Best Golf Courses In Orlando
Orlando, in central Florida, is one of the most visited cities in the world thanks in part to Walt Disney and Universal. Many tour pros have made Orlando their home, attracted by the year-round climate for playing and practising golf and the quality of the local golf offering.
Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge (Champion & Challenger)
The green on the sixth hole at Bay Hill
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- Location: Bay Hill
- Designed by: Dick Wilson; Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,381 yards
- Green fee: Private
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Arnold Palmer liked the course so much that he bought it in the mid-1970s and it became his winter home. He made some redesigns to the course, in particular bringing the greens closer to the lakesides. Those staying at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge can pay the course; otherwise its members only. There are three nine-hole layouts here with the Champion and Challenger nines those that the PGA Tour plays the Arnold Palmer Invitational on every year.
Falcon’s Fire Golf Club
Falcon’s Fire 18th green and clubhouse
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- Location: Kissimmee
- Designed by: Rees Jones
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,006 yards
- Green fee: $30-159
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Water comes into play on half the holes, and holes 13 to 17 are curved around two lakes, with 16 having a lake on either side of its fairway. Thirteen will definitely be unlucky for some – it has water all along the inside of the rightward-curving fairway, and 18 bunkers lining the left side of the fairway.
Four Seasons Orlando
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- Location: Lake Buena Vista
- Designed by: Tom Fazio
- Par: 71
- Yardage: 6,901 yards
- Green fee: $295
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The typical hole on the Tranquilo course at Four Seasons Orlando runs alongside water and is bordered by huge ribbon bunkers. However it is only late on in the round that the water is played over, rather than beside, and even then there are bail-out options. Only one of the par 3s features water, the 18th.
Isleworth
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- Location: Windermere
- Designed by: Arnold Palmer; Steve Smyers
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,544 Yards
- Green fee: Private
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This course opened in 1986 with an Arnold Palmer design. Then in 2004, Steve Smyers was called in to make some changes which toughened up the course, and he introduced a risk-reward element to some of the holes. The club is famed for its immaculate conditioning and the A list golfing figures who have lived there – and still do in many cases.
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