In Real Estate, Golf Ups Its Game

Bluejack National, a 755-acre luxury golf community scheduled to open in the fall, features the first Tiger Woods-designed golf course in the country. But the development—where homes will range from the mid-$300,000s to nearly $1.5 million—will also include orchards and gardens, a movie theater, bowling alley, skate park, miniature Fenway Park, 7-mile trail system and stocked fishing ponds.

These days, golf communities aren’t sticking just to golf.

“This is so creative—it will be a lot of fun,” says Philip Asherman, president and chief executive of CB&I, an energy-infrastructure company based in the Woodlands, Texas. He and his wife, Ellen, recently started construction on a $1.5 million, four-bedroom house at Bluejack for themselves and three teenage sons.

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