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The Top 100 Resort Courses

Every course on this list takes a tee time — no member required. From Bandon's bluffs to Pinehurst's sandhills, Golfweek's ranking of America's best resort golf, paired with the amateur tournaments you can actually enter at each one.

  1. #12TPC Sawgrass

    TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium)

    Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida · Pete Dye, 1980

    The original stadium course and home of The Players — capped by the most famous island green in golf.

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  2. #17Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Red

    Bowling Green, Florida · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2012

    Coore-Crenshaw strategy woven through the dunes of a reclaimed phosphate mine — Florida golf that plays nothing like Florida.

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  3. #19Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Blue

    Bowling Green, Florida · Tom Doak, 2012

    Doak's bolder half of Streamsong's original pair — bigger dunes, wilder greens, and the famous punchbowl seventh.

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  4. T27Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Black

    Bowling Green, Florida · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2017

    The biggest and brawniest of Streamsong's three — Hanse's enormous greens and open vistas across the old mine land.

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  5. T46Cabot Citrus Farms

    Karoo

    Brooksville, Florida · Kyle Franz, 2024

    Cabot's Florida flagship — sandy, rambunctious golf over the rolling terrain of old citrus country north of Tampa.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  6. T67Bay Hill Club & Lodge

    Bay Hill

    Orlando, Florida · Dick Wilson (redesigned by Arnold Palmer), 1961

    Arnold Palmer's winter home and the PGA Tour's Orlando anchor — stay at the lodge, play the King's course.

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  7. T78PGA National Resort

    The Champion

    Palm Beach Gardens, Florida · Tom & George Fazio (redesigned by Jack Nicklaus), 1981

    Home of the PGA Tour's Cognizant Classic and the infamous "Bear Trap" — three holes that wreck scorecards annually.

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  8. #97Innisbrook Resort

    Copperhead

    Palm Harbor, Florida · Larry Packard, 1974

    Florida's rare hilly test — the PGA Tour's Valspar Championship venue with its closing "Snake Pit" gauntlet.

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    1 past amateur event hosted