KINSALE GOLF CLUB
Renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse and his partner Jim Wagner have agreed to lead this project, which will be known as Kinsale Golf Club. Their work includes some of the most iconic golf courses both in the United States and around the world, including Winged Foot Golf Club (2020 US Open), Merion Golf Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, Quaker Ridge Golf Club, Castle Stuart Golf Links, Los Angeles Country Club (2023 US Open), Fishers Island Club and Streamsong Black to name a few.
This course will be playable for all levels of golfers. The club will have limited memberships available and we’re thrilled to engage one of the great architects to develop a world-class golf course in a truly outstanding location.
We are focused on developing one of the truly great golf experiences in Southwest Florida.
Kinsale Golf Club Yardage
| Par | Back Tee | Design Inspiration | |
| Hole No. 1 | 5 | 583 | Long |
| Hole No. 2 | 5 | 500 | Road |
| Hole No. 3 | 4 | 310 | Hog’s Back |
| Hole No. 4 | 3 | 250 | Redan |
| Hole No. 5 | 4 | 420 | Double Plateau |
| Hole No. 6 | 3 | 200 | Eden |
| Hole No. 7 | 4 | 420 | Leven |
| Hole No. 8 | 3 | 220 | Biarritz |
| Hole No. 9 | 4 | 410 | Dogleg |
| OUT | 35 | 3313 |
| Par | Back Tee | Design Inspiration | |
| Hole No. 10 | 4 | 300 | Lion’s Mouth |
| Hole No. 11 | 4 | 430 | Narrows |
| Hole No. 12 | 5 | 550 | Bottle |
| Hole No. 13 | 3 | 150 | Postage Stamp |
| Hole No. 14 | 4 | 385 | Knoll |
| Hole No. 15 | 4 | 445 | Reverse Cape |
| Hole No. 16 | 3 | 135 | Punchbowl |
| Hole No. 17 | 5 | 560 | Maiden |
| Hole No. 18 | 4 | 495 | Home |
| IN | 36 | 3450 | |
| Total | 71 | 6763 | (Note: Actual yardage may change) |
| Par | Back Tee | Design Inspiration | |
| Hole No. 1 | 5 | 583 | Long |
| Hole No. 2 | 5 | 500 | Road |
| Hole No. 3 | 4 | 310 | Hog’s Back |
| Hole No. 4 | 3 | 250 | Redan |
| Hole No. 5 | 4 | 420 | Double Plateau |
| Hole No. 6 | 3 | 200 | Eden |
| Hole No. 7 | 4 | 420 | Leven |
| Hole No. 8 | 3 | 220 | Biarritz |
| Hole No. 9 | 4 | 410 | Dogleg |
| OUT | 35 | 3313 | |
| Hole No. 10 | 4 | 300 | Lion’s Mouth |
| Hole No. 11 | 4 | 430 | Narrows |
| Hole No. 12 | 5 | 550 | Bottle |
| Hole No. 13 | 3 | 150 | Postage Stamp |
| Hole No. 14 | 4 | 385 | Knoll |
| Hole No. 15 | 4 | 445 | Reverse Cape |
| Hole No. 16 | 3 | 135 | Punchbowl |
| Hole No. 17 | 5 | 560 | Maiden |
| Hole No. 18 | 4 | 495 | Home |
| IN | 36 | 3450 | |
| Total | 71 | 6763 | (Note: Actual yardage may change) |
Golf Course Photo Gallery
The Inspiration
Hanse Golf Course Design work
at Ohoopee Match Club Hole No. 17*
Hanse Golf Course Design work
at Sleepy Hollow Hole No. 16*
Hanse Golf Course Design work
at Pinehurst No. 4 Hole No. 11*
*These inspirational photos are being used solely for the purpose of representing the Hanse Golf Course Design natural architectural style. The actual hole designs will not be incorporated in the final routing at Kinsale Golf Club.”
OUR VISION
Kinsale Golf Club is the preeminent golf club in Southwest Florida. At its core is a golf club—nothing more or less—that exists for the enjoyment of its members and their guests.
This club was formed not only for the love of the game, but out of an understanding, appreciation, and respect for the traditions, rules and honorable nature embodied within it.
“We’re excited to be working with the Soave Team and being afforded the opportunity to create something unique for Naples, Florida. The project goal is to use our natural, classic design philosophy to enhance the beauty of the Kinsale Golf Club property while building a fun and interesting golf challenge for players of all skill levels.”
– Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, Hanse Golf Course Design
FAQ’s
The following questions and answers are designed to provide an understanding of Kinsale Golf Club and the membership opportunity available at the Club. As these questions and answers are only summary in nature, you should refer to the Membership Plan for Kinsale Golf Club and the ancillary governing documents prior to completing your acquisition of a membership in the Club. Dated as of June 27, 2022.
CLUB INFORMATION
What is the Club?
The Club is being established to provide an extraordinary golf experience to its members, who share an unmatched love and appreciation for the game and prioritize their expectations accordingly. The Club is, by definition, a true golf club and its amenities are strictly geared to embracing the goal of an exceptional game of golf.
What is the Club?
The Club is being established to provide an extraordinary golf experience to its members, who share an unmatched love and appreciation for the game and prioritize their expectations accordingly. The Club is, by definition, a true golf club and its amenities are strictly geared to embracing the goal of an exceptional game of golf.
What amenities and features will be part of the Club?
Currently, the plans for the Club include an 18-hole golf course, driving range, teaching area, short game area and putting green, and clubhouse (the “Club Facilities”). Initial designs for the clubhouse contemplate a minimalist, but elegant style, with daily dining service for breakfast, lunch and beverages. The clubhouse is not anticipated to be open for dinner service.
How many members will be permitted to join the Club?
The Club is currently intended to allow no more than 250 active, dues paying members at any one time.
Will individuals have to apply for membership?
Yes. Prospective members will have to go through an application process and will be subject to approval.
Will the golf course be open year-round?
We anticipate opening the course for play in early October through the early part of June (the “Golf Season”). The Club Facilities will be closed during the summer to perform annual maintenance and keep our course in pristine condition.
How many days a week will the Club Facilities be open for member use?
The plan is to operate the Club Facilities 7 days a week during the Golf Season.
COURSE INFORMATION
Who is designing the golf course?
Who is designing the golf course?
We are thrilled to announce that renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse and his partner, Jim Wagner, have agreed to lead the design team.
What type of golf course will Gil and Jim be creating?
Our world-class course will be walkable and feature an organic design that respects and highlights the nature of the site. Players will meander through pines, cypress heads and undergrowth of various indigenous plants and bushes. Further details will be shared when they are available.
Has the routing plan been determined yet?
The conceptual routing plan has been established, with the final design anticipated to be completed by September 2022.
OWNERSHIP, TIMING AND FINANCIALS
When will you start selling memberships?
Who will own the Club Facilities?
The Club Facilities will be owned and operated by an affiliate of Soave Enterprises, Kinsale Golf Club L.L.C., a Michigan limited liability company d/b/a Kinsale Golf Club.
When will you start accepting applications and reservations for memberships?
We anticipate accepting reservations for membership in March 2022.
What is the cost to acquire a membership?
Each person who acquires a membership will be required to pay a refundable membership deposit which may be increased from time to time by Club Sponsor. This amount is subject to sales tax if applicable. The first 250 members will be entitled to receive a refund in the amount of the membership deposit actually paid, without interest, 30 years following the date the member joined the Club.
This is a general description of the membership program at Kinsale Golf Club and should not be relied on for the purpose of deciding whether to become a member. For complete details, please refer to the Membership Plan Documents. All items, costs, benefits and charges are subject to change without notice.
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THE TEAM
HANSE GOLF COURSE DESIGN
We are an intentionally small firm, dedicated to the proposition that golf courses are designed, restored and renovated in the field as opposed to solely on the drawing board. Formed in 1993 by founder Gil Hanse, who was joined in 1995 by partner Jim Wagner, Hanse Golf Course Design has patiently nurtured its reputation and its craft to arrive at a position of designing and restoring some of the finest golf courses in the world.
Hanse Golf Course Design Philosophy
- True artistry can be found in the fine lines of a pen and ink drawing or the rugged lines of a bunker edge. Our palette has upon it an abundance and variety of plants, grasses, and landforms, which provide our designs with unmatched textures, colors, and character.
- Nature is a complex system subject to human influences and interpretation. We look to nature for inspiration, but have confidence that our golf courses are not merely a replication of nature but a work of art clearly reflecting human influence.
- Our hands on commitment extends to hands on the equipment, whether it be a bulldozer or a shovel. We personally shape and finish every green and bunker on our golf courses. We have the calluses to prove it.
- Traditional golf courses focus first and foremost on the player and his or her experiences on the course.
- Pride in one’s work is manifested through the details and final touches. We provide a level of detail and subtlety to our work that is unsurpassed in the profession.
- We create courses that are simple and elegant in appearance, yet sophisticated in strategy and design.
- Our designs will not become repetitive. Every golf course site is unique and different; our designs reflect that individuality.
GIL HANSE
FOUNDER
JIM WAGNER
PARTNER
SOAVE REAL ESTATE TEAM
Over the course of 25 years in Naples, the Soave Real Estate team has earned a reputation as a trusted developer who considers every detail and delivers on every promise. Lifetime friends and partners, Anthony Soave and Richard Corace share a true sense of responsibility to the land – and to the people who live there. Together, they’ve developed some of the most exceptional real estate developments in Southwest Florida.
Previous developments include:
- Kalea Bay
- Club at Kalea Bay
- Moraya Bay
- The Dunes
- Regatta
- The Vanderbilt
- Multiple home sites in Pelican Bay
SOAVE ENTERPRISES
Soave Enterprises: Over the past five decades, Soave Enterprises has succeeded through investing in well-run companies and providing them with the tools to further enhance their businesses. We believe it’s important to look beyond traditional performance metrics.
From the start, Soave Enterprises has been defined by its entrepreneurial culture. The company was founded in 1961, by Detroit native Anthony Soave. From its humble beginnings, the company soon grew into one of the largest and most respected multi-state waste management and environmental services groups in the industry.
Over the decades, Soave Enterprises has strategically entered, and in a few cases exited, a number of industries – from luxury condominiums along Florida’s coast, to Chicago-area Budweiser distributorships, Midwestern metals recycling operations, Kansas City-based Mercedes-Benz retailers and a master-planned residential community near Washington, DC.
Current holdings also encompass a prized collection of real estate investments, industrial services and facility management companies, as well as hydroponic greenhouse operations.
Today, Soave Enterprises holds interests in a diversified portfolio of companies, which collectively generate annual sales in excess of $1.8 billion. We specialize in identifying and growing business potential, leveraging management strengths and financial resources to strengthen the businesses we acquire. With roots firmly planted in Southeast Michigan, we continue to build on our legacy of community support, as we believe that the health of the business sector is fundamentally connected to the health of its community.
ANTHONY SOAVE
OWNER & CEO
Soave’s residential background has roots not only in Southwest Florida, but Eastern Michigan and Virginia, where the company’s Brambleton community has consistently ranked in the top 10 Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) in the country.
RICHARD CORACE
President & COO
Richard Corace, a founding partner in Signature Communities, has more than 25 years of experience in the industry with over 5,000 homes and condominiums in Naples alone.
IN THE NEWS
This brand-new golf course is destined to be one of Florida’s very best
Golf Pass, April 2025
At Kinsale Golf Club near Naples, Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner have turned a flat, small site into something special.
When I looked up, I was in southwest Florida. When I looked down, I might as well have been in the Hamptons. Above eye level, luxury condominium towers. Below, golf holes that would have fit right in next door to Maidstone, Shinnecock Hills and the National Golf Links of America.
n addition to challenging your various golf skills – mediocre though they may be – great golf courses can play with your sense of place and time as well. That latter bit of alchemy usually requires some years of bedding-in and maturation, but Kinsale Golf Club, a new private club near Naples laid out by Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner – with Wagner sitting first-chair for the project – arrived practically fully-formed in December 2024.
New club in Florida offers fascinating example of great strategic golf on flat ground
Golf Week, March 2025
Kinsale Club, with its new private course designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, showcases what a great team of architects can do with a flat piece of land.
Given 174 acres to accommodate the entire club – including parking and all amenities – Hanse and Wagner had to construct all the intrigue from the course with hard boundary edges, a preserved area of wetland at the center and no distinguished landforms rising from the site just a few hundred yards from the Gulf of Mexico. To make it all work, they relied on classic architectural templates for inspiration, making golfers consider strategy and proper lines for every swing.
Jim Wagner and Rusty Mercer discuss Kinsale design and build
Golf Course Architecture, March 2025
Kinsale Golf Club near Naples, Florida, is nearing the end of its debut season.
The club, which opened in November 2024 and has just 250 members, was founded by Detroit native and long-time southwest Florida businessman Anthony Soave. Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner designed the course, built on 174 acres of undeveloped land, to pay tribute to Golden Age architects Seth Raynor and Charles Blair Macdonald.
The Most Exciting New Golf Courses to Play in 2025 Around the world
Bloomberg, November 2024
Kinsale Golf Club in Florida
The east coast of Florida has been undergoing a development boom, but over in Naples, on the peninsula state’s west coast, there has also been an expansion craze. Kinsale, built by Gil Hanse, proves that what’s old is new again, as it takes its inspiration from C.B. MacDonald and what became known as the “template holes” he created by scouring Scotland in the late 19th century for the best holes he could find. Hanse’s course is a modern take on those holes, and like those courses of yesteryear, it plays over a wide-open surface framed by native vegetation at the edge of the course. Opened Nov. 1, 2024.
11 new course debuts to know for 2024
Links Magazine. January 2024
On the west side of Florida, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner teamed to create a private course in north Naples inspired by the template holes and design philosophies of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. Kinsale is an intimate, golf-only private club—with a membership of 250—founded by Detroit native and longtime southwest Florida businessman Anthony Soave. It will be open from October through May of each year, so a fall 2024 debut is planned.
24 brand-new golf courses expected to open in 2024
GolfPass. January 2024
Naples, Fla. | Architects: Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner
Hanse & Wagner, who have done restoration work at some of America’s great classic courses, have drawn inspiration from C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor in laying out Kinsale, which will be a private, highly walkable, compact routing. The holes at Kinsale will be inspired by the many template golf hole concepts that characterize Macdonald and Raynor’s notable courses like the National Golf Links of America, Chicago Golf Club and more.
Hanse and Wagner pay tribute to Macdonald and Raynor for new design
Golf Course Architecture. May 2023
Construction has started on a golf course designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner for the new Kinsale Golf Club in north Naples, Florida.
The club has been founded by Detroit native and long-time southwest Florida businessman Anthony Soave, with plans for just 250 members. “Our vision is that Kinsale is a true golf club that will incorporate all the elements that provide our members with the experiences that make them smile and want to talk about,” he said.
Our team visited 55 new or renovated courses last year. These were the standouts
Golf Digest. January 2024
Each year Golf Digest honors the highest scoring new or remodeled courses in four categories: Best New Public Course, Best New Private Course, Best Renovation (courses that undergo conventional improvements like tree removal, new bunkers, altered tees and expanded or relocated greens) and Best Transformation (courses that are fundamentally remodeled with new or rerouted holes).