Dumb Question

[skulldog]

I just listed for sale a 100 acres in southeastern mass and if a golf course is 6600+- yards. How many acres would I need to build in my example. I'm just looking for the calculation.

43560 square feet in an acre(in case you didn't know)

I flunked math, but boy can I sell

Thanks in advance

 

[acehistr8]

Friend and I battered an idea about like this a few years back. Totally depends on the layout I think, in terms of how the holes wind and such, but normally its recommended 150 acres for 18 holes unless it is a very compact flat course. Where is it and how much are you asking?

 

[skulldog]

1 million. Dighton. Ace I'm just looking for the math calculation.

Just for shits and giggles.

Thanks

 

[acehistr8]

Oh, sorry bout that, we didnt do any calcs. We sat down with a golf course design firm a few times. Part of the literature they gave us was a basic chart with recomennded land. All I can remember off the top of my head is the recommendation for the average 18 hole course was 150 acres, with $80K or so per hole development cost for what we were looking to do. As to how you calc that out, I havent the foggiest idea. I'm sure you could look up a few design firms though, they should have stuff like that on theri web site.

 

[Redfish]

We've built 4 or 5 courses over the past few years...and they were all at least 125 to 175 ac. Your course..

6,600 x 3 = 19,800lf
100 x 43,560 = 4,356,000 sf

4,356,000 / 19,800lf = 220ft (width of fairways) or 73.3 yds

I guess this is what your looking for. GL

 

[skulldog]

Thanks. Time to start marketing thid bad boy. Maybe do a nice par 3.

Thanks again

 

[acehistr8]

Cool man, that sounds sweet. I think a par 3 is the right size though. I was going back through some old golf magazines last night and the Nov/Dec Travel and Leisure Golf magazine has an intervew with a dozen or so developers where they talk about this fairly extensively - related to how theyve had to increase the acres required not because of length but because of how far new equipment allows you to spray bad shots. I will see if I can find a link online.

Article/Interview with course developers

 

[skulldog]

Thanks Ace. I'm going to e-mail those developers to see if they want to purchase the property since they have done work in mass already.