Add Florida’s panhandle to the growing list of sites for Dream Golf destination properties, joining the windswept dunes of eastern Colorado and a secluded sandy stretch of land in East Texas.

The newest public project from Michael and Chris Keiser — the sons of Bandon Dunes co-founder Mike Keiser — is called Old Shores and will start with an 18-hole course designed by Tom Doak. The Old Shores site is located approximately 30 miles north of the Panama City airport and is easily accessible from the popular resort communities along the Gulf of Mexico coastline on Florida’s panhandle.

Dream Golf was given the go-ahead to add Old Shores to the development portfolio that includes Rodeo Dunes (Colorado) and Wild Spring Dunes (Texas) after applying for and receiving a Development Order from Washington County in Florida. Michael Keiser called the newest Northwest Florida site “amazing and unexpected,” with several holes playing along or over parts of Long Lake.

“This land just makes you want to get to the next bend or over the next hill,” Keiser said. “There is so much variety – it’s hard to believe you could experience so many environments in one place. Every time I visit, I discover a side I had never seen before.”

Dream Golf’s focus on next-generation, experiential, destination golf started with Bandon Dunes on a remote stretch of coastline in southern Oregon and expanded to Sand Valley in central Wisconsin. The Keiser sons oversaw the development at Sand Valley and are heading up all of the newest Dream Golf projects.

“We are eager to continuing the process of presenting our plans for this extraordinary property,” Michael Keiser added. “I’ve walked the routing with Tom Doak numerous times, and I know this will be world-class.”

Doak, one of the most sought-after golf architects of the modern era, designed Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes, and The Lido and the recently-opened Sedge Valley at Sand Valley.

A timetable for the Old Shores project hasn’t yet been established.

It’s also not yet known whether Old Shores will eventually feature more than one course, as is the case at all the other Dream Golf properties. The patriarch of the Keiser family has famously said: “One course is a curiosity. Two courses is a destination.”

The project area covered by the development order spans over 1,400 acres, a plot that inludes Long Lake. But the full parcel of land acquired by Dream Golf and the Keisers might be even larger.

More golf could eventually (likely?) be in the plans for Old Shores, but the important takeaway is that the Dream Golf model of high-end public golf is now at least headed to Florida, which is home to the most courses in the country.

Florida currently has the most new course projects under construction or in-planning — more than 20 in total, according to the National Golf Foundation. Most of those, however, are high-end private clubs near Hobe Sound or Stuart in the southeast (Apogee Club, Atlantic Fields, Calusa Creek, and Rolling Sands) or on the west side between Tampa and Naples (Miakka, Outsider Club, Soleta, and Kinsale).

With Old Shores, Dream Golf is following a different path.