old_palm20-1_1024

On February 4th, the Palm Beach County Golf Association will host its annual Awards Ceremony and Dinner at Old Palm Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens. The awards dinner will honor all the tournament champions from the 2013 PBCGA season as well as pay tribute to all the host clubs, volunteers, sponsors, and scholorship recipients. In addition to the awards, Steve Earsley and Fred Harkness will be inducted into the PBCGA Hall of Fame.

Golf Channel's Tim Rosaforte will MC the event and Old Palm resident will be the guest speaker of the evening, conducting a Q&A session with guests. For more information on the event or to purchase tickets, visit www.pbcga.org.

7915 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

istock_000021678672xsmall_365

As Managing Partner of one of the most successful luxury real estate companies in the Southeast United States, Rob Thomson has mastered many things.  One key strategy is to identify unique marketing opportunities, and secondly, network with the best!

Thomson will be attending the 2014 Luxury Real Estate International Symposium held in Monte Carlo, Monaco this year.  LRE is one of the world’s leading international networks of real estate professionals, and Waterfront Properties and Club Communities is one of the organizations longstanding and respected members.  Thomson is a member of Board of Regents and an exclusive, and youngest, member of the Billionaires Club (for real estate professionals who have sold over $1 billion).

This symposium will welcome the…

13976 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

istock_000002149649_small_849

The local golf pair of Mike Weeks and Scott Wilson won the 11th annual Southern Golf Association's Southern States Four-Ball event this weekend at  the Jonathan's Landing Old Trail Course in Jupiter.

Weeks (Jupiter) and Wilson (Palm Beach Gardens) finished with a two day total of 10 under par, winning the Mid-Am division by one stroke. Wilson made a birdie on the 17th hole that proved to be the victorious putt. Bill Luceno of Palm Beach Gardens and Patrick McCabe of Jupiter won the Super Senior Division with a two day total of four under par.

The event was supposed to be a 54 hole event but was shortened to 36 holes after heavy raines came through the area late Thursday night, washing out Friday's round of the competition.

In the professional…

8697 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

happycouple_425

South Florida offers such a diversified lifestyle.  Not only do the Jupiter/Tequesta, North Palm Beach, and Stuart areas boast some of the most stunning beach and waterfront residences on the eastern seaboard, it has fantastic things to do!

In addition, to the unlimited obvious water sports and fishing opportunities that present themselves here, the area has world class shopping and entertainment.  Unleash you’re your passion for fashion on infamous Worth Avenue, Palm Beach or stroll for antiques on “Antique Row” in West Palm Beach.  Find the latest pieces from Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and discover over 160 specialty shops at The Gardens Mall, including Saks, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Macy's, and Sears located in Palm Beach Gardens.

Palm Beach County…

8743 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

U-Tiki Restaurant


Rendering courtesty Town of Jupiter documents.

Adding to the ambiance and charm of the Town of Jupiter and other surrounding waterfront neighboring communities, like Tequesta, North Palm Beach, Juno and Stuart, there will be an additional waterside restaurant to frequent.  Located within the “funky fishing village” of Jupiter Inlet, next to Jetty’s, The Square Grouper, and across the street from Guanabanas, will be U-Tiki.
 
U-Tiki will be an open-air restaurant located at the Jupiter Inlet Marina.  It is tentatively scheduled for a “quiet opening” at the end of January.  The owners originally anticipated a New Year’s Eve opening had the weather and construction schedules cooperated. Jim Taube, an owner stated, “It is a little delayed. Like most…

28118 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

frenchmans_reserve_4_3710_01

Ken Duke has had a life time of adversity to overcome to get to where he is today. Diagnosed with scoliosis at a young age, Duke had a 16-inch metal rod surgically attached to his spine at the age of 15. Despeite the disability, and the metal rod, Duke still played high school golf in his native Arkansas and even managed to turn pro in 1994. After bouncing around on mini tours around the world, he finally made it to the PGA tour in 2004 at the age of 35.

10 years later, the Palm City resident is now a PGA Tour winner after winning the Travelers Championship in 2013, his first PGA Tour win in his long career. In addition to the stability and Masters invite that the win came with, the Golf Writers Association of America also deemed Duke worthy of the…

6107 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

dsc_0239_1750_01

Just two months removed from Bryan Haase and Pete Williams winning their respective divions of the 2013 season, the Palm Beach County Golf Association has announced its 2014 season schedule.

The 2014 PBCGA Championship season will kick off March 15-16 at the Spring Four Ball event held at the Santa Lucia River Club in Port St. Lucie and will wrap up once again at the Tour Championship presented by Tiger Woods in November.

Like in years past, some of the best courses in our area will host events on the PBCGA schedule. The Palm Beach International event will be moving to the Fazio course at PGA National in 2014. Last year the event was held at Ironhorse Country Club. Other area courses that will host events include Dye Preserve, both of Jonathans…

5458 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

rory_honda_classic_640

While Rory Mcllroy struggled to win on the golf course in 2013, the Palm Beach Gardens resident might have already claimed the biggest win of 2014 just two days into the new year.

That's because on Tuesday, the Bears Club member and former world number one, proposed to longtime girlfiend and tennis star Caroline Wozniakci. Mcllroy proposed to Wozniacki while the couple was in Syndey, Australia where the tennis star was prepparing for the Australian Open.

Mcllroy and Wozniacki first began dating in the summer of 2011, shortly after Mcllroy won his first major at the U.S. Open. During the course of their relationship, they have each achieved the number one world ranking in their respective sports. Entering 2014, Wozniacki sits 10th in the WTA…

3977 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post


Compliments of The Palm Beach Post.


The Palm Beach Post released the “priciest real estate deal of the year in Palm Beach county” was to a substantial developer this week.  The Kolter Group paid $112 million for a prime tract of land located in Palm Beach Gardens known as Briger Forest.


Briger Forest is a near 700-acre parcel of land located, across the street from Scripps Florida and Max Planck on Donald Ross Road in the Abacoa development and slated to become the biotech research hub of Palm Beach County. This is the largest piece of undeveloped land along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County.

Kolter Group is a well-known and respected developer.  They are a “diversified real estate development and investment firm that has invested in projects with…

40653 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post

istock_000021850474xsmall_425

Grab your holiday spirit, Santa hats, reindeer antlers, ugliest Christmas T-shirt (a sweater just will not work) and others - make your own Christmas Paddle Board Adventure!   The 1st Annual Holiday Dress Up Sup! Paddle Board Adventure just took place last Friday. It was a guided eco paddle tour hosted by Loggerhead Marinelife Center. They partnered up with Blueline Paddleboards and led guests, with biologists and staff, through mangrove channels and seagrass beds up the Loxahatchee River and the Jupiter Inlet. For information of the next guided paddle tour, please visit Marinelife.org.

There isn’t any reason for locals, and visitors, not to paddle up through the Jupiter Inlet, beautiful Intracoastal Waterway or the tranquil Loxahatchee River and spread…

7828 Views, 0 Comments

Read Full Post