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The Bear's Club marked a transition point in Jack Nicklaus's design outlook when it opened in 1999. His architecture had typically been analytical and, while still lovely, oriented toward factoring how players might break down the features tactically. That strategic backbone is present in The Bear's Club, but the team approached the design more holistically than they had previously, factoring in aesthetics to an unprecedented degree. Instead of building holes on a golf site, Jack and his associates created a golf environment, expanding and enhancing a dune ridge running through the low pine and palmetto scrub and anchoring large, sensuous bunkers into the native vegetation. The course is part of an upscale residential development near the Intracoastal Waterway, but it blends so well you wouldn't know it. The change in perspective that Nicklaus Design developed at The Bear's Club pushed the firm toward similar successes in the 2000s, like Sebonack (with Tom Doak, No. 43), The Concession (No. 133) and Mayacama (No. 137).

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