EarthGolf

Sorry, couldn’t pass up on that softball headline. Adam’s Rib Ranch is exactly what you’d expect from a development in the Rocky Mountains - beautiful and expensive.

The Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course at the new Adam’s Rib Ranch mountain development plans to tee off on Aug. 11.

The 1,600-acre, high-end resort community in Eagle is owned by Fred Kummer, the St. Louis-based construction contractor who formally owned metro Denver’s largest hotel, the 1,225-room Adam’s Mark Denver.

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The 18-hole Adam’s Rib course sprawls over 285 acres, and its club can accommodate 390 members. Memberships area available to both residents and nonresidents, and include a $150,000 initiation fee.

The course includes a 40,471-square-foot clubhouse with spa and fitness center.

Adam’s Rib offers 99 home sites in Vail Valley, ranging from roughly 3.5 to 10 acres. Site prices start at $900,000. Three custom homes are under construction, and five guest cottages can be rented by site owners, golf club members and their guests.

A 41,000 square foot clubhouse? (And why don’t these people round up to the nearest 1,000 square feet? Are you sure it’s 40,471 and not 40,472?) If the costs for the clubhouse are around $200/sq foot, that makes it an $8 million dollar place to leave your shoes. The PGA Tour’s upgrade of the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse seems to have sparked a clubhouse arms race, making the makers of travertine tile very happy.

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