This Is The Best Golf Course In FL, Say Pro Golfers Who’ve Played It

FLORIDA — Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach is the best golf course Florida has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves.

Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics and character.

“No club has tinkered with its golf course as often or as effectively over the decades as has Augusta National Golf Club, mainly to keep it competitive for the annual Masters Tournament, an event it has conducted since 1934, with time off during WWII. All that tinkering has resulted in an amalgamation of design ideas, with a routing by Alister Mackenzie and Bobby Jones, some Perry Maxwell greens, some Trent Jones water hazards, some Jack Nicklaus mounds and swales and, most recently, extensive rebunkering and tree planting by Tom Fazio. The tinkering continues, including the lengthening of the par-4 fifth in the summer of 2018, the lengthening of the 11th and 15th holes in 2022, and the addition of 35 yards to the famed par-5 13th in 2023,” Golf Digest wrote.

There are plenty of other courses in Florida that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges.

They are:

• TPC Sawgrass: Stadium in Ponte Vedra Beach
• Calusa Pines Golf Club in Naples
• Jupiter Hills Club: Hills in Tequesta
• The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton
• Streamsong Resort: Red in Bowling Green
• The Dye Course at White Oak in Yulee
• McArthur Golf Club in Hobe Sound
• Streamsong Resort: Blue in Bowling Green
• Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound

This is the 25th edition of Golf Digest’s Best in State ranking, which has been published continually since 1977.

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