Winding Bay, Abaco.



The Abaco Club is a true seaside course as 14 holes play along the sand dunes and bluffs of Winding Bay.

Peter De Savary's Abaco Club on Winding Bay is the ultimate Bahamian hideaway. With its two plus miles of white sand beach, 75 Bahamian oceanfront cottages that overlook the bay (and a Bahamian sunset as orange as the rum Blasters at Pete's Pub) and Donald Steel designed links golf course, this 500 acre property is set to take its place alongside de Savary's other properties, including Cherokee Plantation between Savannah, Giorgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Bovey Castle in Devon, England, and Carnegie Abbey in Newport, Rhode Island, as some of the best private club retreats in the world.

Steel designed the 7,183 yard, par 72 course, which opened only a few months ago, to play out and back, mirroring some of Scotland's more famous courses, including Royal Dornoch. Steel, by the way, is responsible for the final design of Royal Dornoch's Struie course.
The Abaco Club's first seven holes play out, with the back tee box of the 312 yard, par 4, fifth hole seated squarely on the beach. The green, obviously, is reachable for big hitters (the carry is 245 yards over a large dune) but the safer route is down the narrow right side of the fairway. A good driver requires only a wedge to the green and a good opportunity at a well earned birdie.
On the subject of greens, the sand found on most of the holes at the Abaco Club conformed to U.S. Golf Association recommendations in their native state, meaning little sane had to be brought in from the outside, a rarity for courses in the Bahamas and Caribbean.

MEMBERSHIP FEE With a membership fee of only $65000, the Abaco Club is considerably less than most high end South Florida courses less than an hour's flight away from the club's private airport. Memberships come with the opportunity to rent the cottages.
Contact, telephone 1242 3670077
Email info@theabacoclub.com