Where Does Jack Nicklaus Live in Florida? Inside His North Palm Beach Home

Where does Jack Nicklaus live? The Golden Bear lives in Lost Tree Village, a private golf community in North Palm Beach, Florida. He and his wife Barbara moved there from Ohio in the mid 1960s and never left. Their home sits a short drive from the Bear's Club, the Jupiter club he founded in 1999. Here is what public reporting says about the house, the community, and the golf country that grew up around him.

Key takeaways

• Lost Tree Village in North Palm Beach has been the Nicklaus family home for about 60 years, and Jack designed the club's course.
• The price and size of his own home are not reported by any mainstream outlet. Figures on gossip sites are unverified.
• He founded the Bear's Club in Jupiter in 1999, and it became the home club for Rory McIlroy, Michael Jordan and other stars.
• Lost Tree Village set three price records in 2025, topped by a $97.5 million compound sale reported by The Real Deal.

Where does Jack Nicklaus live in Florida?

Jack Nicklaus lives in North Palm Beach, a village on the Intracoastal Waterway between Juno Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. His community is Lost Tree Village, a gated golf enclave with homes on the ocean, the Intracoastal and the Lost Tree Club course. Nicklaus Design lists Lost Tree Club among his courses and notes that he lives in the village.

The move happened early in his career. The Palm Beach Post reported in 2020 that he arrived in Palm Beach County in 1966 and had called the same place home for more than 50 years. Golf Digest has dated the move to 1965, when fellow pro Cary Middlecoff pointed the young couple toward Lost Tree. Either way, Jack and Barbara count among the community's earliest residents.

Lost Tree Village is small and very private. Real estate sites describe it as a few hundred homes on about 450 acres, though the community itself does not publish a count. The Real Deal calls it a private golf community and has covered its record sales closely since 2025. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses, so we name the community and nothing more.

Inside the reported Lost Tree Village home

This is the honest part. No major outlet has ever run a listing story on the Nicklaus house, because it has never gone on the market. So there is no reported price, no reported square footage and no reported bedroom count. Gossip and "celebrity home" sites circulate a $27 million value and a 15,000-square-foot size. We could not trace those numbers to any property record or news report, so we do not repeat them as fact.

What is on the record is thinner but more useful. The family has lived in the same community for six decades. The Post's 2020 profile, written for his 80th birthday, described five children and 21 grandchildren, many of them living in the area. Local real estate sites have also said the extended family holds more than one property inside the village. We could not confirm that from public reporting.

His business life sits a few minutes away too. Nicklaus Companies lists its headquarters on U.S. 1 in North Palm Beach, and the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation works out of Juno Beach. The foundation started in 2005 and, per the Post, had raised more than $100 million by 2020.

Why Jack Nicklaus chose North Palm Beach

The reported reason is simple: winter golf. In the 1960s a touring pro from Columbus, Ohio needed somewhere to practice from November to March. Middlecoff, a two-time U.S. Open winner, already knew the area and made the case for Lost Tree. Nicklaus had the money to pick anywhere in Florida, but he picked a quiet village with a course, water on both sides and an airport 20 minutes south.

That choice reshaped the neighborhood. Once Nicklaus settled in, the northern end of Palm Beach County became the place tour players wanted to be. Seminole in Juno Beach was already there. Later came the Medalist in Hobe Sound, McArthur, Old Palm, and the club Nicklaus built himself. Today Tiger Woods lives on Jupiter Island and Michael Jordan lives at the Bear's Club, both within 15 miles of Lost Tree.

The club he built next door

The Bear's Club sits off Donald Ross Road in Jupiter, about six miles north of Lost Tree Village. LINKS Magazine says Jack and Barbara founded it in 1999 and that the course opened on New Year's Eve that year, with Jack playing alongside his four sons and Barbara hitting the first tee shot. The club covers roughly 370 acres and runs as a non-equity, invitation-only club.

Golf.com has described it as a gated enclave with only a few hundred members and a reported initiation fee of $90,000. The same report named Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Ernie Els, Keegan Bradley and Michelle Wie as members. Jordan built an 11-room house there in 2010 for a reported $12.4 million. The Bear's Club community page tracks what is for sale inside the gates now.

For a reader who owns nearby, the club matters because it anchors prices. Homes at the Bear's Club have listed above $30 million, and the club's name adds value to the whole Donald Ross corridor.

Where else does Jack Nicklaus live?

Ohio still has a claim on him. Nicklaus founded Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, a suburb of Columbus, and it hosts his Memorial Tournament each spring. PGA Tour coverage of the event has described a Nicklaus home on the Muirfield Village grounds, tucked into the trees for privacy. He also has a museum on the Ohio State campus.

Even so, Florida is primary and has been since the 1960s. Ohio is where he grew up and where he returns for the Memorial and family events. North Palm Beach is where the mail goes.

What homes near Jack Nicklaus cost

North Palm Beach as a whole is more affordable than its famous resident suggests. Our MLS feed as of September 2026 shows about 300 active listings in North Palm Beach, with a median list price near $514,000 and an average of about 131 days on market. That median covers condos, older ranch homes and the village's non-gated streets.

Lost Tree Village is a different market. The Real Deal reported three records there in 2025 alone: an oceanfront house at $31.9 million in February, the Pinsonnault estate at $55 million in May, and a Wrigley family compound of two houses on 2.5 acres at $97.5 million in December. That last deal was the second-priciest in Palm Beach County for the year.

The towns around it sit in the middle. Jupiter has about 730 listings at a median near $875,000. Juno Beach, just south, runs about 86 listings at a median near $1.19 million. Palm Beach Gardens shows roughly 760 listings at a median around $898,000. Buyers who want the water without the gate can browse waterfront homes, while golfers can compare clubs on our golf and country club page. The wider picture is on the Palm Beach County page.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Jack Nicklaus live now?

He lives in Lost Tree Village in North Palm Beach, Florida, the same community he moved to in the mid 1960s. His company and his foundation both sit nearby, and several of his children live in the area.

Where in North Palm Beach does Jack Nicklaus live?

Inside Lost Tree Village, the gated golf community on the north end of the village. The community has ocean and Intracoastal frontage and a course Nicklaus designed. We do not publish the street.

Where does Jack Nicklaus live full time?

Florida. He has kept a home at Muirfield Village in Ohio since he founded that club, but North Palm Beach has been the primary residence for about six decades.

How much did Jack Nicklaus pay for the North Palm Beach home?

The price was not reported. The family bought in the 1960s, long before online records or celebrity real estate coverage. Any figure you see for the home's current value comes from an estimate, not a sale.

Can you buy a home in Lost Tree Village?

Yes, though inventory is thin and prices start in the millions. The Real Deal has tracked sales from about $30 million to $97.5 million on the water in 2025. Golf-course and interior lots trade for less, but rarely below the low millions.

Is the Bear's Club in North Palm Beach?

No. The Bear's Club is in Jupiter, about six miles north of Lost Tree Village. Nicklaus founded it in 1999, and it is the home club for Rory McIlroy, Michael Jordan and many touring pros.

If you own a home in North Palm Beach or anywhere in Palm Beach County and want to know what it is worth now, request a free home valuation from Pure Equity. Buyers can browse Jupiter listings or see luxury homes across South Florida. For more on the golf corridor, read where Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods live.

Sources

• The Palm Beach Post (via Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation), Jack Nicklaus at 80
• The Real Deal, Wrigley heir sells North Palm Beach compound for $98M
• Golf.com, Michael Jordan and the Bear's Club
• LINKS Magazine, Jack Nicklaus and The Bear's Club

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.