There’s a easy reply as to why so many professional golfers (and different rich celebs) stay within the small Florida city of Jupiter: golf programs.
In reality, there are 16 golf programs inside a 15-mile radius of the vacation spot, each private and non-private, per Golf Digest. The number of taking part in areas and Florida’s heat climate and no state revenue tax have drawn the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and extra athletes to affix Jupiter’s inhabitants of over 61,000 residents over time.
Born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Eire, McIlroy, 36, has been a Florida native for a few years. He bought a house in Palm Seashore Gardens however relocated to Jupiter in 2017. His present residence — price roughly $18 million, per Realtor.com — was beforehand owned by fellow golfer Ernie Els.
McIlroy’s house is positioned contained in the gated group of Bear’s Membership, which options its personal eponymous personal golf course. The membership was based by former professional golfer Jack Nicklaus in 1999.
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“The membership possesses a memorable assortment of par-5 holes, anchored by the attractive residence gap, which options an inspiring greensite,” the membership’s website reads. “The lengthy pear-shaped inexperienced is tucked into the elbow of a lake, leaving a beneficiant bailout space to the appropriate. Simply past the water that guards the inexperienced sits the spectacular stone facade of the grand Tuscan-style clubhouse.”
Along with the close by golf course, McIlroy’s home options facilities resembling a house theater, tennis courtroom, out of doors kitchen, recording studio, spa and pool, per Realtor.com. The residence sits on 2.4 acres and contains 9 bedrooms and 10.5 loos.
Earlier this month, McIlroy and his spouse, Erica Stoll, finalized plans to maneuver throughout the pond into their newly constructed mansion in Surrey, England, with their 4-year-old daughter, Poppy. Per The Telegraph, the couple will nonetheless retain their Florida residence, which can function their “base” through the golf season.
Rory McIlroy’s Florida mansion Photograph through Mega Company
Not solely does fellow golf legend Woods, 49, stay close by McIlroy in Jupiter, however his roughly $60 million mansion is near his girlfriend Vanessa Trump’s residence, per Realtor.com. Woods bought his grand residence for $40 million again in 2006. His main residence is fitted together with his personal golf studio and placing inexperienced.
McIlroy and Woods’ different Jupiter natives and golf stars embrace Rickie Fowler, who bought his $14 waterfront mansion again in 2016. Golf Monthly beforehand identified that his residence’s entrance options what appears like a duplicate of the August Nationwide Golf Membership’s Magnolia Lane.
Fowler, 36, gave followers a glimpse on the entrance of his residence again in June 2020, sharing an Instagram video of himself efficiently taking pictures a trick shot.
Brooks Koepka additionally lives close-by in a $7 million residence overlooking the Loxahatchee River. He reportedly bought the home for somewhat over $3 million in 2018.
Golfers apart, a number of (potential golf-loving) celebrities have lived in Jupiter over time, together with Burt Reynolds, Alan Jackson, Michael Jordan, Olivia Newton-John and extra. Célion Dion reportedly offered her $38.5 million beachfront Florida property in 2017, whereas Serena Williams purchased her Jupiter residence for $8 million together with her husband, Alexis Ohanian, in 2020.
Bachelor Nation star Tyler Cameron was born and raised in Jupiter. Earlier this 12 months, he revealed that the home proven throughout his hometown date with Hannah Brown on The Bachelorette season 15 was not actually his childhood residence. “It was actually beat-up and as [my mom] did all that work, the Bachelorette producers informed us, ‘It’s too small. It’s not going to work,’” he shared in a March TikTok video.