Boca West's winter is printed out well ahead. Movie nights run through April, comedy nights are booked into December, and the golf competitions are listed day by day through Memorial Day. On November 19 and 20, the Après Ski Chalet theme nights take the Country Club to an alpine setting. The Course 1 grand opening is the one major date still marked as a target, and it depends on a Florida Power & Light line being rerouted.
The two kinds of dates behave differently. The events can be booked today. The openings are construction goals set during the summer, and the Board's most recent minutes show at least one of them being pushed by work the club does not control.
The Power Line Between Course 1 and Early December
Course 1 is the new championship course on the former Palmer I property. In an April 2026 announcement, reported by North Palm Beach Life, the club said work had started in March under Fry/Straka Global Golf Design. The plan is a 7,300-yard redesign plus a 9-hole short course and an 18-hole putting course on a 65,000-square-foot green, with two on-course hospitality stations, all within a $95 million capital plan.
The president's letter in the club's August/September 2026 magazine gave the date. It said the championship course, the 9-hole Short Course and the 18-hole Himalayan-style Putting Course were "all taking shape," and that the club remained "on schedule for the grand opening of Course I in early December."
The Board of Governors minutes from August 20, 2026, issued September 22, came after the magazine. In them, Director of Golf Travis Wehrs and Matthew Linderman reported:
"the FPL line that needs to be rerouted has experienced delays and that Management continues to work closely with the appropriate resources to move the project forward. Construction sequencing has been adjusted where possible to minimize the overall impact of the delay and maintain progress across the project."
The same minutes said 16 of the 18 greens and their surrounding cavities were finished and that "completing the remaining two greens remains a key priority." As of the latest Board update, the course was almost entirely built, and the schedule depended on a utility relocation that the club's own crews cannot finish on their own.
Every Opening on Campus, by Its Stated Target
Course 1 is not the only project with a date set during the summer. These are the targets as the club stated them, along with the most recent status in each source.
| Project | Target set in summer | Latest status in club documents | Source date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course 1, championship course | Early December grand opening | FPL reroute delayed; 16 of 18 greens complete | August 20 meeting, minutes issued September 22 |
| 9-hole Short Course | October opening | "Continues to grow in well" | August 20 meeting |
| 18-hole Himalayan-style Putting Course | Opening "later this year" | Taking shape | August/September magazine |
| 14 tennis courts at East Racquets | Completion "this November" | Construction "remains on schedule" | August 20 meeting |
| Golf & Activities Center locker rooms, two card rooms, multipurpose space | Reopening before Thanksgiving | Phase 1 "remains on schedule" | August 20 meeting |
| Administration and Operations building | Exterior by Thanksgiving, interior March 2027 | Roof installed, framing underway | August 20 meeting |
The rebuilt Golf & Activities Center locker rooms will reuse the old lockers. The magazine says lockers taken out of the existing rooms are being refinished for the new men's and women's locker rooms, and the Palmer, Fazio and Dye rooms are being refreshed.
Where the Two Calendars Meet in December
The golf committee published its 2026-2027 competition calendar in the same magazine as the early December target, and the first big member weekend of the season lands in that same window. The Member-Member is set for December 5 and 6. President's Cup online seeding is December 11 and the first round is December 12.
The golf chair's column introduces the schedule by saying all the major golf projects "remain on schedule," and it closes by looking ahead to the day when "the bulldozers, earthmovers, and sod crews of summer will soon give way to golfers, carts, and friendly competition." The tournament list itself gives a date for every event and ties none of them to a particular course. That lets the competition season run whenever the ribbon is cut.
Several events in the first quarter of 2027 center on short-game and putting play, the same format the new Short Course and Putting Course are designed for:
- January 4 and 5: Short Game Qualifier and Finals
- January 11 and 12: Putting Qualifier and Finals
- February 25: Putting Club Member-Guest
Other dates through the winter are fixed as well. The Governor's Cup has live seeding on January 8 and a first round on January 9, followed by the Couples Invitational on January 18 and the Senior Championship on January 23 and 24. Play for P.I.N.K. is February 3, the Super Bowl Golf Event is February 7, and the Club Championship plays February 13, 14 and 20. The Ladies 18-Hole Invitational on March 8 and the Ladies 12-Hole Invitational on March 11 lead into the Men's Two-Day Match Play Invitational on April 2 and 3 and the Master's Golf Event on April 4.
The same column says the golf operations team planned to introduce a new cart fleet and the Tagmarshal GPS system "in the fall." At the August meeting, Wehrs described Tagmarshal to the Board as a way to monitor pace of play and course operations.
The Weeks Ahead, in Date Order
The social calendar does not depend on any construction date. These are the events from late November through mid-January:
- November 19 and 20: Après Ski Chalet, "The Grand Après." The club's theme night turns Boca West into an alpine retreat with dinner, cocktails, live music, entertainment and dancing. The magazine's invitation says "no lift ticket required."
- November 24: Cory Kahaney. The first comedy night of the season.
- November 27 and 28: Season Kickoff Tennis and Pickleball Events. This is the weekend after Thanksgiving, in the same month the club set for finishing the 14 new East Racquets courts.
- December 5 and 6: Member-Member. Two rounds open the December golf calendar.
- December 9: Avalon. Wednesday movie night at 6:30 p.m. in the Golf & Activities Center, with a discussion led by a film critic afterward. The listing gives $15 per movie per person, with light refreshments.
- December 15: Yakov Smirnoff. The second comedy night.
- December 16: 9-Hole Twi-Night in sixsomes.
- December 28: Grandparent/Grandchild.
- January 16, 2027: Annual LIVE WELL Experience, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The film series goes on after the holidays, with Driving Miss Daisy on February 3 and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers on April 7. Wine & NINE comes back on January 21 and April 8.
Smaller Changes Around the Campus
Not every project this season involves bulldozers. The club's Chef's Garden has become the Beverage Botanical Garden, which grows herbs, fruits and botanicals for the bar. Drinks made with its harvest are marked with a leaf icon on the menu.
The summer president's letter described a reconfiguration of the Lifestyle Center: a new private Pilates studio, a dedicated Mindful Movement studio and a Recovery Zone for stretching and recovery, in the space across from the Fitness Reception Desk. The letter set the studios for completion before November 1 and said Vanderlinde Physical Therapy would open in the refreshed physical therapy offices at the beginning of October. The club's 2026-27 Lifestyle & Wellness guide adds red-light therapy, BrainTap sessions and new spa treatments. It also lists a March triathlon as a new program for the season.
The same letter says the Annual Calendar of Events will again be mailed separately later in the year, and that the club posts capital program progress on its Field Notes microsite. For members planning December, the most useful update will be Field Notes' next report on the FPL reroute and the last two greens on Course 1.
If you'd like a resident's view of how the capital program is reshaping the club, or a quiet introduction to the community this winter, Anne De Marzo and the De Marzo Luxury Group would be glad to help. Request a Private Tour & Community Introduction.
