Norman’s estate sold for mind-boggling sum

Retired professional golfer Greg Norman and his wife, Kiki, have found a buyer for their massive AU$77 million South Florida compound only two weeks after it was listed for sale.

Known as the Great White Shark of professional golf, Norman relisted the Jupiter Island Beach abode after 14 years of reconstruction.

The estate reportedly sold to the family of billionaire Leslie Wexner — the founder and former chief executive of L Brands — according to the Real Deal. But the offer remains contingent.

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The Wexners made the purchase on February 9th, the listing shows.

Greg Norman’s Jupiter Island home has been sold. Picture: Coldwell Banker RealtySource:Supplied

The Normans put their massive 32,000-square-foot property on sale on January 27th. The Florida estate was first listed back in 2007 for $83.8 million before it was rebuilt.

The properties sit on an 8.31-acre lot and are made up of eight houses in total — the main house, a coach house, a pool house, a tennis house, a boat house, a carriage house and a beach house — plus a 5000-square-foot basement.

“My wife and I feel it is time to move on after 30 years here,” Norman told the Miami Herald.

“COVID-19 and the whole pandemic experience, with social distancing and being isolated from our families — most of whom live overseas — this past year has made us realise how short life truly is and has caused us to re-evaluate how and where we want to spend the rest of our lives.”

A pool with a view. Picture: Coldwell Banker RealtySource:Supplied

There are eight separate houses on the property.Source:Supplied

Not the worst view, I suppose.Source:Supplied

The entertainment room isn’t too shabby either.Source:Supplied

The 2001 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee with the highest percentage of votes (80 per cent) of any linkster to date, Norman spent 331 weeks as the world’s No. 1 officially ranked golfer. He has won 89 professional tournaments in total, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors, the Open Championships in 1986 and 1993.

Norman also made headlines in November when he detailed the severe COVID-19 symptoms that “kicked the c**p” out of him, causing him to return to a hospital after initially thinking he had beat the worst of the disease.

“I am fit and strong and have a high tolerance for pain, but this is like nothing I have ever experienced before,” Norman wrote on Instagram at the time.

This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was reproduced with permission

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