About:

Atlantic Beach Country Club is located on a beautiful 170-acre property in the heart of historic Atlantic Beach, Florida and only a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.

This one-of-a-kind private member-owned full service country club offers 178 single-family golf or lake view home sites, a new 18-hole, 6,815 yard championship golf course that appeals to all levels of players, a Tennis Center with 7 Har-Tru courts, a junior Olympic swimming pool, a fitness facility and spectacular 16,000 square foot clubhouse with outstanding levels of service.  The club offers dining options with a bar and grill as a gathering place for members and their guests, all within a few blocks of the ocean.

This is the first golf course home community to be built in Northeast Florida in the past decade and is one of the only member-owned private clubs under construction in the U.S.

Atlantic Beach Country Club also offers several environmental benefits to the community.  A recreation and greenspace easement is in effect, which would preserve more than 100 acres of green space in perpetuity. Highly-treated wastewater will be used to irrigate the golf course and the 178 new home sites’ landscaping through a partnership with the City of Atlantic Beach.

Atlantic Beach Country Club is only minutes from the ocean, the center of Atlantic Beach, shopping, dining, clubs, hotels, galleries and world-class sports.

History: 

Selva Marina Country Club was steeped in First Coast golf history. It was the original home to what would become The Players Championship, which was then known as The Greater Jacksonville Open, before the tournament was moved to Ponte Vedra Beach. Selva Marina hosted The Greater Jacksonville Open in 1965-66.

In May of 1955 Mr. Harcourt Bull, Jr. called a meeting among his 30 closest friends in the City Hall of Atlantic Beach to discuss entertainment in Atlantic Beach. Mr. Bull was hoping to inspire his group to create a club – golf, tennis, swimming, an airstrip, and maybe even boating– which would, of course, be the center of the social lives of Beach Area residents. Hoping the existence of such an establishment might inspire a housing boom in the area, Mr. Bull entered the meeting with a resoluteness he was well known for possessing.  The idea took hold rapidly and plans to make it a reality followed swiftly.

Locations for this vision were discussed. As Atlantic Beach had one golf course in its past, the location of that original course was a logical starting point.  RCBS Corporation, a company owned by the Bull family held deed to much of the land in Atlantic Beach. Mr. Bull graciously offered nearly 170 acres of this land mixed with swampland for this proposed Club.  The S.M. Company was formed with the sole task of arranging for funding and to develop plans for Selva Marina Country Club, a name that means “Rain Forest by the Sea”.