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At Palm Coast Golf Resort, all that, and much, much more awaits. Nestled midway between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach on Florida’s East Coast, the resort features five of the best golf courses offered in the Sunshine State, headlined by the acclaimed Jack Nicklaus-designed Ocean Hammock®. The resort is also home to a five bell rated, 80-slip marina located on the Intracoastal Waterway, 18 clay, hard and grass tennis courts, fresh and saltwater fishing and 20 miles of biking, jogging and walking trails. Fine dining is available at Flagler’s Seafood and Steaks, or for a more relaxed atmosphere Rafter’s at Pine Lakes offers home cooked dinners. Join us at Henry’s Bar and Grill for a cocktail or snack, featuring live entertainment Fridays and Saturdays. When the action is over, the resort offers more than 154 spacious rooms, each with breathtaking views of either the Intracoastal Waterway or the marina. Bottom line, if you can’t find something fun or relaxing to do at the Palm Coast Resort, you simply aren’t looking hard enough. The search for fun and challenge at Palm Coast begins and ends with its golf. The only resort to offer championship golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player all within mere miles of each other. In fact, the resort offers five spectacular golf courses – Ocean Hammock®, Pine Lakes, Matanzas Woods, Cypress Knoll and Palm Harbor – that will keep golfing visitors to Palm Coast more than occupied during a stay of any length. A stay of even one day would not be complete without visiting Ocean Hammock®, located just over the bridge spanning the Intracoastal. As one of the last oceanfront courses we’ll see built in this country, Nicklaus has taken advantage of the great land to build a true masterpiece. Eight holes, including a pair of challenging par-4s and par-3s run right along or out to the ocean, with the rest of the holes never straying too far from the coast. The challenging but breathtaking par-4 ninth and 18th are the perfect finishing holes for each side as ocean waves crash mere yards away. From start to finish, Nicklaus has created a golf course with the perfect mix of risk-reward par-5s, dogleg-left and-right par-4s and a collection of par-3s that will challenge accuracy at times and distance at others. Though it’s an ocean course, Ocean Hammock® is a playable golf course for all skill levels, helped by its five sets of tees. That is, unless the wind starts to blow, then all bets are off. The course, which opened less than two years ago, was named by Golf Digest as one of the country’s “Ten Best New Upscale Courses” and earned Golf Magazine’s distinction as one of the “Top 10 New Courses You Can Play.” While Ocean Hammock® clearly is the headliner at Palm Coast, the resort’s other four courses more than hold their own with any other in Florida. Two of those courses – Matanzas Woods and Pine Lakes – were created by Palmer. For sheer beauty and challenge, Matanzas Woods is a “must-play” while at Palm Coast. Matanzas Woods has been referred to as a “beautiful monster”. The back nine of this course will awe you with a pair of challenging par-5s, including the 529-yard 18th hole that finishes to an island green, and is reachable in two for the aggressive player. A good drive can leave a player a shot at reaching the green in two, though a lay up to fairway across the water left of the green is the conservative play. The course, which is continually ranked among the finest in Florida, can stretch to nearly 6,900 yards – a stiff challenge for even the lowest of handicaps. In Pine Lakes, Palmer has created one of the top 50 courses in Florida. With more water than Matanzas Woods and a number of bunkers and doglegs, Pine Lakes places a premium on accuracy both off the tee and on the approach. Recently named the 13th best course in the state, Pine Lakes always features beautifully maintained, rolling fairways, meticulous greens and well-placed bunkers. If you’re a nature lover who also enjoys golf, you’ll have to take in the challenge of Player’s Cypress Knoll. But if you tend to get claustrophobic in tight areas, beware this course. Beautiful Florida wetlands and dense woodlands crowd in on the narrow fairways throughout the course, placing the highest value on accuracy, especially off the tee. At only 6,591 yards from the back tees, Cypress Knoll rewards the golfers who can find the fairway rather than those who can blast through them. Unique to Cypress is the 185-yard par-3 finishing hole, which features water on the right and woodlands on the left and back of the hole. Though not a par-4 or par-5, this hole will test your resolve on the way into the clubhouse. The elder statesman of the Palm Coast five, Palm Harbor remains one of the most respected golf courses in Florida. The course features 10 doglegs and is bordered by ancient live oaks and slender sable palms. Through the years, this Bill Amick design has earned a reputation for being both breathtakingly beautiful and deceptively difficult. One thing you’ll always find at Palm Harbor is meticulously maintained grounds coupled with the highest level of customer service.
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The perfect resort has to be all things to all people. Fairway lovers need great golf. Water lovers need beaches and boats. Tennis lovers need court time and nature lovers need, well, nature.
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