A luxury residential golf community spearheaded by golf legend Tiger Woods is opening this fall outside of Fort Worth, TX.
Bluejack Ranch is the 914-acre followup to Bluejack National, a highly-rated resort-style community and private club three hours away in Montgomery, which is the first Tiger Woods-designed golf course in the country.
Eventually, the new $2.5 billion Bluejack Ranch community will have 500 custom and semi-custom homes, ranging from 1,282 square foot, 2-bedroom casitas to estate homes on one-half to one-acre sites with a minimum of 4,000 square feet. There’s also the occasional sprawling mansions, at 19,000-plus square feet, which can run into the tens of millions.
Prices start at $775,000 for half-acre lots on which to build and residential products start at $1M, with an average home costing between $2 million and $4 million. Lot buyers must use a Bluejack builder.
“You live on 900 acres with every form of entertainment imaginable,” developer Andy Mitchell tells Realtor.com. “You don’t need a big home, necessarily. It’s like going to a resort, you don’t have to build your own game room.”
The courses, designed by Woods’ TGR Design firm and land planner Beau Welling, a firm based in Greenville, SC, has a championship 18-hole course as well as a “short course” with 10 holes, and a practice facility with driving range and three putting greens.
The standard course will stretch over almost 8,000 yards from the “Tiger tees” or longest tee boxes. It has been grassed with Stadium Zoysia.
Located in Aledo—a 20 minute drive from downtown Fort Worth—the community will also boast a private golf club, a working dude ranch, entertainment hall, podcast studios, multiple pools, tennis and pickleball courts, bowling alley, several restaurants, comfort stations, a spa and wellness center, all ages recreational center, and a 24/7 gated security.
The developer is also planning a commercial hub near the front “greeter’s barn,” filled with what the developer hopes will be “high-end lifestyle brands” that will suit the community theme of “laidback luxury.”
Building a Bluejack brand
Bluejack Ranch developer Andy Mitchell, co-chairman and co-owner, with wife Kristin Mitchell, of Bluejack Management Partners, first met golf legend Tiger Woods in 2013.
“He was just kicking off his design business,” says Mitchell. A mutual friend brought the pair together for a collaboration that led to Bluejack National, Woods’ first U.S. design project. (He had already worked on one in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.)
“We’re both fathers, our kids are similar age,” says Mitchell. “We’re literally one month apart. We’re a lot alike. We both love to win. I can’t hide it, he can’t hide it.”
“If we’re going to do something, he wants it to be the best.”
The developer says while both he and Woods were concerned about the courses, an even greater goal was integrating family into the community, making it a truly multigenerational experience. To that end, there’s a slew of amenities for kids and those who don’t tee off.
Mitchell stresses that the community will be the type of place where someone as famous as Woods can walk around or have dinner without being pestered for a selfie.
“You’re free to be Tiger Woods,” he says of the community. “Nobody is going to solicit you or ask for your autograph. If someone were to walk up to Tiger when he’s having dinner with his two kids, they wouldn’t be a member tomorrow morning.”
Welcome to Bluejack Ranch
“It wasn’t like I was looking to do another course,” says Mitchell, who re-teamed with Woods and joined up with pro golfer “J.J.” Henry on the second Bluejack golf community. “It just organically happened.”
Mitchell has had an eclectic career that includes founding private equity firm Lantern Asset Management. In 2018, the company snapped one of the most distressed assets on the market—the film library of The Weinstein Company, founded by disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Mitchell and his partners purchased the 277-film library out of bankruptcy for $289 million and later acquired Studios de Paris, producing popular series such as Netflix’s Emily in Paris and Murder Mystery 2, starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, and various movies, including some of the Liam Neeson Taken franchise.
It was the Fort Worth native’s love of golf—and family fun times—that led him to want to create a golfing community of “laidback luxury” in his home state of Texas.
“I love Tiger and I love golf,” he says. “But this real estate play is about multigenerational family club.”
To that end, the developer says his wife and business partner, Kristin, had lots of say over features that were designed to make the community engaging for everyone from grandparents to grandkids, and even those who have no interest in golfing.
He mentions Woods’ daughter, Sam Alexis, who is studying at Stanford University and focused on premed courses, unlike Woods’ son, Charlie, who is following in his dad’s golfing footsteps.
“She might want to bring her friends out, sit at the spa, do yoga, hang out and run and jog,” he says.
Then there is the dude ranch, with 10 horses, miniature highland cows, donkeys, a Labrador retriever, and even a small herd of longhorns.
“We lucked out, we bought three and two were pregnant,” he says of the breed of cattle known for its enormous horns. He says the cattle are “protected” and will never be made into burgers.
Experienced riders to beginners who need lessons are welcome to take out the mounts—and leave their continual upkeep to experienced staff. Mitchell says the ranch hands joked with him about the stable being as luxurious as the human homes. “They’d say, ‘Hey, Andy, nice horse mansion,'” he says.
But there is no doubt that it’s the 135 acres of golf courses, and the Tiger Woods aura, that are the main draw of the community.
Beyond the hefty home price tags, there are monthly HOA fees running into the thousands to keep the common areas and amenities in tip-top shape.
“This is about the lifestyle, and it’s not cheap,” Mitchell says. “But what we provide is not cheap. A luxury golf course like this cost millions of dollars a year to maintain.”
Another cost to living in the community is the private golf club, with one-time initiation fees up to $225,000 and up to around $3,000 in monthly dues, depending on type of membership tier and amount of golf access. “One size doesn’t always fit all,” he says.
But club membership isn’t guaranteed—a resident will still need to be invited and vetted.
“I can’t control who you sell your home to,” he says. “The way I protect the club is if you sell your home to somebody who should not be in the club—imagine the biggest villain you know—he will never get into the club.”
At the end of the day, Mitchell says Bluejack isn’t about luxury—or even necessarily about golf. It’s about shaking off the hectic outside world, spending time with friends and family, and relaxing.
“Bluejack is, ‘Why don’t you unplug?'” he says. “Come on out, turn your phone off, go hang out with cattle, be close to nature.
“I love it when members get here and say, ‘Andy, I need a little more Bluejack.”
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