Florida “The Sunshine State” needs little introduction. The famous peninsula panhandle is where many Americans escape for the winter and it’s also the State that is most commonly visited by foreign golfers in search of tropical conditions and lush fairways.
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Situated on the Atlantic side of Florida’s coastline, Seminole Golf Club is considered by critics to be one of the finest examples of golf course routing.
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Much has been written about the Stadium course at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass and we all know about the signature hole...
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Calusa Pines Golf Club is an absolute blast and that’s official. $1m of dynamite was used to blast through tons of rock to create rare Floridian elevation changes...
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Remarkably, it’s said that the short par four 9th on the Red course is actually Tom Doak’s favourite golf hole on either the Red or the Blue course at the Streamsong Resort.
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The signature hole on the Blue may well be the par three 7th, with its wonderfully contoured green nestled between a lake to the front and huge sand dunes to the rear. Tom Doak remarked: "My younger associates and I discussed the idea of putting in a zip line to get across the pond..."
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The new Coore & Crenshaw design, known now as McArthur Golf Club Back Yard, is an enclave of private golf heaven. The little milk bottle logo is a good indication of a well-connected, deep-pocketed, and lucky golfer.
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Seth Raynor moved very little earth at Mountain Lake. The holes sit on rolling terrain not typically associated with Florida.
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The famous dairy family who started dairy farming in Florida in the late 1920s own McArthur Golf Club. Hence the famous milk bottle logo - one of the finest in golf.
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With holes routed across this unusually hilly site between acres of pine, oak and palmetto, it’s no surprise that the Hills golf course at Jupiter Hills Club is so well regarded and so fiercely protected by its membership.
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The wildlife sanctuary protects imperilled species and has a Pete Dye-designed golf course. In Florida but bordering Georgia, it is a special place with pure motives that just happens to have a cracking golf course.
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A community golf course for all ages, people, backgrounds, abilities and circumstances. The 'golf park' is a municipal Old Barnwell in West Palm Beach.
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The Concession Golf Club is set in a 1,200-acre private community on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The club was inspired by the moment that has been referred to as the “greatest single sporting gesture ever”.
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Belleair has two Donald Ross-designed golf courses, with golf being played here as early as 1897. The recent restoration to the 1924 design has vaunted the West Course firmly inside the Florida Top 100.
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The West course at John's Island Club is a Tom Fazio design that's routed across delightful terrain with tall sand ridges which rise up some fifty feet or so from the property.
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Streamsong's Black course is set separately to the south of the Red and Blue courses, and it’s also bigger in scale, with a massive eleven acres devoted to its putting surfaces and their tightly mown surrounds.
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Indian Creek Country Club is at the heart of Indian Creek Island and is located between Bal Harbor and Miami Beach. Here in splendid isolation lies one of America’s most exclusive communities...
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Designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1987, the Quarry layout at Black Diamond Ranch Club is not a typical Florida golf course because it has so many changes in elevation.
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Pine Tree Golf Club is prestigious, traditional and intensely private. Also, the course represents a precise challenge and is considered to be one of Dick Wilson’s finest designs.
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Greg Norman originally founded the Medalist Golf Club in January 1995 and the course, located at Hobe Sound, was the first design collaboration between The Shark and Pete Dye.
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Routed across more than 300 acres of sandy ground, Old Memorial Golf Club – named after a nearby road – plays in a links-like style with firm surfaces and teasing, fickle coastal winds.
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Panther National, a Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas collaboration, west of West Plam Beach in Florida. The 18-hole golf course sits alongside all the trappings the international jet set has come to know, love and expect at home.
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There are 27 Jim Fazio-designed holes at Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach and Trump certainly moved earth to create the Championship course.
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There's nothing mediocre about Loblolly Golf Club, which opened in 1988. It’s one of Pete and P.B. Dye’s unsung layouts that simply bristles with style. Formerly known as Loblolly Pines, this is Floridian seaside golf from the top drawer.
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The first of three 18 golf courses to open at Apogee Club in Florida. With Gil Hanse, Tom Fazio II, and Kyle Philips all constructing golf courses, the ultra elite club from Sebonack founder and Miami Dolphins owner was advised on by Rory McIlroy and Ernie Els.
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Lake Nona Golf & Country Club starts off under a canopy of tall trees on the front nine, becoming more open on the inward half as the final five holes play around natural inland lakes.
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The Bear’s Club was inaugurated in 1999 by Jack and Barbara Nicklaus and is the result of Jack’s dream to create a world-class golf course in his own South Florida backyard.
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Florida Golf, Reimagined. That's the claim and it appears to do what it says on the tin. There are still residential opportunities but water-lined developments which also feature golf is not what is on offer. Four courses along with a putting course and driving range with all the bells and whistles round out the offer.
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Palmer and his partner Ed Seay have altered much of Dick Wilson’s original design, so today’s Bay Hill Club is very much the spirit of the King.
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The overall design at Naples National Golf Club is based on the tradition of golf’s “golden age” so do not expect to find any gimmicks here...
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Old Marsh Golf Club lies at the centre of a 450-acre private residential development where the fairways and Mother Nature blend together in complete harmony with the wetland surroundings.
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You’ll really need to hang on to Frigyes Karinthy’s “six degrees of separation” theory in order to get a game at the Floridian National Golf Club, for this was Huizenga’s retreat.
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Opening for play in 1986, the course at Isleworth Golf & Country Club is the centrepiece for one of the nation’s premier residential communities and home to a plethora of famous golfing names.
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Situated within a beautifully forested site that backs onto the St Johns River, the course at Timuquana Country Club is a 1923 Donald Ross layout that has been extensively altered over the last nine decades...
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American architect E. Lawrence Packard designed all four layouts at the Innisbrook Resort and the Copperhead golf course is his most famous and arguably best achievement.
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Trump National Doral's Blue Monster, home of the World Golf Championships, has hosted prestigious PGA TOUR events for the last 45 years.
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Coral Ridge Country Club is located on the east side of the Florida panhandle. Near the Fort Lauderdale waterfront, it is the premier private golf county club in the area.
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The Hawk’s Nest course is one of two 18-hole courses operated by the Moorings Yacht & Country Club near Vero Beach, where unusually for Florida there’s quite a bit of movement in the landscape...
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Seeded throughout with St Augustine grass, the course at the Dye Preserve Golf Club was fashioned by its esteemed designer for golfers who cherish the game’s age-old traditions.
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Fringed by southern pines and palm trees, the emerald green fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed course at Coral Creek Club weave through a beautiful 211-acre residential estate.
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Situated a couple of miles from Bonyton Beach, the course at the Country Club of Florida was originally built by members of Augusta National who enlisted Robert Bruce Harris to design an expansive layout...
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Designed by Nick Price and Tom Fazio II, Quail Valley Golf Club has hosted USGA qualifiers, Florida State Golf Association events, and the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational (hosted by McNeese State University).
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The course at RedStick Golf Club, named after the RedStick tribe who were members of the Creek Nation and trading partners of the Seminoles, opened for play in 2000 and it’s laid out on a property where an early 20th century saw-mill once operated.
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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”.
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A late 1980s Tom Fazio creation, the course at the Emerald Dunes Club in West Palm Beach was fully renovated by the same architect some twenty years after it was first unveiled.
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What you see is what you get. There are no tricks at Southern Dunes Golf & Country club, nothing is hidden, and everything is fairly laid out in front of you.
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Constructed in 1979 by Joe Lee, the course at High Ridge Country Club was first renovated by Kipp Schulties in 2001 and then redesigned by Schulties in 2010...
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Camp Creek Golf Club opened its five tees for play in 2001 and has already received more accolades than an Oscar winner.
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Few athletes in history have had a cultural impact on the same level as Tiger Woods. One of them is Michael Jordan, hailed by many as the greatest basketball player of all time. The legend also has a notorious taste for golf, which prompted the construction of his own golf haven, The Grove XXIII.
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Formerly the private Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa, the also private Trump National Jupiter Golf Club features a 7,500-yard Nicklaus signature course which opened in 2002 in the backyard of Jack’s very own (and also private) Bear’s Club.
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The course at the men-only Gator Creek Golf Club near Sarasota is a 1972 Joe Lee creation that was later updated by Mark McCumber and Ron Garl.
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With six holes that play close to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ocean course at Hammock Beach has developed a likeable reputation.
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The Conservatory golf course is certainly not elementary and Tom Watson’s Hammock Beach 7,746-yard inland monster may well have played host to the inaugural 2007 Ginn Tournament...
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According to Nicklaus Design, "The Loxahatchee Club was created out of the love of the game with flavourings of the olde Scottish game mingled with the finest characteristics of modern American golf".
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Founded in 1911, the Country Club of Orlando is one of the oldest country clubs in Florida and their old Donald Ross-designed course has undergone a number of renovations down the years... But was Donald Ross really the architect?
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Redesigned in recent years by Gene Bates, the Old course at the Broken Sound Club has hosted the Allianz Championship on the PGA Champions Tour since 2007.
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Founded in 1908, Capital City Country Club quickly had an elementary golf course in operation. A 9-hole track was in use by the end of the 1920s before AW Tillighast then expanded the course to 18 holes.
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Considered one of the premier golf and country club communities in all of Central Florida, Bella Collina is a guard-gated golf community of 800 luxury homes in Montverde Florida, with a Steve Smyers/Nick Faldo 18-hole layout as its golfing centrepiece.
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One of two 18-hole courses laid out by George Fazio at Jupiter Hills Club in the late 1960s, the Village layout is somewhat overshadowed by its sibling, the Hills course, which is a real pity.
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The 7,209-yard Shark’s Tooth is part of an 800-acre residential community and the routing makes excellent use of delightful rolling ground, which is ideal for golf but unusual for Florida...
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Redesigned and reopened for public play in 2006, the 18-hole layout at North Palm Beach Country Club is one of only a few municipal Nicklaus Signature courses that golfers can play in all of the USA.
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Architect Ron Garl designed almost half the card as tribute holes from famous courses around the world when he set out the layout at Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club.
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An exclusive private members club on the Gulf Coast in Southwest Florida which celebrated its centennial in 2024. A Donald Ross design that was updated by Tony Jacklin in 2018.
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The greens at Sara Bay Country Club are said to most closely resemble those at another great Donald Ross design, Pinehurst No. 2.
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Totally overshadowed by the iconic Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass, the Dye’s Valley layout opened for play in 1987, a decade after its more famous sibling was first unveiled.
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The star attraction on the PGA National menu is the Champion course, which was the battleground for the 1983 Ryder Cup – one of the closest contests in Ryder Cup history.
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The 18-hole El Campeón course at the 36-hole Mission Inn Resort & Club is one of sixty-two semi-private Golden Age courses which are currently included in the Florida Historic Golf Trail.
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Described by the club as “a golf club, pure and simple”, the course at Old Collier is set alongside the Cocohatchee River and Tom Fazio laid it out across 270 acres of park-like ground in 2001.
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Rees Jones laid out the course at the Waldorf Astoria Golf Club in 2009, expertly routing the tree-lined fairways around a large wetland estate.
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Formerly known as the South Course at PGA Village, this 18-hole layout was renamed in honour of Rodman Wanamaker, the man who inaugurated the U.S. PGA Championship in 1916.
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Sawgrass Country Club is where the Players Championship was held for five years from 1977, at a time when the TPC was still an undeveloped swamp a couple of miles to the south of the property.
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The most exclusive of the four 18-hole tracks at the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort, the Burnt Pine layout is a Rees Jones design that offers stunning views of Choctawhatchee Bay on the back nine.
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Jack Nicklaus' Lost Tree Club is perhaps best known as the golf course that is next door to Seminole. A traditional, Florida golf and residential estate, the wide corridors and limited housing plots help it rise above many others.
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Panther Lake was the first golf course to open at Orange County National (1997) and it was the result of collaboration between Phil Ritson, Isao Aoki and the late David Harman...
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The Gold course is now the site of the annual QBE Shootout but it’s the second and oldest course at Tiburón Golf Club, the Black, that generally receives the accolades.
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Designed by Robert von Hagge and Bruce Devlin in the late 1960s, the Golden Palm course at Trump National Doral has recently undergone a well-received renovation by Gil Hanse.
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Crafted by Jack Nicklaus, the 18-hole New course at the Grand Cypress Resort brought the number of holes in play at this facility to 45 when it opened for play in the late 1980s.
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The Ranch course at Black Diamond Ranch debuted in 1997 and architect Tom Fazio reckons holes 16 to 18 on the Ranch are the three best finishing holes he’s ever designed.
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The Pete and Alice Dye-designed championship layout at the historic old Gasparilla Inn & Club is very much an island course on its own private island.
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Dick Wilson originally laid out the course for the Hole-In-The-Wall Golf Club in 1957 and it opened in 1958. According to folklore Gene Sarazen said: “If I only had one golf course to play, it would be Hole-in-the-Wall.”
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Debuting in 2007, the Jack Nicklaus Signature course at Old Corkscrew Golf Club weaves through a naturally wooded property that, fortunately, remains untouched by real estate.
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The 1923 Donald Ross-designed course at the Gulf Stream Golf Club is located on the Atlantic coast to the north of Delray Beach. In a Seminole style, the property has a central ridge that Ross once more utilised to good effect.
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The second or East course at the now-famous Belleair Country Club. The West Course is where you will want to play but after its amazing restoration, one wonders how long the East will trail behind.
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Not only did Arnold Palmer design the course at Adios Golf Club back in the early 1980s, he was also one of sixteen founder members that established the golf club.
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The South Course at Quail Ridge Country Club was redesigned by Bobby Weed in 2019. Originally a Joe Lee design from 1974, Bobby Weed, a Pete Dye associate, also built The Grove XXIII - the Florida course owned by Michael Jordan.
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The Raven Golf Club at Sandestin was two-time host to the Boeing Championship, a PGA Champions Tour event. Bobby Wadkins was victorious in 2006 and Loren Roberts prevailed in 2007.
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The course at Banyan Cay was overhauled by Nicklaus Design in 2024, and is now a new private club, Dutchman's Pipe.
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Set on Florida’s Atlantic coast the Hammock Dunes Club is a residential community with two golf courses at its heart. We think the best is the newer, inland Rees Jones-designed Creek...
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The Bay Island course was last to open in 1994 and it’s considered to be the toughest of the Arthur Hills trio here at Bonita Bay.
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Formerly known as the Independence course, the Watson layout at the 54-hole Reunion Resort debuted in 2004 and despite an open feel it’s a visually exciting golf course with bold bunkering.
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The Red Tiger course was unveiled alongside the Blue Monster at Trump National Doral in 1962. Set out within a tight, 120-acre property, the original Dick Wilson layout has recently been renovated by the Gil Hanse design team.
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The Breakers oceanfront hotel at Palm Beach is one of America’s legendary destinations and its Rees Jones golf course was awarded “Renovation of the Year 2005”...
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Andrew Green continues his hot streak with The Pine Course at Grey Oaks entering the Top 100 In State Rankings in its first attempt. Of the three on offer, it'll be the Pine Course you'll want to attempt to play.
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The Copperhead course is arguably E. Lawrence Packard's best achievement but his Island course – host to numerous U.S. Open qualifiers and NCAA Championships – is not far behind in the rankings.
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Along with the 18-hole Miller layout, the Soffer course forms a fantastic 36-hole challenge at the Turnberry Isle Miami resort, where many of the holes are routed around substantial water hazards.
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Originally designed by Herbert Strong back in 1928, the Ocean course at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club has subsequently been upgraded by both Robert Trent Jones Snr and Bobby Weed.
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The Members Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota is an exclusive course available only to members of The Ritz-Carlton Members Club and guests of the resort.
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The golf course at Juliet Falls is a 7,239-yard John Sanford design and it’s the architect’s finest creation to date.
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Originally opened in 1973 as Hamlet Country Club, the course at Seagate Country Club is located just a few miles west of the Atlantic strand of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County. The club changed hands in 2012, leading to a name change and a major renovation the following year by architect Gene Bates and PGA Touring Professional Jeff Sluman, a club member.
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The Amelia River Club was founded in 2000 and Elevated in 2022. In the fall of 2022, the club opened its state of the art Performance Center and new Pro Shop. The Amelia River club is quickly becoming the premier club on Amelia Island and offers something for all golfers!
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Sandglass Golf Club stands as Tom Doak's most ambitious Florida project, transforming 380 acres of former agricultural land alongside the Okeechobee Waterway into an 18-hole private golf course that opened in 2024. The course represents Doak's interpretation of what the National Golf Links of America was to C.B. Macdonald, incorporating design elements from legendary holes at St. Andrews, Muirfield, North Berwick and Pine Valley. Located 10.5km (6.5 miles) west of Interstate 95 on SW Kanner Highway in Martin County, the course occupies a strategic position along the St. Lucie Canal waterway. The site began as a "clean slate" for golf, requiring significant earthmoving to create the undulating terrain that gives the course its "Rolling Sands" moniker.
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Located 5 miles inland from the Atlantic coast, next to the PGA National Members Club, the 18-hole layout at Old Palm Golf Club is a Raymond Floyd-designed course that first opened to its private members in 2004. The neighbourhood is littered with private gated golf communities but Old Palm is one of the premier establishments in this high-end area.
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The South Course at Apogee Club in Florida is designed by Tom Fazio II and Mike Davis. With a Hanse/ Wagner layout and Kyle Phillips design on the same property, it'll be interesting to see how they differentiate and set themselves apart.
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Opened for golf in 1996, Pablo Creek Club is fashioned around a series of water hazards where you’ll need to keep a watchful eye on the alligators if your long game is wayward.
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The Ryder course at the PGA Village – formerly called the North golf course – is named in honour of Samuel Ryder, the English entrepreneur and founder of the “official” Ryder Cup...
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The Grand Cypress Resort sits next door to Walt Disney World in a very central location for golfers on vacation to Orlando. Sadly the North, South and East courses closed in November 2019 to make way for resort expansion.
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Mayacoo Lakes Country Club was one of the earliest collaborations of Jack Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead.
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One of the many Floridian creations of architect Arthur Hills, the course at Eagle Trace Golf Club (formerly TPC at Eagle Trace) opened for play within a private club in 1983.
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Extending to over 1,300 acres, the beautifully landscaped BallenIsles housing complex is laid out around the three top drawer golf courses named North, South and East.
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The toughest hole and longest par four on the Palm course is undoubtedly the 18th where the final third of the hole is an island.
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The famous dairy family who started farming in Florida in the late 1920s with a handful of Jersey cows own McArthur Golf Club.
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Kelly Plantation Golf Club is billed as “The Crown Jewel of the Emerald Coast” and for once the course matches the hype.
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Pine Barrens is the World Woods golf course that receives most of the accolades but do not overlook Rolling Oaks. Both are from Fazio’s top drawer but both courses came from very different cabinets.
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The course at Talis Park Golf Club, formerly known as Tuscany Reserve, is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two bold designers, Pete Dye and Greg Norman.
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The Crooked Cat golf course at Orange County National opened in 1999 and it can be stretched out beyond 7,200 yards from the tips. It’s hardly a pussycat.
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With 18-hole layouts from Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, the Reunion Resort has 54 holes of golf designed by three of the greatest golfers to ever grace the fairways in the Sunshine State of Florida. The Watson layout (originally known as “Independence”) and Palmer course (previously named “Legacy”) debuted in 2004, followed a few year later by the longer, more difficult “Tradition,” which has also now been renamed after its designer, Jack Nicklaus.
