The Monroe, N.Y., facility features an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Design course that opened for play in 1999, and the club is marking the milestone with special commemorative logos. The club has also outfitted 76 of its golf cars with the “Shark Experience.” The Golf Club at Mansion Ridge in Monroe, N.Y. is commemorating the…

The project in Wilmore, Ky., just outside of Lexington, will be anchored by a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, clubhouse and a lifestyle, wellness and activities center. The developers are citing Lexington’s high ranking on a list of desirable early-retirement areas as reasons to “believe the pieces are all together and the timing is right to launch a project of this caliber forward.”

Contributor Larry Olmsted compiled the list based on unusual location, historical significance, and the amount of work necessary to transform traditionally unattractive sites (flat desert wasteland, clay and copper mines, and a former cement factory) into acclaimed golf courses.