A Nebraska golf course defunct for 20 years is being brought back to life.
Construction has begun on Coffeetree Country Club — a new private golf facility in Elkhorn, Nebraska, on the western edge of the Omaha metro area. The new track will replace Skyline Woods Country Club, which opened in the late 20th century but closed in 2005 due to a series of financial troubles.
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Seven-time PGA Tour winner and Golf Channel commentator Peter Jacobsen has been tabbed to design the new Coffeetree layout. He plans to build five brand new holes while keeping the remaining 13 similar to the original Skyline Woods design, according to a report from KMTV 3NewsNow in Omaha.
This will be the first venture into the upper Midwest for Jacobsen, whose previous design projects include the Member Course at the Golf Club of Houston and Cypress Ridge Golf Course in Arroyo Grande, California, among others.
Peter Jacobsen reacts during the Hyundai Tournament of Champions Pro-Am at the Plantation Course at Kapalua Golf Club on January 6, 2016 in Lahaina, Hawaii.
The new Coffeetree development seems to be a welcome sight for residents of the area, as the former Skyline Woods Country Club has essentially been rotting away for the better part of two decades and was even at the center of a Nebraska Supreme Court case when a nearby homeowners association got into a legal dispute with one of the course’s previous owners.
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Dennis Circo and his father bought the course in the 1960s and sold it to American Golf Corporation in 1990, according to court documents. It had four different owners between 1990 and 2005 before eventually filing for bankruptcy and closing permanently. Circo repurchased the property a few years ago and revealed a vision for redevelopment in 2023, but those plans fell through. According to KMTV, developer Brett Clure bought the property in November 2025, and construction has already begun, which appears to have neighbors quite excited.
“You hate to see something in a nicer part of town run down, if you will, and so it’d be nice to see it come back to its former glory,” Alex Beckwith, who grew up playing Skyline Woods, told KMTV.
“The neighbors that I’ve talked to really feel strongly that Brett has got the right idea. . . we just couldn’t be more thrilled,” said Robyn Vance, a nearby resident.
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Plans for the new Coffeetree Country Club include an 18-hole championship golf course along with a 27,000 square-foot clubhouse that will feature a restaurant, a resort-style pool, golf simulators, tennis courts and a pickleball facility. Construction and redevelopment of the golf course will come first, with the other amenities to follow.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Construction begins on new private golf club in Omaha, Nebraska
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