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The Founders
Club
Sarasota, Florida
The Founders Club is a brand new community crafting an
exclusive golf club bound by the ancient traditions of
the sport.
Description: The
Founders Club traces its roots back to John Hamilton Gillespie, who in
the late 1880s traveled from
Scotland
to the wild lands of “Sara Sota” with his clubs in hand and a vision
for what this land of natural beauty could become. Today, The Founders
Golf Club is coming to life as a
new, traditional golf club inspired by the ancient story of golf as it
was told in
Sarasota
.
Nearest Airport: Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport, 20
minutes
Amenities: The Founders Club, FL
- 7,094-yard, par-72, championship golf course designed by Robert
Trent Jones, Jr.
- 24,000 square-foot Golf Hall, opened November 2005
- Main dining room
- Intimate dining room for private parties
- Club Bar and Grille with fireplace
- Shaded dining verandah with fireplace overlooking the 18th
green
- State-of-the-art-fitness facility
- Men's and women's locker rooms featuring lounge areas with
card tables
- Massage therapy treatment room
- The lakeside community recreation area, available to all
Founders Club residents:
- Recreation center with social room
- Outdoor recreation area with basketball, sand volleyball,
picnic gazebo and grills
- Family activity area
- Two Har-Tru® lighted tennis courts
The new clubhouse, Golf Hall.
Real Estate: The Founders Club, FL
- 262 homes
- Homesites priced from the $400,000s
- Home/Homesite packages from low-$1 million and up
- 200 homesites have golf course views
- The remaining 62 are situated on either wetlands or preserves
- Estate homesites priced from the $500,000s to
over $600,000
- 13 stunning, golf-front cottages with Lowcountry-inspired
architecture
- Private, maintenance-free
- All other lots have been designated to five selected builders
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or 1-941-378-0900
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Exclusive and Accessible
With a deliberate nod to the game of golf's rich
history both in Scotland and "Sara Sota," The Founders
Club is designed to blend a pure golf experience with the area's natural beauty. Set within the sculpted grounds of a gated and guarded community,
The Founders Club is a classic golf club privately reserved with only
275 equity golf memberships.
A new club built reflecting the ancient traditions of the game.
The benefits of the limited membership include no
tee times and the freedom to walk or ride the course as desired.
The 18-hole championship course winds away from the clubhouse,
embraced by an inspiring landscape of more than 700 lush acres and
enhanced by a traditional caddie program and a full complement of golf
practice facilities.
The approach to the green on hole No. 3.
Beyond the winding entry drive of this guarded
sanctuary, the community's abundant landscape is accented by 90 acres of
picturesque lakes, and stands of pines, palms and old oak hammocks
that also provide unique canopies above the meticulously kept streets.
The Founders Club will offer only 262 homes with 200
enjoying direct golf course vistas highlighted by free-flowing
fairways, wetlands and natural preserves.
The golf course offers wide and stunning views.
The entry gatehouse, the golf clubhouse and the
homes themselves are designed to blend the private club nature of The
Founders Club with the beauty of these most pristine surroundings.
To preserve the sense of exclusivity
within The Founders Club, the developers have hand-selected a group of
homebuilders whose homes capture the spirit of community for the modern day
while giving a nod to history with designs that recall Sarasota’s rich architectural heritage.
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The grill at Golf Hall.
Though seemingly tucked away within a landscape
miles from it all, The Founders Club lies just a short distance from Sarasota’s rolling white-sand beaches
and downtown area with an exciting mixture of
attractions, restaurants and shopping.
Real Estate
The Founders Club is designed to accommodate just 262 homes, of
which 200 homesites have golf course views, the
remaining 62 are situated on either wetlands or preserves.
Five top-quality builders have been selected to build within the club
grounds.
Estate home lots, which
will feature one-of-a-kind homes that start around the low-$1 millions
and 3,200 square feet, can be purchased directly from The Founders
Club. Estate homesites are priced from the $500,000s to
more than $600,000. The buyer must use one of the designated Estate builders and commence building within 24 months of homesite closing.
An estate home.
A special option are the 13 beautifully designed,
golf-front cottages available from the renowned firm of Cooper Johnson
Smith Architects, featuring Southern Lowcountry architecture, fine
finishes and spacious designs.
The cottages, which offer
private, maintenance-free luxury and
lovely golf vistas, are located directly on the 10th
fairway adjacent to the Golf Clubhouse.
The golf cottages offer maintenance-free luxury and
views of the 10th fairway. All other lots have been designed to five select builders, with home/homesite
packages beginning in the low $1 millions.
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Golf
Carrying on the honorable traditions of golf that
J. Hamilton Gillespie first brought to Sarasota, renowned
golf course designer Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has fashioned a
dramatic and rewarding course for The Founders Club in the Scottish
links tradition.
Dining on the veranda at Golf Hall.
The 18-hole championship golf course takes cues
from the gently rolling terrain, set against a backdrop of centuries-old oaks, pines and palms, and highlighted by natural buffers of
untamed landscaping.
The 7,094-yard, 72-par layout offers an
unfettered route of play across fairways embraced by lakes
and natural wetlands. Furthermore, Jones has designated the course as
a "core" layout, meaning that once golfers step on the
course, they will not be disturbed by streets, interior homes or long
walks between greens and tees; they will experience pure, traditional golf in a natural
environment, the way way the game was meant to be played.
The No. 1 hole, framed by a stately oak.
The community's traditional golf clubhouse offers a quiet
intimacy and classic, understated luxury. The 24,000-square-foot
Golf Hall, designed by the award-winning architectural firm of
FleischmanGarcia of Tampa, will include a
full-service golf shop and adjacent golf cart storage,
along with an outdoor dining verandah surrounding an intimate
fireplace overlooking the oak-canopied 18th green.
The dining room at Golf Hall.
Additional features within the clubhouse include
a gracious main dining room as well as an elegant private dining room,
and a club bar and lounge featuring a fireplace with cozy, intimate
seating.
A state-of-the-art fitness center includes a
massage therapy treatment room as well as fully equipped men’s and
women’s locker facilities, which also feature lounge areas with card
tables and comfortable seating.
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The Team Behind the Concept
The Founders Club is being developed by The
Founders Club Development Company, L.L.C., whose
principals include Thomas Brown, Jay Tallman and Fred Starling.
Brown and Tallman head U.S. Assets Group, which
specializes in luxury residential development. The company's
impressive resume includes the exclusive golf communities
of Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club and Windsor. Other
condominium residences include Orchid Beach Club on Lido Key, Beau Ciel in downtown
Sarasota
and en
Provence on Longboat Key.
Orchid Beach Club on Lido, a luxury U.S. Assets Group
project.
Fred Starling directs The Starling Group, a
Sarasota-based full-service commercial real estate organization. Since
1981, The Starling Group has been involved in all phases of real
estate from acquisition, planning, design and construction to sales,
marketing and management. The companies of The Starling Group have
completed millions of dollars in real estate development on
Florida’s west coast, including executive centers, professional business
parks, banks and medical facilities.
For More Information
To request more information, or to set up a visit to The Founders
Club, please call the Sales Gallery, located at 3001 Founders Club
Drive, Sarasota, toll-free, 1-866-508-0900,
or 1-941-378-0900. Or visit the property on the web at www.thefoundersclub.com.
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