Applecross Country Club Taking Shape

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
May 2008
 

Construction on the massive Applecross Country Club development in Downingtown, Pa.—with an 18-hole Nicklaus Design golf course wrapping its way around a plan for 1,000 Pulte homes—is moving forward at breakneck speed, according to an article on DailyLocal.com, the Web site of the Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa.
 
The Applecross project was born in 2001; construction won’t be completed until at least 2015. But several of the holes on the 7,028-yard, par-72 private golf course have already been sculpted, and most of the others are in the process of being carved out of the countryside.
 
Applecross is the region’s first Nicklaus Design course and just the third in Pennsylvania.
 
The front nine will be seeded and irrigated by this fall, with the back nine to follow next spring. If all goes well, a grand opening could take place as early as the fall of 2009 or the spring of 2010. ClubCorp has been contracted to manage and operate the property.