Developers have plans to turn four of Tamarac, Florida’s eight golf courses into housing developments. Tamarac is northwest of Ft. Lauderdale.
One proposal would close one course at the private Woodmont Country Club, leaving another intact. The developer is proposing to build 255 single-family houses and nearly 61,000 square feet of commercial space for offices and restaurants.
“People are upset,” a local resident told the Sun Sentinel. “In order to do this they are eliminating one of our golf courses and that’s not an acceptable solution. We were never in favor of giving up open space for construction.”
The second course is at Colony West Country Club, developed in 1970 and owned by the Edward Rack Corp. The Glades course would become the site of 422 townhouses and two-story condos, if approved by the city.
Sabal Palm Golf Club, developed in 1965, is already slated for residential use, as is Monterey Golf Course, which opened in 1976.
That would leave only one facility in the city untouched — the 36-hole Woodlands Country Club.
The Woodmont plan “reflects the reality that golf course operation has become economically non-viable in South Florida where golf courses have become too numerous and more practical as residential development opportunities,” according to the Woodmont developer’s application.