Though The Dye Preserve is a relatively young golf club, it was created and developed with the richness of golf’s historic traditions.

In 1988, Joe Webster, current president of The Dye Preserve, and three partners bought an existing golf course that had fallen into disrepair in Jupiter, Florida. Webster called his old friend, Pete Dye, and asked him to design a new course. The famed architect bulldozed the old course and laid out a new one. A clubhouse was built, members signed up and Cypress Links, as the new club was called, opened its doors and ran successfully for more than a decade.

By 2001, however, the rapidly changing world of golf persuaded the owners that it was time to upgrade the golf course and the clubhouse. Cypress Links was dissolved, the members had their financial stakes returned in full, and the clubhouse was demolished. Pondering the next step, Joe Webster, once again, called his friend Pete Dye. “Hey Pete, how would you like to rebuild that golf course of yours down here in Jupiter?”

On April 1, 2002, Cypress Links ceased to exist and plans for the new club began, with Dye acting as the course architect. The new course, The Dye Preserve, was built in 129 15-hour days during the torrid summer of 2002 and opened the day after Thanksgiving of the same year.

The Dye was formed with 32 members and it is slowly, and carefully, moving towards the ultimate membership target of 300. It is an exemplary golf course where members and their guests can rest and refresh themselves in a pleasant and comfortable clubhouse. Yet, it remains, “A work in progress,” as president and founder Joe Webster describes it.

“Success in ventures of this kind ultimately depends not so much on the grasses and the greens of the golf course, or on the bricks, mortar and furnishings of the clubhouse, but on the human quality of the golfers who use them,” said Joe.