Addison Reserve Country Club

Addison Reserve Country Club in Delray Beach, Florida presents a 27-hole Arthur Hills design routing three named nines — Salvation, Trepidation, and Redemption — through the South Florida landscape with water features, strategic bunkering, and dramatic green complexes that reward thoughtful course management.

Addison Reserve Country Club in Delray Beach is a 27-hole private member-owned community inspired by the architectural legacy of Addison Mizner — the Palm Beach architect whose Spanish Colonial Revival designs defined the visual character of South Florida's most celebrated resort communities in the 1920s — and whose three nine-hole layouts, designed by Arthur Hills and Drew Rogers in 1996 and renovated by Kipp Schulties in 2007, carry names — Redemption, Salvation, and Trepidation — that give the club one of the more distinctive golf vocabularies in Palm Beach County. The club's founding vision drew explicitly on Mizner's philosophy that "the intersection of man and nature could benefit the former without harming the latter" — a principle that Mizner applied to his architectural work in Boca Raton, Manalapan, and Palm Beach through the integration of Mediterranean architecture with Florida's subtropical landscape. Addison Reserve's development by Arvida/JMB Partners created a residential community of 717 homes on Delray Beach property that was designed to reflect Mizner's architectural sensibility, with the club buildings and landscape creating a visual coherence appropriate to the design philosophy it honored.

Arthur Hills and Drew Rogers — a frequent design partnership that produced dozens of Florida private club courses during Hills's most productive period — designed the three nine-hole combinations at Addison Reserve, opening in 1996 as the golf centerpiece of the residential community. Hills's characteristic design philosophy — strategic bunkering to define optimal approach angles, contoured green complexes that reward precise iron play, and routing that uses natural terrain efficiently — was applied to the Delray Beach property on three distinct nine-hole loops that can be combined in three 18-hole configurations. The naming of the nines — Redemption, Salvation, and Trepidation — reflects a playful engagement with the moral vocabulary of Western culture that gives Addison Reserve an identity distinct from the geographical or natural feature naming conventions common to Florida private clubs.

The names have been embraced by the membership as part of the club's character since the courses' opening. Members began arriving at the club in 1996, and by May 2002 Addison Reserve had transitioned to a member-owned and operated community — removing the developer-ownership relationship and establishing the governance structure that has characterized the club for more than two decades. The transition to member ownership gave the club's residents direct control over the quality and direction of the golf and amenity programs.

In 2007, architect Kipp Schulties — a South Florida designer who has worked extensively on renovation projects for established Palm Beach County private clubs — undertook a comprehensive renovation of all three nine-hole loops at Addison Reserve. Schulties's work updated the Hills and Rogers designs, addressing specific elements of the original 1996 construction that required modernization after a decade of play, while preserving the strategic framework that Hills had established across all three nines. Addison Reserve Country Club operates today as a private member-owned facility serving its 717-home residential community, with three nine-hole combinations, tennis, fitness, and comprehensive social programming as part of a Palm Beach County private club experience whose founding design philosophy honored one of Florida's most celebrated architects.