St. Joe Company building new championship golf course for Watersound Club in PCB
PANAMA CITY BEACH — The St. Joe Company has announced that it is building a new golf course in Panama City Beach.
St. Joe is partnering with Hall of Fame golfer Davis Love III to build this new championship course. Along with Love, Watersound Club staff are working closely with Love Golf Design founders Mark Love and Scot Sherman.
The course will be part of Watersound Club and be situated north of Shark’s Tooth golf course and south of the Intracoastal Waterway.
According to a press release from the St. Joe Company, in homage to both the PGA great helping design the new golf course and the fact that it will be the third championship golf course in the Watersound Club collection, the new course will be named simply “The Third.”
"The Third is designed to comfortably span approximately 300 acres just north of another Watersound Club golf course, Shark’s Tooth," the release says. "The generous acreage allows the design team room to be imaginative in creating a layout that will please and challenge golfers of all skill levels."
The Love Golf Design and Watersound Club teams are making the golf course flexible for golfers.
"A unique 18-hole, Par 72 design with six sets of tees, allowing golfers to adjust the course distance to play from 4,900 yards to over 7,600 yards on a firm, fast-playing course" the release says.
"The Third" is going to be one of the newer projects that the Watersound Club has made this year. They are optimistic this will help their club gain members in coming months.
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In 2023, they have gained over 500 new members and now have over 3,100 members in the United States.
Construction on the golf course has already begun, and the St. Joe Company anticipates the course opening in 2025.
This article originally appeared on The News Herald: Davis Love III helping design new championship golf course for PCB
