"For its target audience - families and beginners - Origins is the way golf used to be." - Links
| Developer: |
St. Joe (NYSE: JOE), a publicly held company based in Jacksonville, is Florida’s largest real estate operating company. It is engaged in town, resort, commercial, and industrial development, land sales and commercial real estate services. The company also has significant interests in timber. |
| Location: |
Located along Florida’s “Emerald Coast” approximately 1.5 hours from Panama City Beach, and built upon a spirit of relaxed refinement, the WaterSound Community is a collection of neighborhoods woven through a former pine plantation and framed by a network of ecologically rich wetlands. WaterSound is closely linked, both in character and in function, to the nearby community of WaterSound Beach. Rich in native understory vegetation such as live oaks, palmettos and indigenous grasses, along with marsh areas and pine stands, WaterSound’s abundant flora provides a dramatic landscape for this developing community. |
| The Origins Course: |
Plays as a six-hole regulation course, nine-hole executive course, ten-hole par-3 course between 1,600 and 1,800 yards. Conceptually, designed to encourage junior golfers, beginners and families to participate in the game of golf and remain engaged throughout their recreational lives. Consistent with the Scottish origins of the game, in which six, nine and 12-hole courses were commonplace. Golf made simple and fun, again, yet challenging enough to retain the interest of avid players. |
| Course Designer: |
Love Golf Design (Davis Love III)
St. Simons Island, Ga.
Contact: Paul Cowley/Bob Spence, 912.638.6051
www.lovegolf-design.com |
| Course Builder: |
St. Joe |
| Engineer: |
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Lynn Haven, Fla. |
| General Manager: |
Will Hopkins, PGA Class A
General Manager, Camp Creek Golf Club |
| Golf Superintendent: |
Larry Livingston, Certified Golf Course Superintendent (CGCS)
Audubon International Steward |
| Course Specifics: |
Regulation six-hole course plays as three par 3s, two par 4s and one par 5; First hole, 425-yard par-4; second, 150-yard par-3; third, 160-yard par-3, fourth, 350-yard par-4, fifth, 130-yard par-3, sixth, 510-yard par-5. The nine-hole executive course consists of three par 4s and six par 3s. As a signature design element, the third hole will feature a bunker in the middle of the green. Converts to a 10-hole par-3 course via the use of alternate tee boxes and five smaller intermediate greens. |
| Grassing of the course: |
Greens – SeaIsle Supreme Paspalum
Fairways – Sealsle Supreme Paspalum
Tees - Sealsle Supreme Paspalum
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| Tee Boxes: |
Forward, middle and back |
| Total area: |
Approximately 40 acres, 25 turfed |
| Structure: |
Private, resort |
| Amenities: |
Golf shop in Village Commons, grill, cart storage |
| Golf Carts: |
18-24 |
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