80 Years And Still Swinging

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The first clubhouse of the Royal Park Golf Club, circa 1925.

Mention golf around Vero Beach, and everyone is familiar with John’s Island Club, The Moorings Club, Hawk’s Nest and Orchid. But mention golf outside Vero Beach, and the name most people are familiar with is Vero Beach Country Club. VBCC is a microcosm of our community itself, its history paralleling the history of Vero Beach and its membership a roster of the genealogy of community leaders.

It all began back in the land boom days of the 1920s, before there was an Indian River County, when Vero Beach was simply “Vero” and the Vero Beach Country Club was known as the Royal Park Golf Club.

The Royal Park Golf Club was the brainchild of two famous names from Vero Beach’s past: Arthur G. McKee and Waldo Sexton. They are probably best known for another one of their projects, McKee Jungle Gardens.

Read the entire article in the February 2002 issue

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