Few private clubs in Florida carry the quiet mystique of McArthur Golf Club. Designed by Dick Wilson and opened in 1969, the course was built for the exclusive MacArthur Foundation community and has remained fiercely private ever since — largely unknown to the outside world by deliberate intention. Wilson, one of Florida's most celebrated mid-century architects, shaped a layout that works with the region's natural topography rather than against it, producing a course that feels more organic and less manufactured than many of its Palm Beach County contemporaries.
Hobe Sound sits in Martin County, just north of Jupiter, where the coastal flatlands give way to scrub oak, slash pine, and the broad tidal waterways feeding the Indian River Lagoon. The setting is quieter and more understated than the glitzier golf corridors to the south — a tone McArthur matches perfectly.
This is a members' club in the truest sense: unhurried, unranked by choice, and unconcerned with outside visibility. For those fortunate enough to play it, the experience is about the golf itself, nothing more and nothing less.
