Jacksonville Signature Golf Courses

If you only have time to play one course during your visit to the Jacksonville area, make it one of these signature courses that can prove to be a daunting challenge while maintaining a degree of playability for the novice among the group. After sampling just one of the finest courses the area has to offer, we have a feeling you’ll want to play the rest.

Jacksonville Signature Golf Course List

Mill Cove Golf Club
Mill Cove Golf Club

This Arnold Palmer Signature Course is a unique blend of great golf holes with wetlands and marsh areas, tree-lined fairways and native bunkers. From the five different tee settings, golfers of all skill levels will enjoy this superbly maintained and conditioned golf course. Mill... more

Windsor Parke Golf Club
Windsor Parke Golf Club

Elegantly crafted by renowned golf course architect Arthur Hills, Windsor Parke Golf Club is the premier 18-hole championship golf course in the Jacksonville area. The course, which features sculpted, rolling fairways, strategic bunkering and dramatic elevation changes typical ... more

The Golf Club at North Hampton
The Golf Club at North Hampton

"The Golf Club of North Hampton is the 7th best course you can play in Florida" - Golf WeekThe "King" himself, Arnold Palmer, designed the golf course, and we treat you like "ROYALTY!" This par-72 championship design is wrapped around more than ten crisp, spring-fed lakes lined w... more

Eagle Harbor Golf Club
Eagle Harbor Golf Club

At the core of every great golf community is a championship course that offers formidable challenges, breathtaking views, and the highest level of course maintenance and customer service. These elements have been skillfully combined at Eagle Harbor Golf Club to make this ac... more

St. Johns Golf Club
St. Johns Golf Club

Located just a half-mile off I-95 outside St. Augustine, St. Johns Golf Club is a cut above the traditional county-operated golf course. Beginning with its 27-hole Robert Walker layout that allows the course to entertain group outings and individual play at the same time, S... more

Ponte Vedra Golf and Country Club at Sawgrass
Ponte Vedra Golf and Country Club at Sawgrass

Nestled inside the gorgeous Sawgrass community, Ponte Vedra Golf and Country Club offers up a unique golf experience for residents, members and visitors to an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay original that was recently updated by former PLAYERS champion and now renowned designer Mar... more

WGV Resort - Slammer and Squire
WGV  Resort - Slammer and Squire

The Slammer & Squire, along with the entire World Golf Village, was designed to honor the great game of golf and its players. Named for legendary player consultants – Sam Snead and Gene Sarazen – Slammer & Squire has hosted six nationally televised events, fittingly i... more

Cimarrone Golf Club
Cimarrone Golf Club

Cimarrone Golf Club is again living up to its Seminole definition as "The Wild One". Located just ten minutes north of the World Golf Village off I-95, David Poselthwait's great shot-makers layout through the pine forests and thick marshlands of north Florida offers an unforgetta... more

The Golf Club at Fleming Island
The Golf Club at Fleming Island

Ranked the fifth "Best New Affordable Golf Course in America." in the January 2003 edition of Golf Digest, it is no wonder The Golf Club at Fleming Island was an official qualifying site for the 2003 U.S. Open. This Bobby Wood-designed golf course accentuates Florida's most beaut... more

Hyde Park Golf Club
Hyde Park Golf Club

They’re not making them like Hyde Park Golf Club anymore. Visitors can play virtually the same course designed by the legendary Scottish architect Donald Ross in 1925. The gorgeous Southern pines and Spanish oaks that line the course are even more mature and majestic t... more

The Cypress Course at The Grand Club
The Cypress Course at The Grand Club

Gary Player recently returned to The Cypress Course to modernize his original vision. The Cypress Course gives golfers fantastic views and backdrops, from pine and hardwood forests reminiscent of the Carolinas, to love grass and pot bunkers that might fit nicely on Scottish Links... more

The Golf Club at South Hampton
The Golf Club at South Hampton

Enjoy playing the area's newest course. Mark McCumber's unique design intent was to offer every golfer the appropriate risk-reward situations that challenges the experienced player and offers encouragement to the novice.The distinctive layout is surrounded by acres of mature pine... more

Laurel Island Links
Laurel Island Links

PGA champion Davis Love III made Laurel Island Links, located just six miles north of the Georgia border off I-95, the second course in his design portfolio when it opened in 1996. Now, Sawyer and Associates has returned this gem to its original mint condition since purchasing th... more

Eagle Landing Golf Club
Eagle Landing Golf Club

Located in northern Clay County, EastWest Partner's Eagle Landing is the sister course of the acclaimed Eagle Harbor. Both courses were designed by renowned architect Clyde Johnston. The beauty of Eagle Landing Golf Club is in its variety. There aren't any "ho-hum... more

Jacksonville Beach Golf Club
Jacksonville Beach Golf Club

Recent renovations and upgrades make for a challenging and fun test of golf. A mainstay of the Jacksonville golf scene for well over four decades, the Jacksonville Beach Golf Club has undergone a facelift of sorts the past couple of years that has revitalized the popular North... more

Panther Creek Golf Club
Panther Creek Golf Club

Go West to track down the course many feel will become the most outstanding public course in North Florida as it matures, Panther Creek Golf Club. Carved into a 600-acre forest just 9 miles west of downtown Jacksonville off I-10 and Chaffee Rd., with homes on only 4 of it... more

The Golf Club at Sanctuary Cove
The Golf Club at Sanctuary Cove

The First Coast is full of courses designed by major golf champions. But just a short hour's drive north of Jacksonville, in the St. Simons area, is one of the top new semi-private golf facilities in the southeast! The Golf Club at Sanctuary Cove is a collaborative effor... more

Amelia River Golf Club
Amelia River Golf Club

Amelia River Golf Club, formerly Royal Amelia, is renowned as one of the best-conditioned courses in the area with incredibly smooth TifEagle greens and wide Scottish Links-style fairways. This par-72 track, which plays to a yardage of 6,843 from the back tees, is maintained in p... more

The Target Course at Royal St. Augustine
The Target Course at Royal St. Augustine

Game Improvement! Royal St. Augustine is target golf at its very best. Its stout rating/slope figures for the length of the course prove the challenge of RSA, but the more you play here, the better your game will travel as well. Yet it is still a very playable layout from any o... more

Magnolia Point Golf & Country Club
Magnolia Point Golf & Country Club

Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club, a semi-private golf and tennis community in Green Cove Springs, just south of Jacksonville, is quickly becoming north Florida's newest golf hotspot and has just been re-rated to reflect the more challenging conditioning of this 27-hole ... more

The Hampton Club
The Hampton Club

The renowned course architect Joe Lee shaped The Hampton Club through ancient oak trees, lakes, lagoons and tidal marshlands, which come into view or play on all 18 holes. This relaxed balance of extraordinary beauty and harmony of nature provides a memorable round of golf at thi... more

St. Johns Golf and Country Club
St. Johns Golf and Country Club

Now into its sixth season of growth into a natural sanctuary of pine forest and wetlands less than 15 minutes south of downtown Jacksonville, St. Johns Golf and Country Club could settle into a nifty niche with the leaders among the area's semi-private courses. After all, the Nat... more

Palatka Golf Club
Palatka Golf Club

Play the highest point in Palatka! A short drive from St. Augustine, this 1925 Donald Ross design challenges all golfers. The meticulously maintained par-70 course cuts around Ravine State Gardens, creating scenic but dangerous shots into the new, well-protected greens. The resta... more

Royal Amelia Golf Links
Royal Amelia Golf Links

Royal Amelia Golf Links is renowned as one of the best-conditioned courses in the area with incredibly smooth TifEagle greens and wide Scottish links style fairways. This par 72 track, which plays to a yardage of 6,843 from the back tees, is always in pristine shape with well man... more

WGV Resort - The King and Bear
WGV Resort - The King and Bear

For the first time in history, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have paired to create the King & Bear. The King & Bear is the only course collaboration between golf's greatest legends. Putting aside their legendary rivalry, these two Hall of Famers have collaborated on a truly rem... more

Ocean Hammock at Palm Coast
Ocean Hammock at Palm Coast

Ocean Hammock at Palm Coast, a Jack Nicklaus Signature design, is a beautiful, challenging 18-hole course with eight holes that overlook the ocean, including a magnificent 468-yard par-4 finishing hole. Ocean Hammock features plenty of classic Nicklaus design features - visual... more

Jacksonville Golf News

Jacksonville to celebrate 20th anniversary of McCumbers' PLAYERS triumph
Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Jacksonville native Mark McCumber dreamed of one day capturing the event now known as the PLAYERS Championship but struggled to find success in the tournament he wanted to win so badly for all of...
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Fred Klauk prepares Sawgrass for The Players Championship
Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Fred Klauk will wrap up a 23-year stint as the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) Class A superintendent at TPC Sawgrass by prepping for The PLAYERS Championship one...
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Golf’s leadership converges on Capitol Hill for First National Golf Day
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some of golf’s most influential leaders and members of the game’s most prominent associations converged on the nation’s capitol to celebrate a bipartisan...
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