The Bear's Club
Fulfilling a longtime dream, Jack Nicklaus created a renowned golf club near his South Florida home that is both a celebration of his achievements in the game and a special retreat for members and their guests. Jack Nicklaus had long harbored a desire to bring a first-rate golf club to his adopted home of South Florida, a destination as fine and reflective of his commitment to excellence as Muirfield Village Golf Club, his masterpiece near his Columbus, Ohio, hometown.
He made the dream a reality in 1999 with the creation of The Bear’s Club in Jupiter, and he spared no expense in mind or motion to create another seminal golf experience. “Muirfield Village is my place to give back something to Columbus, Ohio, to where I grew up and where people have supported me throughout my life,” Nicklaus says. “But I live in Florida now, and I always wanted to have a very fine private golf club in my own backyard.”
At The Bear’s Club, a golf community nestled among 369 immaculate sylvan, sandy acres a mile from the Atlantic, Nicklaus expertly transformed the native environment with his exacting standards of design. The result is a gently rolling 7,164-yard layout that exudes a Lowcountry feel as it moves through a property rich in native vegetation, old oaks, pines, cypress trees, and wetlands areas.