UPDATE: 6/20/2023 – Beacon Hill Golf Course to Re-Open in 2024
The Beacon Hill Golf Club is in the news again today. According to a new article in the Washington Business Journal, “The Beacon Hill golf course may live again.”
The September 7th, 2022 report by Washington Business Journal, Managing Editor Michael Neibauer cites emails obtained from the Beacon Hill Community Association board of directors that the group Haymarket’s Resort Development Partners “has been concentrating on investors” in the past month and “made significant progress”.
According to Neibauer’s report, the next milestone in the project would for the Beacon Hill Community Association to execute a lease agreement by the end of September 2022.
Haymarket Resort Development Partners, led by Frank Denniston and W. Douglas White. Denniston has shared that the group would look to convert the 27-hole course to an 18-hole championship design under an initial phase of work, with a nine-hole family course to follow in a later phase. The plans also include new construction of a clubhouse with full-service dining and a golf game improvement center. In a statement, Denniston said, “We feel that our critical path will offer us the ability to open in 2024.”
Denniston is further quoted as saying,
We are excited about the prospect of reopening the fantastic Beacon Hill Golf Club, potentially making it one of the finest private golf club experiences in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area”
Denniston said in a statement. “Our firm is dedicated to completing the process and working with the Beacon Hill Community Association board of directors to deliver a product that the community will be proud of, while being commensurate with the exceptional real estate in the community.”
Read the full article from the Washington Business Journal here: Loudoun County’s Beacon Hill community nears deal to resurrect golf club
The Beacon Hill community, carved out of the 2,000-acre agricultural estate of 1950s radio and TV legend Arthur Godfrey, was developed in the mid-1990s, with the original Golf Club of Virginia debuting in 2001. But the club almost immediately fell into a deep financial hole, changed owners and closed only five years later. In 2013, Brett Amendola of Ashburn was sentenced to 84 months in prison for carrying out a Ponzi scheme tied to his purported purchase of the Beacon Hill course. Amendola’s scheme cost more than a dozen victims a total of at least $2.8 million, according to the Justice Department.
In 2014, the Beacon Hill Community Association acquired the course from its previous owner, Senior Tour Players Fund I LLP, for $1 and paid off a $25,000 back tax bill. The course was then reopened to the neighborhood as open space.