Champions Retreat Golf Club in Evans is transferring to new ownership, according to a letter sent to members over the weekend.
Arcis Golf, a club and resort company based in Dallas, emailed a memo announcing it would be “imminently completing [its] acquisition of Champions Retreat Golf Club.”
The letter, signed with the name of Dirk Burghartz, president of Arcis Golf, goes on to say that the company expects “to close on the transaction very soon,” and that its representatives will be visiting the site next week.
“Our goal is to deepen our understanding of club operations and, more specifically, member preferences,” Burghartz said in the letter.
On Tuesday morning, the Columbia County Proposed Development and Planning Services Committee is scheduled to consider a request by Champions Retreat, currently owned by Evergreen Alliance Golf, for an alcoholic beverage license.
The county ordinance provides an exemption to meeting the distance requirements for establishments selling beer, wine and spirits “if the cessation of the operation of the establishment is for one year or less.”
Regarding the item, the county’s Development Service Division notes that Tower 3 of Golf Champions Retreat is currently operating and will continue to, “until the new business receives both county and state alcoholic beverage licenses.”
According to digital business search company Bizapedia, a Georgia company called Champions Retreat Arcis LLC, whose principal address matches that of Arcis in Dallas, was filed on Aug. 16.
Arcis Golf’s announcement letter touts that the National Golf Foundation named it among the
Top 100 Business in Golf. It has some 70 golf clubs and resorts in its portfolio, located throughout the country, many of which house restaurants with full bar service.
Many of the sites under Arcis Golf are concentrated in the Southwest, Midwest and Northeast. The Club at Weston Hills, a private golf club in Weston, Fla., is the only establishment it currently operates in the Southeast.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
