Shell Landing

A new millennium offering from Davis Love III, the course at Shell Landing Golf Club weaves in and out of sizeable tracts of Biloxi marsh and wetland areas. Unlike many golf facilities in the region which are backed by casinos, Shell Landing operates on its own merits, with wide fairways routed through a forest of trees and some holes playing along salt marshes and scenic inlets.

Notable holes on the outward nine include the 555-yard 3rd (played to a fairway that’s guarded by a couple of bunkers on the right and a long sand hazard down the left) and the 412-yard 6th (regarded as the signature hole), where the tee shot has to carry a marshland area then the approach needs to fly a pond protecting the front of the putting surface.

On the inward half, water runs along the left of the fairway before cutting in front of the green on the 414-yard 14th; there’s three bunkers at the back of the 193-yard 17th to catch over hit tee shots; and the home green on the 439-yard 18th sits behind a big bunker to the front left side, bringing a round here to a stylish end.