New 862-home Port St. Lucie country club community to have golf course designed by PGA winner
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A new country club community here will feature 862 homes and a golf course designed by a PGA Tour champion, all as a component of the planned 4,000-unit Wylder development.
Developers expect the Glynlea Country Club — bordered by Interstate 95 and Midway, Glades-Cutoff and McCarty roads — to be open by the end of next year with the golf course, other recreational facilities and a number of homes complete.
"We love St. Lucie County," said Ed Burr, president and CEO of GreenPointe, the developer of Glynlea and Wylder. "Being able to put so many components together in Wylder makes it very special. Glynlea, as a golf course community, will put it a step above anything we've done in many years."
First course for PGA Tour winner
Jim Furyk, a 17-time PGA Tour winner, was on-hand to ceremonially tee off construction last month. Furyk is designing the course, a first for the longtime fixture of professional golf who once ranked second in the world.
The decision to build his first course on the Treasure Coast came more from existing relationships with the developers of Glynlea and Wylder, Furyk said. He plays every year in a charity tournament put on by Burr.
"I know the folks that are developing the land and I know the folks that are managing the golf side of things," Furyk said. "I wanted to design a golf course, and my friends were building a golf course community."
Playable yet challenging course
Furyk is excited by the fact that people will live around the club and want to spend time there, a trait of many of his favorite clubs. He continues to play on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour of Champions and was in Port St. Lucie fresh off a trip to Italy as vice captain of the USA Ryder Cup team. He's taken a hands-on role in this development.
"We started out by walking the property, crawling through the bushes and the weeds and seeing what kind of trees we had and what the property looked like," Furyk said.
From there came plans for the clubhouse and holes which, Furyk said, include incorporating existing wetlands and protected areas.
Furyk said he wants the course to be challenging, but still playable for average golfers.
It will be the first golf course Jacksonville-based GreenePoint has built since 2007, Burr said.
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Progress on 4,000-home Wylder development
There will be a number of developments within Wylder beyond Glynlea, Burr said. There already homes in Brystol, the community directly adjacent to the Glynlea site, which was launched earlier this year.
Burr walled Wylder a composition of about seven different communities.
Glynlea is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2024, Furyk and Burr said. Homes will be priced from the $500s, according to a news release.
Wicker Perlis is TCPalm's Watchdog Reporter for St. Lucie County. You can reach him at wicker.perlis@tcpalm.com and 504-331-0516.
This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Glynlea Country Club breaks ground, a part of larger Wylder development
