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Links Golf Club announced that they've partnered with architecture practice Clayton, DeVries, & Pont (CDP) to renovate Spey Bay Golf Course in Scotland.
The Deets
- The renovation is set to begin in the fall of 2023.
- The project will include a substantial renovation to focus on maximizing the dramatic coastline and enhancing shot variety and playability throughout the course.
- CDP, founded in 2019, is the partnership of Mike Clayton, Mike DeVries, and Frank Pont, three of the world’s foremost architecture practices that have helped deliver some of the world’s top-rated golf courses.
❗ Why It Matters
It's another big step after the course acquisition. In a lot of ways, what Links Golf Club does with Spey Bay as far as membership access and how they handle the quality and scale of the renovation process will inform LinksDAO members on how the team will approach future endeavors.
🎤 Community Quotes
Spey Bay's rich history, classic coastal setting, and location in one of the hottest emerging regions for golf travel perfectly complements our mission to build the modern golf membership. We're excited to work with the brilliant minds at CDP, who share our vision to create an innovative, unique, and world-class golf experience along the truly stunning Scottish coast.Jim Daily, Links Golf Club founder and CEO
LinksDAO announced that the Spey Bay transaction has closed.
🔙 Back It Up
Spey Bay Golf Club is a Scottish links course built in 1907 right on the North Sea, with 12 holes directly on the water.
Links Golf Club placed a bid on the Scottish golf course back in February before winning the bid in mid-March.
❗ Why It Matters
Now that it's official and the acquisition has been finalized, the LinksDAO team can move forward with everything that comes next.
The pricing for the membership tiers (of which there are three: Gold, Platinum (100 spots), and Diamond (18 spots)) hasn't been revealed yet, but perhaps it could provide a blueprint or framework for how the membership system might look at future golf courses that are acquired in the U.S.
🎬 Take Action
LinksDAO NFT holders can reserve their membership with a $100 fully refundable deposit and secure their spot as a founding member at Spey Bay: links.golf/spey-bay
🔜 What’s Next?
There is a Spey Bay welcome event for all LinksDAO members this summer (July 15–17). Official event details are coming soon.
🧠 Learn More
- Links Golf Club website: links.golf
- Spey Bay website: speybay.co
After submitting a bid to purchase Spey Bay Golf Course in Scotland late last month, LinksDAO let its members know today that its bid had been accepted and the project will move forward with its purchase, as team member Cooper noted in a Discord message earlier today, "WE WON THE BID. We're buying a golf course."
❗ Why It Matters
Amidst all the talk about NFT projects failing to provide utility, LinksDAO has now accomplished exactly what it set out to achieve when it launched over a year ago with today's announcement.
🔎 The Deets
- While the purchase price is not yet known, the golf course's listing noted there had been "offers over £750,000" (about $908,000 USD).
- Before LinksDAO placed an offer, the project had polled its holders on the plan, with more than 88% of voters expressing their support of the bid to purchase Spey Bay.
- LinksDAO also has plans to purchase a US golf course, and the team said last month that a potential purchase of Spey Bay would not affect their ability to move forward in the US.
🎤 Community Feedback
With @LinksDAO winning the bid at Spey Bay (Scotland) - this will go down as one of the most historic days in all of Web3, and a case study on true DAO execution! Hats off to the entire team.@UtilityNFTDoc
Links Play, the LinksDAO benefits network, extended access to more than 450 golf and social clubs in North America for community members, according to an announcement from the project.
The Deets
- The benefit is opt-in for all Links Global tier members and available at an extra fee for Leisure tier members.
- Each club can be visited up to three times per twelve-month period.
- All golf is available on a space-available basis.
- Members may bring up to three accompanied guests.
- Reservations must be made through the Golf Concierge by online request form or via the phone.
- Payment is made via credit or debit card for you and your guests at the time of booking.
❗Why It Matters
LinksDAO has taken the "country club model" of web3 community literally, earning its members exclusive access to golf courses worldwide. The addition of more than 450 courses in North America will ensure that even more opportunity is provided to the community, which does have geogrpahical restrictions based on the network benefit.
🎬 Take Action
To access this benefit and get more information, visit the members-only Clubhouse at https://clubhouse.linksdao.io/.
🧠 Learn More
LinksDAO will bid on a golf course in Scotland following an 88.6% vote in favor of the proposal.
❗ Why It Matters
Whenever LinksDAO does finally buy a golf course, whether it's this one or another, it will represent a successful crossover of Web2 and Web3. 5,000+ golf enthusiasts - rather than specific investors or VCs - came together to be a part of the process of buying a physical property that can be utilized by an entire community.
🔙 Back It Up
It all started when Mike Dudas tweeted, "We are going to buy a golf course," on December 15th, 2021. A couple weeks later, LinksDAO minted on January 1, 2022, and 9,090 membership passes were minted in total: 2,727 Global passes and 6,361 Leisure passes.The Globals would have additional benefits and 4 votes, and the Leisure would have 1 (all benefits can be viewed in the Discord here).
In the past year, the team has been able to offer discounts and create partnerships with brands like Callaway, Bridgestone, Topgolf. But the goal always remained to buy a golf course. 10 golf courses by 2030 in fact. So this potential acquisition would represent the first step of that journey.
The Details
- The estimate for the property price is £750,000 (~$900,000).
- The team has reiterated that because of the relatively low cost, the purchase won't affect ability LinksDAO's ability purchase a US golf course this year. Currently 4 US courses are deep in diligence, with >30 being reviewed.
🔜 What’s Next?
The team expects expect the offer / negotiation / closure process to be done in 45 days or less.
Once that process runs its course, there will be other issues to iterate on. Not just the restoration of the golf course but settling the cost of memberships depending on course economics.
🔥 Hot Take
As a day 1 minter (and admittedly a piss poor golfer), I'm still excited for this move even though I live on the west coast and would likely never travel that far just to embarss myself. After sitting in on a focus group back in December, I was impressed with how thoughtful the team was being with buying its first golf course.
Things move so fast in the NFT space, and no doubt there have been people who think it's been taking too long, or that this will distract the team from buying a course in the US. My thinking is it simply takes time to buy something on the scale of a golf course. And I believe that working on a smaller project first will give them experience to make the second course even better. It's been a project that's not about hype or price action, and just about a community with benefits.
🎤 Community Quotes
Monumental and historic! How many unique voters were there? And what percentage of the DAO is that? Seems like our community is very engaged@ChuckNelsonETH
LinksDao Champions, the PFP project for LinksDAO, is set to reveal at 11:18 a.m. ET on Friday.
The Champions get holders access to chats in the LinksDAO community and "more," according to the project.
The rarest LinksDAO Champions are made of crystal or "were glitched during the storm" and hold elementally powered clubs, the project said.
Gear and outfits will be able to be purchased through the Links Pro Shop.
I have never been more excited for a PFP than I am right now for the LinksDAO Links Champions ⛳️🏆 pic.twitter.com/ApeurJxg9q
— PHILO❓️ (@PHILO_gm) November 9, 2022
LinksDAO, a DAO with the goal of buying a golf course for its members, recently announced the details for its upcoming free PFP collection, Links Champions.
REMINDER: @Linksdao has a free @linkschampions NFT mint next week!
— Mike Dudas (⛳️,🏆) (@mdudas) November 12, 2022
Tremendous community, all fun & games, no stress.
The Public Allowlist mint is Thursday 11/17 @ 11am ET.
Sign up link is here: https://t.co/rRNgJu50Ry
Below is a list of when the minting will be taking place for the involved parties:
- LinksDAO NFT Holders - Nov. 15, at 11:00 a.m. ET
- "Friends & Family" - Nov. 16, at 11:00 a.m. ET
- Public Allowlist - Nov. 17, at 11:00 a.m. ET
- Public Mint (if needed) - Nov. 18, at 11:00 a.m. ET
Users who wish to signup to get on the allowlist can do so via PREMINT by following the steps listed on the website.
LinksDAO announced that there will be a snapshot ahead of its upcoming PFP drop. The snapshot for holders will be taken at 5 p.m. ET today.
Holders at the time of the snapshot will be marked down. These wallets will be eligible to mint the NFTs for free during the first minting window of the upcoming PFP drop.
The mint date has not yet been announced, follow @linksdao and @linkschampions to stay up to date on all things Links Champion NFTs.
LinkDAO had its weekly Community Call in Discord on Tuesday evening. The team announced updates to its upcoming PFP mint.
The full story of the lore behind the PFP collection will be released on Monday for Halloween. The team leaked some PFP artwork in the members-only section of the Discord server, and more art reveals will be released in the coming days.
The mint date is not yet announced, but a snapshot of current holders will be taken prior to the mint. Global and Leisure holders will be able to mint multiple "champions" from the new collection. Global holders will be able to mint more than Leisure holders, and all holders will be able to mint for free plus gas.
There will be a "Friends and Family" allowlist. Holders will have a password they can provide their friends and family for a private Premint page to mint the collection. The public mint will be available in crypto as well as fiat.
LinksDAO, an NFT project attempting to build "the world's greatest golf and leisure club," teased exciting news in its upcoming community call tomorrow, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. ET.
"Tomorrow's community call will be a big one," the tweet reads. "Tune in at 8 p.m. ET, Oct. 25."
Minutes after this week, the team fired a second teaser apparently related to the purchase or construction of a new golf course.
"Our Head of Strategy, Adam Besvinick, has had multiple calls with top 10 golf course architects and designers over the last few weeks, about a specific course," the team teased, before finishing with, "We're getting close, folks."
LinksDAO is committed to buying a golf course, improving golf inclusivity and access, and rewarding holders with member benefits and perks.
"LinksDAO NFTs will allow for community access, governance, a wide variety of perks, and games in the near term," the OpenSea project description reads. "They will be the key to unlocking membership at LinksDAO's first golf and leisure club."
The current floor price for a LinksDAO Leisure Membership pass is 0.394 ETH.
