Seven Falls Golf and River Club
?>Hendersonville, N.C.; 866-473-2557
SevenFallsClub.com
If practice makes perfect, then the Seven Falls Golf and River Club near Hendersonville, N.C., is proceeding according to plan. This spring, the ambitious new 1,400-acre gated community in the Blue Ridge Mountains, some 27 miles south of Ashville, opens its 58-acre practice facility. The first of many community amenities to come, the game-improvement area includes a nine-hole short course and Golf Performance Center, with covered hitting bays, video swing analysis and a separate short-game practice area.
Next up on the tee at Seven Falls: The first Arnold Palmer Premier golf championship course. Scheduled to open this fall, the links style “core” layout is situated in a natural amphitheater set in the valley floor. The Palmer Premier brand ensures that each project bearing The King’s name will feature a national-tournament caliber golf course designed without compromise by homes or roadways and maintained to tournament-ready conditions at all times. Those standards will be matched by the quality of service within the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse, which broke ground last fall.
In time, Seven Falls will also offer a tennis center, a family activities center and a 15,000 square-foot wellness center, as well as an amphitheater, pocket parks and gazebos in its Town Village. On the banks of the French Broad River, which borders the property, will soon rise the River Lodge, home to a top-notch outfitter and pub. The river is ideal for canoeing and kayaking, not to mention a haven for trophy smallmouth bass.
The gated community will eventually comprise 900 residences. Half will be built on homesites, the rest will be town houses, condos and villas, including The Villas at Palmer Place, which will be available starting in June. Each comes ready to move into: professionally decorated, fully furnished, and with one-of-a-kind Arnold Palmer memorabilia.?>?>?>
Shooting Star
Jackson Hole, Wyo.; 877-739-8062 or 307-739-1908
ShootingStarJacksonHole.com
Contact: john.resor@sothebysrealty.com
“Golf courses should reflect the natural beauty of the setting,” says noted architect Tom Fazio. If that’s the case, then Fazio’s work at Shooting Star, a residential community taking shape in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will be a stunner.
The backdrop to Fazio’s 18-hole course, scheduled to open next summer, is the Teton Range—one of the world’s most majestic mountain views. The Snake River Ranch, a historic working cattle ranch, borders the course on three sides; to the north is Teton Village and the modest footprint of Shooting Star’s planned residential community.
The development of Shooting Star is proceeding according to a carefully crafted master plan that protects the property’s natural resources—including Fish Creek, a Class I trout stream—and Jackson Hole’s distinctive ranching heritage. Residential development will be limited to a total of 100 single-family homes, 34 hand-hewn cabins and 48 townhouses. More than 75 percent of the lots adjoin creeks or ponds, with 1,300 acres of the community protected by conservation easements. The first phase of Shooting Star will include approximately 20 single-family lots, averaging 1.4 acres in size, many situated near the clubhouse.
Last fall, Shooting Star released 50 charter memberships, allowing people who won’t be buying real estate in the development to still enjoy the golf course and its Western-style clubhouse, to be unveiled after the course opens in July, 2009.
Given 254 acres to work with, Fazio’s core course will be unhindered by views of homes or roads; stands of aspens, cottonwoods and spruce separate each hole. The formerly flat pastureland has been remolded into a gently rolling landscape sprinkled with nearly 50 acres of lakes, ponds and streams fed by the Snake River aquifer.
Though Fazio’s design allows you to feel like you’re “in the middle of nowhere,” Teton Village and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort are close at hand, and the galleries, shops and restaurants of downtown Jackson are a short drive away.
