Featured Orlando Area Golf Courses
Timacuan Golf & Country Club offers a unique layout that is consistently ranked as one of the best in Florida. The front nine holes are situated on a rolling landscape, which is rare among golf courses in Florida. The back nine, though equally challenging, is completely different from the former half.
Conveniently located just minutes away from the Universal Orlando Resort, the golf course at the Metrowest Golf Club is situated on a lush terrain of spring-fed lakes and native trees.
The natural beauty of the Florida woodlands makes Disney's Palm Golf Course one of America's premier resort destinations. One of Disney's toughest golf courses, the Joe Lee design features sparkling lakes and tropical sand in a scenic golf landscape populated with strategically placed palms.
Jack Nicklaus designed the four 18-hole courses at Grand Cypress Resort. Three different nines are combined to create three of the courses. Low-handicappers will enjoy the South/East course for its unique challenges but its player-friendly qualities make it appealing to beginners as well.
Disney's Osprey Ridge Golf Course, designed by Tom Fazio, has been recognized as one of the top courses in Florida by Golf Digest, receiving 4½ stars out of 5.
Orlando's Championsgate golf facility possesses two regulation 18-hole courses, the National Course and the International Course. The golf courses share very few similarities regarding the layout but they both offer a challenging game.
Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer and course designer, is closely connected to the Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Palmer first played the golf course in 1965 and then bought the facility in 1976.
The North/South course is the original layout of Grand Cypress Resort's four Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses. Built in 1984, the North and South nines were completely renovated in 2008, adding new challenges including terraced fairways and yawning bunkers that surround platform greens.
Built in 1917, El Campeon at Mission Inn Resort & Club stands as one of the South’s oldest courses. The sloping hills of the central highlands provide golf the course with more than 85 feet in elevation changes, which were deftly utilized in the rolling fairways and undulating greens.
The 18 hole Rees Jones-designed championship golf course follows the terrain's existing contours and blends respectfully with nature offering a challenging yet tranquil game.
Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course at Walt Disney World® Resort is a classic country club course with a distinctive atmosphere. In the words of architect Joe Lee, it is "exciting, challenging, yet fun to play."
Disney's Magnolia Course is the longest of all the Disney golf courses. Lower-handicap golfers commonly favor it over the three other 18-hole courses at Disney for its championship pedigree. It's been a mainstay on the PGA Tour since it opened.
With the addition of the New Course, Grand Cypress Resort offers a total of 45 championship holes designed by Jack Nicklaus. The New Course, an impressive homage to the famous St. Andrews course,features a challenging links design with more than 150 bunkers.
The National Course at Championsgate is one of two courses at the facility, the other being the International Course. Championsgate is conveniently located only 10 minutes from the Disney World Resorts and 15 from the Universal Hotel Resorts.
Las Colinas, which translates as "The Hills," is the newer of two 18-hole championship courses at Mission Inn Resort & Club. It offers a different challenge than the resort's original layout, El Campeon. Las Colinas has a unique inland links design with wide-open fairways and a gently rolling landscape.
Grand Cypress Resort features an 18-hole links course and three challenging nines that are played in three different 18-hole combinations. The East/North course is a test of accuracy rather than strength or distance with platform greens surrounded by generous bunkering and mounding.
With its convenient location near the Walt Disney World Resort, International Airport, and the Orlando Convention Center, Falcon's Fire Golf Club is one Florida's most popular golf destinations. Rees Jones designed this golf course, which stretches across 7,000 yards from the back tees.
Orange Lake Resort offers four golf courses, including the 18-hole Reserve Course. The Reserve Course winds through a diverse landscape of water, sands, and rolling hills. The golf course is surrounded by preserved wetlands, offering golfers scenic views of native plants and wildlife.
The course at the Celebration Golf Club is the last golf course Robert Trent Jones Sr. and his son designed together. It is a challenging course that combines some of the best elements of the designers' most notable courses.
Dubsdread Golf Course is a popular choice for beginning and intermediate golfers. Designed in 1923, it is the oldest public course in the Orlando area. The course is tight with a short, traditional layout that features "postage stamp" style greens that are heavily bunkered.
Located between the major attractions of Orlando and the beaches of Melbourne, Harmony Golf Preserve is unique. Not only is it Central Florida's only Johnny Miller signature course, it's also designated as a "preserve", incorporating existing wetlands and wildlife.
The ancient creek that the course at Shingle Creek Golf Club takes its name from is part of the natural headwaters of the Florida Everglades. The creek winds through the golf course, adding beauty and an interesting element of challenge.
Designed by Mike Dasher, Providence Golf Club in Davenport has been winning rave reviews since it opened in 2008. That year, Golf Week included Providence in its list of the top 50 new golf courses in America. "The variety of style and tree canopy throughout the course creates an ever-changing pallet that will provide for memorable holes as well as strategic golf," Dasher wrote.
Windermere Country Club boasts a Ward Northrup-designed, 18-hole golf course that is aimed at fun and playability, regardless of your handicap. Stretching to 6,558 yards from the back tees, the undulating fairways and challenging greens offer even the most experienced player a solid test.
The Legends is one of four golf courses at Orange Lake Resort. The golf course has a layout that is similar to traditional Scottish courses. This wide open golf course features several challenges that require a well-equipped bag of clubs.
Renowned golf course architect Steve Smyers has designed one of Central Florida's most dynamic new golf courses. In partnership with six-time major champion Nick Faldo, Smyers created each hole of Grande Pines Golf Club to be a strategic challenge that will bring out the best in each player's game.
Conveniently located just minutes from Walt Disney World Resort and the Orlando International Airport, Hunter’s Creek Golf Club is truly an Orlando “must-play”.