Eagle Harbor will add 18 holes, but not where you think — it will be 20-plus miles away.
East-West partners, the Eagle Harbor developer, has partnered with OakLeaf Plantation and will have an area of that giant development. The company will build a golf course as well as offering building lots for 1,400 homes.
The architect has not been chosen, but the Eagle Harbor architect, Clyde Johnson, has been on the property and probably will end up with the job. He also did St. Johns G&CC and partnered with PGA Tour pro Fuzzy Zoeller to do Jacksonville G&CC.
The original OakLeaf plan of a Bobby Weed-designed course has been dropped.
The course will be called Eagle Landing. Construction will start early in 2004 and the course will open in 2005.
OakLeaf Plantation is a 6,400-acre master planned community west of Argyle Forest which will be on both sides of the Brannan Field-Chaffee Road.
“We’ll make Eagle Landing as close to Eagle Harbor as possible,” said Roger Arrowsmith, who represents East-West here. ‘We’re just about finished in. Eagle Harbor — we have only two years’ of homes left, so we were looking for another site.”
Eagle Landing will be a public course and Arrowsmith said that his company would control staffing, rather than hire a management company.