Jupiter Hills Club

Jupiter Hills grew from a 1968 conversation at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, where former tour player and architect George Fazio, dining with auto magnate William Clay Ford and pros Jimmy Demaret and Jackie Burke, dreamed of building a great course somewhere warm. Fazio found his site on a rare sand ridge running along the Atlantic coast north of West Palm Beach in Tequesta, Florida, land with genuine elevation and sandy soil unusual for the region. The Hills Course opened around 1970 and is widely regarded as the high point of Fazio's design career, blending ideas he admired from Pine Valley and Merion. Because of the natural terrain, construction was economical, moving only about 87,000 cubic yards of earth. A second layout, the Village Course, followed in 1979, designed by George Fazio with his nephew Tom Fazio. The club has hosted USGA amateur championships.