office. Its current assessed value is $1.1 million, the Palm reported.
Designed by Jim Fazio in 1988, it is tight, with small greens and water hazards on 10 of its 18 holes. As a public course, annual passes begin at $1,895. Rates are discounted for St. Lucie County residents from May through October, the Palm reported.
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