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 About Mahogany Run Golf Course
A dream became a reality in the late seventies when two brothers born of a golf loving mother purchased a tract of land on the rugged north shore of St. Thomas large enough to build an 18 hole golf course. Jim and Robert Armour were the visionaries and developers of Mahogany Run.
In 1980 Mahogany Run Golf Course, a George & Tom Fazio design, opened for play. Golf Digest proclaimed it more of an engineering marvel than an architectural one as the course had to be carved and blasted into an area of land just less than 110 acres. With only 77,000 square feet of greens and tight winding fairways, this is target golf with beautiful ocean views culminating in the course’s Signature holes known as The Devil’s Triangle.
In 1994, Contran Resorts purchased the course. Despite several hurricanes, including Hurricane Marilyn in 1995, the new ownership was able to complete construction on a 300,000-gallon-per-day reverse-osmosis water desalination plant. For the first time, groundskeepers were able to keep the course fully irrigated year-round using the desalination plant and a new Toro Osmac irrigation system.
 In June 2004, Mahogany Run was acquired by Ginn Resorts, a Celebration, Florida-based firm that specializes in real estate development and sales, hospitality management and golf course construction and maintenance.
Open seven days a week, Mahogany Run is the only golf course on the island of St. Thomas, in the beautiful US Virgin Islands. The public course is located approximately 20 minutes from the cruise ship docks in the town of Charlotte Amalie and only 15 minutes from the ferry dock at Red Hook.
Mahogany Run has been under the direction of General Manager Kristine Macken since 1994.
Owner/Operator - Ginn Resorts
Ginn Resorts is one of the leading developers of high-end resort and residential communities in the United States, specializing in real estate sales and development, hospitality management, land acquisition and golf course construction and maintenance.
Current Ginn Resorts projects include RiverTowne Country Club in Charleston, S.C.; Ginn Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, Fla.; Tesoro and Tesoro Preserve, located in Port St. Lucie and near the historic town of Stuart, Fla.; Ginn Reunion Resort near Walt Disney World® and Bella Collina, a community just west of Orlando. Several other projects in South Carolina and Florida are in the planning stages.
Ginn’s master-planned communities offer residents and guests a wide variety of resort and club living options and lavish amenities. The company manages what it builds; earning a reputation as a quality-conscious developer that meticulously oversees its communities at every stage – from design and development to post-construction club management and operations.
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