Two of the most well-known golf design firms in the game have added new course projects, both of which will be the second at their existing properties.
In Northern Michigan, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have broken ground on the second course at Kingsley Club as the core part of a $40 million, multi-phase expansion overseen by the property’s owner and operator, Escalante Golf. The Coore-Crenshaw course at Kingsley will be located on a recently acquired 520-acre parcel southeast of the club’s existing land about 15 miles south of Traverse City, Michigan.
Clearing of trees on the routing of the new Coore-Crenshaw course at Kingsley began in early 2026.
Limited preview play is anticipated in late 2028, with a full opening planned for spring of 2029. Another element of the expansion plan at Kingsley is a new clubhouse that’s expected to open in spring of 2027 and will replace the club’s retrofitted construction trailer that’s over two decades old.
And in Central Virginia, Tiger Woods’ TGR Design will create a new 18-hole course at the Tributer Resort as a future member-only offering for the growing golf and wellness community.
Construction on the new course will begin no later than 2028, part of the ambitious expansion plans from Reef Capital Partners, the ownership group behind newer golf destinations such as Black Desert Resort (Utah) and Sweetens Cove (Tenn.).
The two new courses will eventually be added to NGF’s comprehensive database of U.S. facilities but for now are included in the NGF Construction Report that actively tracks all development in the U.S. and beyond.
Over half of the nearly 150 new course projects under construction or in active planning within the world’s largest golf market are private, a proportion significantly higher than the 28% representation of member-only clubs among existing U.S. golf supply.
Including pre-planning efforts, there are new course projects are in development in 35 states, among them five in Michigan and now the first new one in Virginia since the opening of Tributer’s existing Cutalong course in 2021.
Approximately 40% of active development activity is located in just three states: Florida, South Carolina and Texas.
