Greg Norman Design Featured in WaterColor Golf Collection Makes Vaunted List for Fifth Straight Year
(PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.) – Shark’s Tooth Golf Club – the award-winning Greg Norman design set along the shores of scenic Lake Powell – has been named to Golfweek’s prestigious list of “America’s Best Residential Golf Courses” for 2009.
Golfweek editors heralded the course’s relationship to the overall community plan, the variety, conditioning and playability of the layout, and “how pleasing and interesting the course is as an experience.” This marks the fifth consecutive year Shark’s Tooth has appeared on the vaunted list since opening in 2002 to critical acclaim from numerous national golf publications.
The residential ratings are derived directly from Golfweek’s annual list of America’s Best Courses, published each March since 1997. America’s Best Golf Courses are ranked by more than 350 raters throughout the country, who judge on the basis of 10 evaluation criteria. Rankings are calculated using a statistically rigorous process.
“We are once again honored to be included on Golfweek’s prestigious list of best residential golf courses,” says John Johnson, General Manager at Shark’s Tooth. “With the sheer number of courses in the U.S. and the other outstanding courses that are ranked and have come online over the past year, the ranking is a testament to the quality of this layout.”
Shark’s Tooth is part of the WaterColor Inn and Resort’s premier golf collection, which also includes Camp Creek, designed by Tom Fazio, and The Origins Course at WaterSound, designed by Davis Love III. Camp Creek and Shark’s Tooth are private courses available to guests of the WaterColor Resort’s 60-room boutique inn on the Gulf of Mexico and its luxury vacation rental homes located in the WaterColor and WaterSound communities. The Origins Course – designed specifically for beginners and families – is open to the public and juniors 15 years old and under play free when accompanied by a paying adult. Together, the three courses form one of the only assemblies of Fazio, Norman and Love III-designed courses under one flagship. For more information on the golf course and golf packages, visit www.sharkstoothgolfclub.com or www.watercolorresort.com.
About Shark’s Tooth
Designed by Greg Norman and voted the second best new private course by Golf Digest upon opening in 2002, Shark’s Tooth Golf Club was purchased by The St. Joe Company in 2007 to bolster its high-end, golf course holdings. The course stretches to 7,209 yards from the back tees and features five fairways that border scenic Lake Powell, two holes that play toward the water and numerous wooden cart path bridges that cross over streams and estuaries. Tucked among the oaks and pines along the shores of the historic lake, which has been designated an Outstanding Florida Waterway, Shark’s Tooth is a challenging course that co-exists with its surroundings. Grass from the Greg Norman Turf Company was used on the fairways, approaches and rough.
Shark’s Tooth is located just 10 miles from Camp Creek and the Origins Course at WaterSound, collectively creating one of Florida’s most exclusive golf destinations. Shark’s Tooth Golf Club is convenient to the location of a new international airport north of Panama City Beach, the first international airport to be built in the United States since Denver. The course is a Silver Signature Sanctuary Course as accredited by the Audubon Signature Program and is operated by Troon Golf, the leader in upscale golf course management.
About Troon Golf
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Troon Golf is the world’s largest golf management company, overseeing operations at more than 200 courses located in 31 states and 31 countries. Additionally, 36 Troon Golf facilities enjoy a Top 100 ranking by national or international publications. Troon Golf properties include Oneida Golf and Country Club, Green Bay, Wis.; Talking Stick Golf Club, Scottsdale, Ariz.; The Clubs at St. James Plantation,Southport, N.C.; Classic Club, Palm Desert, Calif.; Playa Mujeres Golf Club, Cancun, Mexico; and The Grove, London, England. For more information about Troon Golf, visit www.troongolf.com
About JOE
The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), a publicly held company based in Jacksonville, is one of Florida’s largest real estate development companies. We are primarily engaged in real estate development and sales, with significant interests in timber. JOE’s mission is to create places that inspire people and make the region an even better place to live, work and play. We’re no ordinary JOE.
More information about JOE can be found at our website at www.joe.com.
© 2008 The St. Joe Company. “JOE,” “St. Joe”, “WaterColor,” “Camp Creek,” “Shark’s Tooth,” “WaterSound” and the “Taking Flight” design are service marks of The St. Joe Company.
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