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North Palm Beach Country Club
Public (Municipal)(Resident) - 18
951 US Highway 1
North Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach County
33408
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North Palm Beach Country Club is a municipal golf course that is open to the public and offers discounts to residents.
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In 1920, Harry Kelsey, the visionary of Kelsey City (present day North Palm Beach and Lake Park), planned for three 18 hole golf courses, all to finish at a grand clubhouse on the mainland shore of Lake Worth. The development of the clubhouse and the 3 golf courses were to be performed by Donald Ross.
Harry Kelsey hired Langford and Moreau to design the first 18 hole golf course. Only 9 holes and a small wooden clubhouse were built and the Kelsey City Golf Course opened in 1924.
In 1926, Paris Singer persuaded Harry Kelsey to build an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse on the current grounds of the North Palm Beach Country Club for his planned Blue Heron Hotel on Munyon Island. The Palm Beach Winter Club golf course was designed by Charles Blair MacDonald and Seth Raynor and the clubhouse was designed by Louis DePuyseger. The Palm Beach Winter Club grand opening occurred on January 5, 1927.
Harry Kelsey started to buy back property between the Kelsey City Golf Course and the Palm Beach Winter Club to fulfill his vision of building a third golf course between the 2 courses.
In March 1928, Kelsey went into trusteeship but managed to operate both golf courses.
The September 16, 1928 hurricane destroyed much of Kelsey City and the golf course suffered extensive damage and closed for a short time.
In 1930, Harry Oakes purchased all the unpaid tax certificates of Kelsey's East Coast Finance Corp. which included both golf courses.
After his land purchases, the Oakes family lived in the Palm Beach Winter Club clubhouse until they purchased a home in Palm Beach. Harry Oakes destroyed the Kelsey City Golf Course by removing its irrigation system and pumps. Oakes also used the southern part of the Palm Beach Winter Club golf course for horses.
In 1951, the Palm Beach Winter Club was sold to Ralph Stolkin. Stolkin defaulted on his loan in 1955, and John MacArthur was the owner of the Palm Beach Winter Club.
In 1956, MacArthur sold the Palm Beach Winter Club to the Ross brothers who refurbished the clubhouse and made a number of changes in the golf course and created the current footprint of the golf course by changing holes 11 through 18 to accommodate for development changes.
In 1961, the Village of North Palm Beach voted 601-80 to purchase the golf course, which it did in 1962, and changed the name of the golf course to the North Palm Beach Country Club. A new clubhouse was built in 1963.
The original Winter Club clubhouse was torn down in 1984.
On October 29, 1989 the golf course reopened, after being closed in April, from a $1M renovation performed by Mark McCumber.
In 2000, the clubhouse was renovated.
The North Palm Beach Country Club became a Jack Nicklaus Signature course after closing on May 3, 2006 and officially reopening on January 19, 2007 after the redesign was complete.
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