The Abaco Club on Winding Bay now open in The Bahamas
Stunning design, tropical links course highlight $250 million new golf and sporting retreat
Great Abaco Island, The Bahamas – The Abaco Club on Winding Bay, British entrepreneur Peter de Savary's $250 million golf and sporting retreat, has now opened with its stunning design and signature Scottish-style tropical links championship golf course dominating the landscape.
"I am confident that this will be recognized as one of the world's great getaways and become one of the treasures of this beautiful island, just 168 miles from Palm Beach," says its chairman and creator. "Here we offer a unique leisure lifestyle where members can relax with their guests and watch their real estate investment provide a return in both value and pleasure."
"The Abaco Club is the best new course I've seen this year anywhere," says top golf journalist, Lorne Rubenstein, after playing and testing the topography in late December 2005. "It was a privilege to stand in so many places on the course and be both enchanted and challenged."
The Abaco Club on Winding Bay has the trademark of all de Savary's elegant and diverse private estates, which have included all the St. James Clubs; Stapleford Park in Leicestershire, England; the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle; Carnegie Abbey in Newport, RI; Cherokee Plantation in South Carolina; and Bovey Castle in Dartmoor National Park in England, among others.
Sixty estate lots of one to two acres have been designated for members who wish to design and construct their own homes, which all have more than 200 feet of frontage and breathtaking views of the golf course and the ocean. Already 39 estate lots are sold and closed.
Situated on a peninsula of more than 500 acres and surrounded by its own 2.25 miles of deep, powder-sand beach and highlighted by bluffs, the club includes a village of 75 fully furnished, turnkey Bahamian oceanfront cottages available for sale. Seventeen have already been sold.
Facilities include the Scottish-style tropical links championship golf course – the first of its kind in the world – bone and deep-sea fishing, scuba diving and other water sports, a More health spa with Elemis treatments, horseback riding, tennis and other leisure activities.
A focal point of the club is the Clubhouse, a large octagonal structure 65 feet above sea level, where cooling breezes flow throughout the building while members dine and enjoy sweeping views of Winding Bay with its turquoise water and double crescent powder-sand beach. Down below, a beach bar and grill provides casual dining and is also the center of numerous aquatic activities, including snorkelling in a stretch of coral reef just minutes from shore.
Members are subtly pampered by an attentive staff in a casually elegant and low-key atmosphere intended to reflect the camaraderie for which de Savary's clubs have been noted.
The golf course was designed by Donald Steel and Tom Mackenzie, the pre-eminent Scottish links-style architects in the world. This is their seventh collaboration with de Savary – the others being in Scotland, England and the US.
Environmentally sensitive with a castaway flavour, this Bahamian experience is aimed at the discerning few who appreciate a tropical paradise that is easy to reach. The Abacos are a string of Bahamian islands about 170 miles east of Palm Beach, Florida. Great Abaco Island is more than 100 miles long – about four times the size of Bermuda – and has a permanent population of 13,000 and virtually no crime.
Great Abaco has two international airports, both of which have numerous daily non-stop flights to Miami, Ft Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Nassau. The largest airport and nearest to the club is at Marsh Harbour, which caters to both commercial and private jet flights.
In addition, the club's luxurious 12-seat turbo prop aircraft is available for charter from Florida and Nassau. The club has a private terminal at Marsh Harbour with customs and immigration, as well as fueling services.
Guests flying in or departing on private jets transit through the club's newly constructed, modern private terminal. The Abaco Club is a relaxing 25-minute drive from the airport.
The estate lots are priced from $875,000 and all have 200 feet of ocean, beach or golf course frontage. The turnkey cottages start at $1.75 million.
Membership in the club costs $75,000 and members who do not own real estate have the opportunity to rent an accommodation through the club's rental program.
Non-members can visit the club once in order to enjoy the spectacular beauty of the club and consider applying for membership.
For details and a prospectus call (888) 303-2065 or (242) 367-0077 or e-mail info@theabacoclub.com.
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