Professional hockey player Jeremy Roenick, who plays for the San Jose Sharks, has purchased the 150-acre property on West Elm Street and plans to keep it as an 18-hole public golf course.

Norwood Cooperative Bank took over ownership of the property at a public auction held in January, and rumors of who would buy the site — and what would happen to it — have been circulating since then. Russell and Marian Grabau had owned the property for many years but, unable to pay the mortgage, released ownership through the public auction.

The sale to Roenick was officially closed last Friday, Norwood Bank senior vice president John Galvani said.

Roenick, who lives in California but grew up in Marshfield, plans to be actively involved with the property and “will be around quite a bit” once the hockey season ends, his agent Neil Abbott said Monday.

“Jeremy played there in high school, and he learned to play golf there. He has a long history with the golf course,” Abbott said. “When he became aware of the availability of the golf course through the bank … this fit into his long-term business plans for his post-NHL career.”

Though Roenick, 39, has not announced any plans to retire, Abbott said Roenick understands he is nearing the end of his hockey career and that golf is a big part of his life and his future.

“He’s a very active golfer, a very strong golfer,” said Abbott, who played with Roenick 20 years ago on the Pembroke course. “We know the course and we know the area very well. It just fits nicely with what he’d like to do.”

Plans are for the course to open on April 1, and crews have been busy making renovations to the clubhouse, pro-shop and banquet facility. Among the team of professionals hired to get Pembroke Country Club up and running again is Nora Berard, former director of operations at South Shore Country Club; head PGA golf professional Scott Trethewey, who comes to Pembroke from the Milton Hoosic Club in Milton; and superintendent Joe Fouree, from California.

“It’s just such an extraordinarily exciting project,” Berard said of the country club renovations. “I’ve worked in the golf industry virtually my whole life, and I’m so happy to be here and to feel the energy from everybody — the ownership, the staff … and especially the people that have been members here in the past, because they persevered through a lot.”

Since the sale was made official last week, “it’s been absolutely crazy,” Berard said. “We have three buildings on the property, and they are all being totally rehabilitated. There’s new lighting, new carpeting going in all of them, all of them are being reshingled, new paint, new wall treatments. … The bride’s room has been expanded and totally rehabilitated.”

Work on the golf course will start now — with new sand in the bunkers, for instance — and continue in the future as the superintendent works to return the course to its original design, Berard said.

The banquet facility side of the business is being outsourced to Family Crest Catering of Hanover, Berard said, and the club will be opened up once again to weddings and other events. The company will be doing its own hiring in the coming weeks.

Hiring has already begun for the golf side, Berard said.

“We do have applications available for people that want to work in the golf operations. … We’ll be hiring pro shop staff; we’ll be hiring rangers, starters, people to work in the driving range and work golf carts,” she said.

The club is open to new members and welcomes old members back, Berard said.

“Our membership is totally open, and it is such an incredibly good value. People can join for $2,500 — that’s unlimited golf for the entire season, plus it allows them the use of a golf cart for the season,” she said. “And what the members will also have this year, which I think was lacking in the past, is that Scott will come up with a whole list of tournaments and engage the membership in playing.”

The Pembroke High School golf team also will be coming back to practice at the club this fall, Berard said.

Rates are set for weekend and weekday rounds, lessons and “make your own” clinics and are available by calling the pro shop. For rates, information about jobs, membership or anything else related to the club, call the pro shop at 781-829-2273 — or just stop by.

The club also has a new Web site, pembrokegolf.com.

“We encourage people to come down and see what’s going on,” Berard said.

Already, curious people have been checking in.

“There’s a lot of good work going on around here,” one visitor called out Monday to the club’s new head pro as he wandered around the property.

Trethewey nodded. “It’s coming. Every day you’ll notice something different,” he said.

Electrician Chris Burke, installing all new lighting in the clubhouse on Monday, said he used to play golf with a group of buddies from Rockland every Thursday.

“We heard it was sold, and we were disappointed because we thought developers were going to buy it. Then we found out that these guys were going to do it over,” Burke said. “We’re very excited for it to open. We can’t wait. April 1 can’t come quick enough.”

The fact that a hockey pro is the new owner makes the news even better, Burke said.

“It’s excellent. Jeremy Roenick’s a local hero,” he said.

Roenick’s enthusiasm for the project is evident, Berard said, and shared by the team he hired to get the club back on its feet.

“This is a man who loves the game of golf,” she said. “What I find most encouraging is that Jeremy already loves this property; he already loves it, and he sees it certainly as a business investment, but he also has a passion for it.”

The enthusiasm and energy up on West Elm Street was perhaps best expressed by a former Pembroke Country Club member, who stopped by to see the work recently, Berard said.

“He said, ‘this is a dream come true.’ And I think that sums it up. It really is. It’s a dream come true,” she said.