Coral Creek

Fringed by southern pines and palm trees, the emerald green fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed layout at Coral Creek Club weave through a beautiful 211-acre estate, which is set at the highest point in Charlotte County with no homes surrounding the course. Situated close to the island of Boca Grande on the Gulf of Mexico, the property lies next to the enormous Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park.

First opened for play in 2000, Coral Creek's course offers a solid test of golf, even allowing for the largely generous width of the fairways, which allow a degree or two of latitude off the tee when the ocean breezes blow, as they frequently do.

The toughest hole on the scorecard is also the longest hole. The 630-yard par five 5th begins with a tee shot to one of the narrowest fairways, flanked on the right by wetlands and bunkers left. This hole favors the bigger hitter who can drive past the wetland to take advantage of a wider fairway beyond. The second shot must avoid a lake running up the right side, leaving an approach to a large false-fronted and strongly contoured green.

All except one of the back nine holes involve water as a hazard and the round climaxes in a great three-hole finish where an offset drive across a lake is required at the 16th, wetlands need to be carried at the 212-yard 17th and the longest par four on the card has to be negotiated at the 471-yard 18th.

A complete renovation by Fazio Design commenced in the summer of 2020 involving new tees, new bunkers (converted to Capillary Concrete) and new TifEagle greens. The revised Coral Creek layout reopened in Ocober 2020.