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El Campeon Course at Mission Inn Resort & Club: One of Florida's great historic golf escapes
Located just northwest of Orlando in Howey-in-the-Hills, Mission Inn Resort & Club is one of Florida's great historic golf escapes. The main attraction for golfers is the El Campeon Course, which sits on a former citrus estate in the central Florida highlands and features far more elevation change, up to 85 feet, than you'd expect around Orlando.
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Grand Cypress Resort's North, South, East and New golf courses
Grand Cypress Resort features three nine-hole layouts and an 18-hole course modeled after the Old Course at St. Andrews. All of the holes were designed by Jack Nicklaus. The North, South and East nines offer a variety of holes with one constant: accuracy is more important than distance. The New Course at Grand Cypress features double greens, stone bridges and walls, gorse mounds, burns, and pot bunkers.
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Shingle Creek Golf Club in Orlando
Listed among the "Top 40 Best New Golf Courses in the U.S." by Golfweek upon opening in 2005, Shingle Creek Golf Club is conveniently located within a 15-minute drive of Orlando International Airport, the Orange County Convention Center, Sea World, Disney and Universal Studios. Shingle Creek G.C. is home to The Brad Brewer Golf Academy and the Rosen Shingle Creek resort.
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Grande Pines Golf Club in Orlando
Located on International Drive just north of Walt Disney World is Marriott's Grande Pines Golf Club. The course opened in 2003 and sits on the former site of the International Club, a Joe Lee design from 1986. The new course, designed by Steve Smyers and player consultant Nick Faldo, is entirely different and heavily shaped, full of large mounding, some water and severe bunkering.
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Celebration Golf Club near Orlando
Located south of Orlando, Celebration Golf Club was the last course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr. It winds through tall trees and wetlands, playing to a maximum yardage of 7,038 yards from the black tees with a tough slope/rating of 74.5/140. The back nine features some especially secluded, scenic holes that play tightly through trees.
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Lake Buena Vista Golf Course at Walt Disney World
Lake Buena Vista Golf Course is a classic Florida design by Joe Lee featuring raised greens, subtle doglegs and water hazards. At 6,745 yards, it's the shortest (and, many say, easiest) of the Disney golf courses. It winds through the Old Key West Resort on the front nine, while the back side takes on a more secluded feel, playing through canals and forest.
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Waldorf Astoria Golf Club in Orlando
Carved from a rare piece of vacant wetlands in the heart of Disney, Waldorf Astoria Golf Club was 10 years in the making before it opened in conjunction with the adjoining Waldorf Astoria and Hilton hotels.
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Dubsdread Golf Course
Dating back to 1924, Dubsdread Golf Course is the oldest public option in Orlando. It received a fresh renovation in 2008 to keep it up to date with the tastes of the modern player. Thankfully, the course still has all the traits of its classic design: narrow fairways and "postage stamp" greens, putting a premium on accuracy.
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Falcon's Fire Golf Club in Kissimmee
With broad fairways, Falcon's Fire Golf Club is inviting to novice golfers, while quick greens ensure that better players will also be challenged. Those visiting Orlando with Disney on their mind will enjoy Falcon's Fire G.C.'s convenient location three miles from the park's main gates.
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The International Course at ChampionsGate Golf Club
The International at the Omni Resort at ChampionsGate is something of a links-style course with fast running fairways, chipping and putting options from off the greens and more than 160 bunkers, many of them deep and penal. Still, even though the course has a design reminiscent of British Open-style golf, it still retains the natural topography of the land with marshes, wetlands and plenty of Florida wildlife.
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