The Ocala Golf Course at Adena Club lies seven miles north of Ocala, the town known to many as “the horse capital of the world”.

The Ocala Golf Course at Adena Club lies seven miles north of Ocala, the town known to many as “the horse capital of the world”.

Opened in the summer of 2015, the course at Adena Golf & Country Club was built by Frank Stronach, the Canadian businessman, politician and thoroughbred horse breeder who owns a successful stud farm in nearby Ocala, the “horse capital of the world”. He also operates a number of racetracks in the United States so his primary sporting leanings are clearly towards the Sport of Kings.
That’s not to say his investment at Adena has been half-hearted as he’s reported to have pumped more than $50 million into this 420-acre residential golf development, where several holes are routed around three old flooded limerock mining quarries and a number of the fairways undergo substantial changes in elevation from tee to green.
There’s lots of interesting things going on here, much of it unconventional: like the ultra-narrow, tree-lined fairway on the 3rd hole, the rock wall running along the left of the 7th hole or the split level fairway and two-tiered green on the 9th. On the back nine, there’s a monster par five hole at the 14th which measures all of 747 yards from the back tees, followed by a scary downhill par three that plays to a precarious peninsula green.
In July 2018, just three years after opening, Adena Golf & Country Club closed abruptly. Recently, it reopened as Adena Club with the Ocala Golf Course.
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