8 Florida Courses Make Golf Magazine’s Top 100

PALM HARBOR, FL — Golf Magazine has rolled out its Top 100 list of publicly playable courses across the country with eight in Florida earning honors, including two in the Tampa Bay area.

Top honors in the magazine’s annual ranking went to Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. That course was followed closely by Pacific Dunes in Bandon, Oregon.

Florida’s first entry on the list comes in at a respectable No. 7. TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach is described as “variety-filled and occasionally terror-inducing,” by Golf Magazine. The venue has been home to the PGA Tour’s Players Championship since 1982. It costs between $350 and $495 to play this course.

Streamsong Resort Red in Streamsong earned 10th place honors. The course, the magazine noted, is famed for its “tall, odd-shaped sand piles, significant climbs and drops, firm, fast-running Bermuda fairways and more.” The cost to play here ranges from $85 to $255.

Not to be left out, Streamsong Resort Blue earned 14th-place rankings. The course in Streamsong costs between $85 and $255 to play.

Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster ranked 18th overall.

“An extraordinary makeover form Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner took what had become a tired resort course and turned it into one of the toughest tests on the PGA Tour,” the magazine pointed out. This course in Miami costs between $250 and $450 to play.

The first course in the Top 100 ranking from the Tampa Bay area is World Woods (Pine Barrens) in Brooksville. This course earned 35th place, putting it squarely in the top 50. The cost to play this Tom Fazio design ranges from $40 to $119, the magazine said.

Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club in Orlando came in 45th place. The cost to play here ranges from $90 to $324.

Palm Harbor’s own Innisbrook came in 72nd place. “This 44-year-old, Tampa-area layout sports Carolina-like towering pines and surprisingly hilly terrain, along with fiercely trapped, elevated greens,” the magazine noted. The cost to play ranges from $165 to $350.

Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast is the last Florida course on the list. Ranked at 86, the course costs between $99 and $225 to play.

To read Golf magazine's entire Top 100, click here.

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