Your Golf Travel Inspiration
Our first choice over the many years we’ve been coming to Orlando for a relaxing golf getaway is Grand Cypress Golf Club. The choice of staying at the roomy Villas of Grand Cypress at the golf course or the iconic 1500-acre Hyatt Regency Resort with a private lake nearby is a most difficult one. But
Champions Gate features two premier golf courses both designed by Greg Norman. Seldom are two sister courses side-by-side so different. The National Course is an American style course that winds through hundreds of acres of secluded woodlands, wetlands and former orange groves.
A coastal links-style, the International Course consists of wetlands, dunes, pot bunkers and tall natural grasses with water is visible on virtually every hole. While the International is challenging, it’s not as picturesque as its sister course – The National.
Only one resort can claim three signature courses from the worlds greatest legends: Nicklaus, Watson, and Palmer. If you only have time for one, play the Watson Course.
Architect Jack Nicklaus blended natural noble saguaros in the High Sonoran Desert with vistas of the surrounding Tortolita Mountains to create 27 holes of challenging and scenic golf at Dove Mountain Golf Club. The Club hosted the Accenture World Match Play Championship for six years from 2009 to 2014.
Twenty-seven immaculately conditioned holes and firm greens with challenging layouts and great views. An immense practice range and the short game area is ideal for serious practice sessions.
These golf views at the base of the Santa Catalina mountains are magnificent. A mix of demanding Par4s and short, intriguing Par4s coupled with the visual splendor, tranquility, and perfect conditioning make this a rewarding experience.
A renovation has vaulted the Palmer course to the second best course at PGA National behind the venerable Tour quality Champions course.
A Nicklaus layout, the Champions Course is known for the The Bear Trap – Holes 15,16 and 17 – perhaps the most diabolical three consecutive holes in golf. The resort is large, luxurious and legendary.
Stunning scenery with rock formations, cacti, elevation changes and water are features of the more challenging South Course.
Green-side bunkers are extensive yet the North Course is less difficult than the South Course. Both courses are peppered with native saguaro cacti and rock formations.
A Greg Norman layout in Orlando integral within the luxurious Grande Lakes hotel complex with Marriott and Ritz Carlton. Wide fairways, limited rough and large greens are superbly manicured.
A quintessential Coachella Valley desert course with impeccable conditioning, close mountain views and reasonable prices. And it’s a PGA Tour quality course.
