TPC Jasna Polana

TPC Jasna Polana occupies one of the more remarkable estate-to-golf-club conversions in American golf. The 46,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion at its center -- designed by Wallace Harrison, the architect behind Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, and the United Nations Headquarters -- was built in 1975 as a roughly $30 million private country home for Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward Johnson Sr. and his third wife, Barbara Piasecka Johnson, at the time one of the most expensive private residences in the country. In 1996 the Princeton Regional Planning Board approved converting the 222-acre estate into a golf course; Gary Player designed the layout, and the club opened in 1998 as a private country club, later joining the PGA Tour's licensed TPC Network. Player himself reportedly called it 'the finest course of its type' he had designed.

In July 2024, Concert Golf Partners -- a national private-club operator and investment firm, selected by the Piasecka Johnson family from a field of roughly 20 bidders -- acquired the club, becoming its 34th property nationally alongside clubs like The Club at Pasadera (California) and The Club at Renaissance (Florida). Concert Golf has since committed roughly $3 million toward amenity investment at the property.

For a golf-oriented Princeton buyer, Jasna Polana represents the newest and most architecturally dramatic of the area's private clubs -- a modern, Gary Player-designed championship layout wrapped around a genuinely historic mansion -- but it is not a residential community. The 222 acres belong to the club itself; there is no subdivision, HOA, or bundled-home product to buy into. Its residential relevance instead comes from its setting: the corner of Province Line Road and Route 206, part of one of greater Princeton's most consistently expensive estate-home corridors.