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

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

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

Public golfers can discover why club members are already so comfortable here: a casually elegant clubhouse with fully stocked pro shop; a nicely appointed restaurant; an outside snack bar; and a porch for relaxing. The meeting room and administration staff can provide for the bus... 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

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 Mark ... 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 ... 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 its ... 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 - 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, fitti... 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

Royal St. Augustine Golf & Country Club
Royal St. Augustine Golf & Country Club

The J. Christopher Commons-designed golf course at Royal St. Augustine Golf and Country Club is properly depicted as target golf at its very best, placing a premium on accuracy and distance control. The course is located in Florida’s oldest city in the epicenter of ̶... 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

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

Amelia River Golf Club
Amelia River Golf Club

Residing on a delicate Northeast Florida barrier island, Amelia River Golf Club, formerly Royal Amelia, is an example of a golf course in perfect harmony with nature. This Tom Jackson-design is renowned as one of the best-conditioned courses in the area with incredibly smooth a... more

Mill Cove Golf Club
Mill Cove Golf Club

Originally opened in 1990, Mill Cove Golf Club is now under new management committed to giving the club a clean break and allowing the course conditions to do justice to the Arnold Palmer layout. The pervading theme at Mill Cove is playability. The 18-hole championship cour... more

Ocean Course at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort
Ocean Course at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort

Ocean Course at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort, 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 Course features plenty of classic Nicklaus design feat... 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

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

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. As a testament to the quality and challenge provided by the facility, Windsor Parke has hosted more USGA qualifying event... 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

Crafting the perfect combination of conditioning, challenge, beauty and value, Eagle Landing Golf Club has fast distinguished itself as one of North Florida’s most popular and sought after semi-private golf courses. Crafted by renowned architect Clyde Johnston, Eagle Lan... 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

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

Jacksonville Beach Golf Club
Jacksonville Beach Golf Club

Jacksonville Beach Golf Club, the only public golf course in the beaches area, has been steadily improving its facility over the past few years to provide golfers with the best possible course conditions and overall experience. Renovations and upgrades make this a very challengin... more

Selva Marina Country Club
Selva Marina Country Club

Preserving the Past. Building the Future… Acountry club that’s actually unpretentious and, yes, FUN. One of Jacksonville’s most venerable country clubs, Selva Marina in Atlantic Beach, loves its tradition of over a half-century of innovative service to its m... more

Cimarrone Golf Club
Cimarrone Golf Club

Newly equipped with Paspalum greens to create a consistent state of year-round playability, Cimarrone Golf Club is entering a new era. The veteran course located just ten minutes north of the World Golf Village off I-95 has never looked better, but David Postlethwait’s terr... more

Hidden Hills Country Club
Hidden Hills Country Club

Hidden Hills Country Club occupies the highest point on the map in the Greater Jacksonville area, but that’s not the only unique aspect of the historic facility. From 1970-72 the club was home to the Greater Jacksonville Open, precursor to the modern day PLAYERS Championshi... more

Amelia National Golf & Country Club
Amelia National Golf & Country Club

Since its opening in 2006, Amelia National Golf & Country Club has enjoyed a meteoric rise in reputation among the best private clubs in North Florida. Set in beautiful Fernandina Beach near Amelia Island, Amelia National is the work of Tom Fazio, a man with more Golf Digest Top ... 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

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