Jacksonville / Palm Coast, Florida

The Conservatory Course at Hammock Beach Resort is a Tom Watson Signature design featuring dramatic elevations and undulating greens not commonly found in Florida. With meticulously maintained fairways and immaculate greens, this masterpiece provides tournament conditions every day. Players can't help but be inspired by the view of waterfalls, babbling brooks, veneered field stone work and 140 sand, natural coqina and multiple sod-faced bunkers - a nod to the designer's affinity for British links-style golf.

The Conservatory signature hole is number 8, a challenging Par-3 with an ample island green. The 18th hole, featuring a tee box at an elevation of almost 100 feet, offers great panoramic views of nearly the entire course. With six tee boxes at each hole, the longest playing at 7,746 yards, the course will accommodate all skill levels.

Players must stay at the Hammock Beach Resort to play The Conservatory course.

Placing players on the brink of the Atlantic Ocean, the award-winning Ocean Course is one of the best examples of oceanfront golf perfection. This "Top 100" course winds along pristine wetlands and sparkling lakes, but also plays six magnificent holes directly on the Atlantic Ocean. This Jack Nicklaus Signature Design concludes with a thrilling finale dubbed "The Bear Claw" - a collection of four holes precariously edging the sweeping coastline. On these holes, you will experience tees, fairways and greens perched atop natural sand dunes with incredible views and sounds of the Atlantic Ocean.

Simply, the finishing holes at the Ocean Course are considered to be among the world's most memorable finishing holes. And in its short lifespan, the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach has earned a long list of awards, most notably, Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses", "Top 10 New Courses You Can Play", and Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses You Can Play in America".

Players must stay at the Hammock Beach Resort to play The Ocean course.

This golf course may only be booked as part of a "Stay & Play" package. Please see the "Amelia Island Plantation - Stay & Play" listing on the lodging page for details.

The Oak Marsh Golf Course is one of the truly classic Pete Dye-designed golf courses in the world. The course, built in 1972 shortly after the completion of the Harbour Town Golf Links at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is noted for its tight fairways and small greens, meandering along serpentine salt marsh creeks and through the moss draped heritage oaks for which Amelia Island is famous.

At par 72, this 6,500- yard course has 14 holes with water hazards and numerous bulkheaded greens. A variety of bunkers are placed throughout the course to add to the challenge and a natural approach has been maintained as well with the use of coquina shell cart paths, native plant life and preserved habitats for the local wildlife. Walking is allowed after 4:00 pm. Oak Marsh played host to the 1991 PGA Section Championship and 1992 Society of Seniors Championship. In addition, numerous resort tournaments are played here. Oak Marsh has been included in Golf Digest's prestigious list of the "Top 75 Resort Courses in the U.S." Oak Marsh also was selected by Travel & Leisure golf as one of "Florida's 50 Finest Courses."

This golf course may only be booked as part of a "Stay & Play" package. Please see the "Amelia Island Plantation - Stay & Play" listing on the lodging page for details.

Winding along a coastal Atlantic dune ridge, Ocean Link's #4, #5, #6, #15 and #16 provide golfers with five oceanfront golf holes. The fairways and greens are parallel to the beaches of Amelia Island and meander through a unique coastal maritime hammock. This close proximity to the ocean and the ever changing sea breeze provide the golfer with exhilarating views and intriguing play.

Amelia River (formerly Royal Amelia) is renowned as one of the best-conditioned courses in the area with incredibly smooth TifEagle greens, sculpted around a forest of majestic live oaks, sabal palms, pines and wax myrtles. This par 72 track, designed by Tom Jackson, which plays to a yardage of 6,823 from the back tees, is always in pristine shape with well-manicured rolling fairways, smooth bunkers and greens that challenge all skill levels. This course is unique in character and is a treat to play.

Amelia River consists of 18-holes of challenging golf where ball control and accuracy are keys to a great game. The first hole at Amelia River is located along the border of the Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport, as are #5 and #13. These fairways are wide and open giving the golfer a sense of a traditional Scottish links course. Enjoy these holes while you can because the rest contain individual and groups of trees that, while adding beauty to the course, require cautious ball placement.

The Southeast is home to some of the country's most established and famous golf courses. And now, the legacy continues at Amelia National. Tom Fazio is recognized for his dramatically beautiful and extremely playable designs. He has the unique ability to transform even the most challenging natural settings into award-winning courses.

Tom Fazio has composed a true masterpiece here that promises to challenge players of every level. Designed to provide a memorable playing experience time after time, the course was painstakingly sculpted to create interesting contours. Florida's famous fine-textured Bermuda grass is meticulously manicured to maintain close, fast greens. And an abundance of water tests players' ability while providing a beautiful, natural setting.

Players of all abilities will enjoy Cimarrone's par-72, 6891 yard championship layout located in Jacksonville. Designed by renowned architect, David Postlethwait, Cimarrone's manicured course conditions and challenging design provides a fun, player-friendly experience for players of all abilities. Beginners will enjoy Cimarrone's well-defined fairways and magnificent greens. Advanced players will appreciate numerous risk-reward opportunities provided by strategically placed bunkers and a water or marsh feature on every hole.

What brings some of the region's finest golfers to Jacksonville's Deercreek for events like the US Amateur, US Open and USGA Senior Amateur qualifiers? Officials know the Deercreek layout brings out the competitive golfer in each of us with it's challenging carries, demanding doglegs, and sentinel pines lining the fairways. Is Deercreek too demanding? Not at all. Five sets of tees make the course novice-friendly, yet also challenging to the expert golfer. Tee to green, the course offers lengths from 4,758 yards to 6,702 yards, Par-71 for men, Par-73 for ladies.

Clyde Johnston has designed this gem of a course located between Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Carved out of a pine forest and around wetlands, the course at St. Johns Golf & Country Club offers a great test for every skill level. Five tees plus a family tee vary the length of the course from 7,200 yards down to 2,400 yards.

Depending on wind conditions, the 18-hole course can be a real challenge. Take your time and enjoy the surroundings for the next four hours. New carts with GPS will help make a comfortable and enjoyable experience for our club guests in addition to getting off to a proper start with a warmup on our fine golf practice facility. St. Johns Golf & Country Club has been a proud host course for PGA Tour Q-School qualifiers and many more great regional tournaments.

Designed by renowned architect, Arthur Hills, over the past 10 years Windsor Parke Golf Club has consistently been chosen by the United States Golf Association and Florida State Golf Association to host sectional and regional qualifying for the North Florida area. USGA Qualifying events staged at Windsor Parke include the US Amateur, US Open, US Junior Amateur, US Publinks, US Senior Open and US Mid Amateur. Our beautiful Par-72 championship design, complete with five sets of tees, winds through natural hardwoods and a series of nine pristine lakes, creating a great test for all players.

For the playability, challenge, conditioning, amenities and service, ours has been rated by Golf Digest as 4-Star "Places to Play".

The "KING" himself, Arnold Palmer, designed this formidable golf course just north of Jacksonville and is within minutes of the Jacksonville airport. This par 72 championship design was routed along natural wetlands, large spring-fed lakes lined with coquina boulders and rolling hills with elevations over 40 feet. The wild grasses and rolling fairways give you the feel of an Old Scottish Links Course. Five sets of tees will enable golfers of all skill levels to choose the level of challenge desired.

Enormous centuries-old live oaks, dripping with Spanish moss grace this Mark McCumber designed Royal Course - a masterpiece chiseled out of 1,000 acres of native woodland and tidal marshlands. The beautifully groomed Jacksonville course is bordered by the intercoastal waterway that also serves as home to our scenic Yacht Marina. Of all the area golf courses, the challenge and scenery of Queen's Harbor truly sets it apart as one of the finest. The breathtaking magnitude of the par-72 course provides a challenge that is appreciated by professionals and amateurs alike. The course has hosted such prestigious events as the PGA Tour Qualifier and the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships.

Golf amenities available to our guests include a chipping/putting green and driving range. Other features of our club include a full-service clubhouse with dining choices, sweeping verandas, and the 19th hole that overlooks the beautiful freshwater marina.

This beautiful layout in south Jacksonville offers every golfer the appropriate risk-reward situations that challenges experienced players and offers encouragement to the novice. Sixteen large lakes and over sixty contoured bunkers, in combination with meticulous landscaping, provide players with a very scenic, playable and challenging course. Our superbly conditioned facility features four tee boxes and stretches to a length of 6,952 yards from the tips. The distinctive layout will test shot-making abilities and require the use of every club in the golf bag.

You must stay at Sawgrass Resort to play this course.

Come and enjoy the toughest Par-70 in the Jacksonville area with six incredible par-3's and a formidable 6,413 from the back tees. Created by Arnold Palmer Design, Ponte Vedra Golf and Country Club is one of the finest courses inside the Sawgrass community and features beautiful tree-lined fairways and mildly undulating greens that require solid iron play and a deft touch with the short game.

You must stay at Sawgrass Resort to play this course.

Designed by Arnold Palmer's chief architect, Ed Seay, the golf course at Marsh Landing Country Club is exceptional due to its design and natural environment. The 6,841-yard, par-72 layout weaves past pockets of intracoastal marshes and towering pines. Its a tremendous challenge for players, and a visual splendor as well, as the course is also home to an extraordinary array of wildlife. Exotic birds flit from one ancient oak tree draped with Spanish moss to another, while osprey can be seen skimming the water as they approach their nests in the neighboring lagoons.

You must stay at Sawgrass Resort to play this course.

The Sawgrass Country Club features 27 holes of championship golf, designed by noted course architect, Ed Seay of Palmer Course Design. Consistently ranked in the top 100 courses to play and among the "Best in State" by Golf Digest, subscribers also rated Sawgrass in the top 10 courses in terms of service. Players encounter water on 24 of the 27 holes throughout the medley of challenging nines that stretch across rolling dunes constantly freshened by ocean breezes. The 7,072-yard, par-72 East/West rotation has earned the time-honored distinction as "the original Sawgrass."

The Sawgrass Oceanside Course (East-West) gained its reputation as the original home of PGA Tour THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP from 1977-1981 when the course, along with the treacherous March winds, tested the greatest players in the game. The par-72 East-West course has an array of spectacular golf holes, most notably the daunting par 5, East No. 4 with a tantalizing peek at the ocean as you make your way from the green to the next tee.

Players must stay at the Sawgrass Resort to play this course.

The TPC Stadium Course at Sawgrass is perhaps the world's most famous golf course. Boasting eighteen of the most incredible golf holes ever designed for one course, this Pete Dye masterpiece winds through North Florida's natural wetland landscape culminating with the internationally famous 17th Hole Island Green - arguably the signature hole of the entire sport.

Annually ranked as one of the "Top 100 Courses in the World", the course was built to challenge pros like no other track had done before while providing an unprecedented experience for spectators at the same time. Now the permanent home of THE PLAYERS Championship each May, The TPC Stadium Course hosts an elite international field of the world's top players, and now guests from around the world can come and play the famed course as well.

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You must stay at the Sawgrass Resort to play this course.

Designed by Pete Dye, Bobby Weed, and player consultant Jerry Pate, the Valley Course is the "younger brother" of the Stadium Course. Finished in 1987, the golf course has hosted events such as the SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, the NFL Golf Classic, and the final stage of Senior Qualifying School. Water comes into play on 6,838 yards along 18 holes, while fairways filled with hills and valleys create additional challenges. The Valley Course is a bit milder than its sister course, but it has more undulation in the fairways than the Stadium Course. Because this facility is situated only one mile from the ocean, the wind can become a major factor.

Golfers have long enjoyed playing Bent Creek Golf Course, the City of Jacksonville's public golf course. Since Bent Creeks's opening in 1989, the 6,620-yard course has provided a fun and challenging golf experience for residents of Northeast Florida and visitors alike.

Crafted by renowned architect Bobby Weed with consulting services by Mark McCumber, Bent Creek's meandering terrain takes golfers through a certified Audubon Cooperative Golf Sanctuary of towering pines, Florida live oaks, alongside creeks and natural swales. The championship layout boasts bent grass greens, plush fairways and a state of the art lighted practice facility.

The Champions Club is an 18-hole semi-private championship course conveniently located in the Julington Creek Plantation south of Jacksonville. The scenic course is timeless in its design and represents a graceful retreat to the traditional designs of the past. It offers challenging play for both beginning and more advanced players with with four sets of tees and stretches to a length of 6,908 yards. The facility features all the amenities of a private club and welcomes Golf Zoo guests to our stately clubhouse surrounded by finely-manicured grounds.

PGA head golf professional Aaron Millikin described the Eagle Harbor course as one that is enjoyable for golfers of all skill levels. "The course will teach them to use a variety of clubs and strategies; and will mean using more than just a 3-wood and a pitching wedge."

The 18-hole "Eagle Harbor" course at the Eagle Harbor Golf Club facility in Orange Park, Florida features 6,840 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73.4 and it has a slope rating of 141 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Clyde B. Johnston, ASGCA, the Eagle Harbor golf course opened in 1993 and has received a 4-Star rating by Golf Digest Magazine.

The 7,037 yard Clyde Johnston design weaves through the Jacksonville, Florida landscape and takes on a vintage feel as he incorporates several of the classic design holes from around the world into the par-72 layout. Says Johnston, "My goal is to intersperse classic holes such as the Redan Hole, the Eden, and the Cardinal into the routing in order to lend a sense of purity to the golf experience at Eagle Landing. Those individual designs are so technically and aesthetically complete that they can truly elevate a golfing experience."

Johnston's philosophy in designing a Club course remains the same as his other courses; begin each nine relatively easy and progressively get harder. The Eagle Landing course offers six sets of tees, from championship to youth tees, allowing the course to play as easy or as difficult as desired. Eagle Landing also offers a magnificent golf clubhouse with sports bar, fully-stocked pro shop, his and her locker rooms, and an elegant restaurant overlooking sparkling water and lush fairways.

The Golf Club at Fleming Island in Jacksonville, Florida offers players an award-winning golf experience from the moment they arrive. Designed by local architect Bobby Weed, Fleming Island provides players with a stunning design and diverse backdrops of native wetlands, dense timbers, and waste areas. The 18 hole layout stretches to more than 6,800 yards from the Championship tees and will challenge all players with a links-style front nine, followed by the parkland style finishing nine. Throughout its existence, The Golf Club at Fleming Island has earned the mark of a champion. Since our opening in 2000, we offer our guests an award-winning experience, which has included the following national honors: "Best New Affordable Public Golf Course in America" by Golf Digest, and Sectional Qualifing site for 2003 United States Open.

A Gary Player masterpiece, the Cypress Course at Grand Club in Palm Coast gives golfers a variety of scenic backdrops, from pine and hardwood forests reminiscent of the Carolinas to love grass and pot-bunkers that would fit nicely on Scottish Links. This Signature course is unmistakably Northeast Florida with its marshlands, lakes, tall cypress and oak trees and magnificent wildlife. Playing to a length of 6,800 yards from the back tees, Golfers of all skill levels will enjoy the challenge and scenery of one of Northeast Florida's favorite courses.

This 7,050 yard course is the longest at the Grand Club, located in Palm Coast. The Arnold Palmer Signature design Pine Course features rolling fairways and a generous open layout surrounded by native hardwoods, water hazards and high-lipped bunkers protecting large, undulating greens. A fixture among the rankings of Florida's best, the Pine Course has hosted scores of professional and prestigious amateur events and is rated 4-Stars by Golf Digest.

"Walking in the footsteps of a legend" is the feeling one experiences at Grand Haven Golf Club in Palm Coast, Florida. Personally designed by golfing legend Jack Nicklaus, it is among a select group of courses in the world that can truly be called a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course. The manicured greens and fairways of this par 72 course offer a challenge worthy of the world's top players. At the same time, it provides enjoyable year-round play for members and guests at every level.

"Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player, yet, because of more generous fairways and approachable pin-locations on these pristine greens, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy." - Jack Nicklaus