Coore and Crenshaw has ‘no plans for golf course in the Augusta area’

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – In about 50 days, Augusta turns into the middle of the golf universe, however recently, the Masters’ buzz has centered round a chunk of property alongside the river.

Phrase of a brand new golf course probably 10 miles from Augusta Nationwide has been spreading like wildfire on social media. And never simply right here. They’re speaking about it throughout the pond, and we don’t imply Ike’s pond.

It’s in Edgefield County, not removed from the Aiken County line if you happen to’re driving on Martintown Highway.

We acquired wind of this final week in order that’s after we determined to place our drone within the sky.

It began as a mere trickle…whispers of the LIV tour shopping for land a stone’s throw from Augusta Nationwide however as soon as it hit social media, you would say the floodgates opened.

Then it turned LIV Golf paid $36 million for 400 acres with Coore and Crenshaw engaged to construct a match course performed the week earlier than or after Masters.

Then got here a brand new course, participant housing, and a ladies’s match. Adopted by a meme. So who purchased it?

We checked, and nobody did… not less than not but.

GIS knowledge reveals the vast majority of this land is owned by C.R. McKie, a restricted partnership in Augusta. Gross sales knowledge seems to be lacking except the final time this property modified palms actually was 123 years in the past.

In the event you have a look at tax information, it appears C.R. McKie Enterprises has been piecing collectively an enormous piece of property right here since 2016. That’s three years earlier than the primary Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner and a full six years earlier than the LIV tour was formally born.

Additionally, North Augusta already has a LIV presence. LIV can also be the title of the developer behind Ironwood, the condos by SRP Park. Possibly that’s how issues acquired complicated right here.

One thing else to notice, Coore and Crenshaw’s web site reveals plenty of golf course tasks everywhere in the world. None of them are in North Augusta or Edgefield County. We reached out simply to verify.

Ben Crenshaw’s agent and enterprise supervisor tells us “we don’t have any plans to construct a golf course within the Augusta space. The social media blogs this weekend had been a shock to us.”

As for zoning, on-line maps word the parcel courses are ag-ag-farm, however if you happen to have a look at the zoning map Edgefield County launched again in 2019 as a part of its complete plan, the realm is clearly in vivid yellow underneath suburban density residential, that means 4 years in the past, it appears like this land was on a path to develop into a neighborhood.

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