World Golf Village
St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida · St. Augustine golf market
- Access
- semi private
- Holes
- 36
- Architect(s)
- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Bobby Weed, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen
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World Golf Village is a purpose-built destination in St. Johns County that the PGA TOUR helped found in 1998 around two signature-designer daily-fee courses and the World Golf Hall of Fame. The King & Bear (designed jointly by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Bobby Weed -- their only collaborative design) and The Slammer & Squire (Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Bobby Weed) give the development a name-brand golf pedigree unusual for a public/daily-fee facility.
For a golf-oriented buyer, the key distinction is that both courses are public, Troon-managed and bookable by anyone -- there is no private club gate to get through. What World Golf Village offers instead is a large, purpose-built residential ecosystem of 14 named neighborhoods organized directly around the golf, anchored by the guard-gated flagship King & Bear community and the age-restricted Cascades neighborhood, plus an optional paid membership program (golfwgv.com/membership) layered on top of public access for residents who want priority tee times and practice-facility privileges.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Both King & Bear and Slammer & Squire operate as public, Troon-managed daily-fee courses -- anyone can book a tee time without membership, and no World Golf Village home purchase includes or requires golf access. An optional membership program (details and current pricing at golfwgv.com/membership) layers priority access and practice-facility privileges on top of that public baseline for residents and others willing to pay for it. Evidence on gate access is genuinely mixed across the development: King & Bear itself is guard-gated, with ID required to reach the course and clubhouse, while neighborhoods around Slammer & Squire are generally described as ungated except for the age-restricted Cascades community -- this is recorded as a conflicting/mixed finding rather than a single gated status for the anchor as a whole.
Location & Surrounding Area
World Golf Village sits in St. Johns County near I-95, positioned between St. Augustine's historic core and the Ponte Vedra Beach/Jacksonville corridor -- a different golf-living model from either neighbor: public/daily-fee golf wrapped in purpose-built residential neighborhoods, rather than Ponte Vedra's cluster of private, membership-gated clubs (TPC Sawgrass, Sawgrass Country Club, Marsh Landing, The Plantation) or Palencia Club's single master-planned community model.
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