Turnberry Isle Miami – Miller Course

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There is a legendary golf vacation destination set in Miami, Florida called Turnberry Isle Miami – Miller Course that displays a Mediterranean-style property hosting luscious greens and a rejuvenating sight of wide acres. Renovated four years ago with an ample budget of $150 million, this famous golf course was installed of 392-rooms attractive to golf enthusiasts all over the world. The award as a Premier Resort Silver Medal from Golf Magazine still glitters like the sunshine in Florida for this highly celebrated golf location.

The Turnberry Isle Miami – Miller Courseis one of two on-property golf courses together with Soffer Course. With the works of golf architect, Raymond Floyd, the property was re-energized from its original design by Robert Trent Jones Sr. There are now more contoured fairways, sharp doglegs, magnificent water hazards, elevated alterations and interesting bunkers at place to provide a feel for a professional tournament in the area. The par 70 course is a stretch of 6,417 yards and 72.0/143. Having a waterfall as centerpiece, a Lake Julius for numerous back nine holes, and the fairways as tactic thrilling, this golf trip location has opened the doors for electrifying games like the LPGA tour events.

As part of the stay and play golf vacation package, Turnberry Isle Miami – Miller Course also offers the Spa & Fitness Center where golfers can make golf-swing strategic sessions while having a relaxing spa treatment. A statistically sought for option, though, is soaking up the sun at Ocean Club by the Atlantic. Just a 20 minutes shuttle ride from Fort Lauderdale Airport and a shuttle ride from Miller course, the resort also serves steak which has become the top dining pick for most golfers. 

Turnberry Isle Miami – Soffer Course

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The Turnberry Isle Miami – Soffer Course is part of the two-property community at Turnberry Isle Miami, Florida along with the Miller Course. This golf vacation destination features a spread of tropical greens with elevated grounds as accent. Fairways sculpted finely and sharp shifts within the holes together with a gradient of colorful trees and flowers make this golf course a perfect spot for a vacation. The scenery is blazed with the revitalizing sunshine that is unique only to Florida’s oasis-like climate.

With around $100,000 cost for re-landscaping, this Raymond Floyd-redesigned golf trip destination shows a magnificent waterfall that greets guest golf enthusiasts at the first hole. That display only intrigues most golfers to find out what is in store as the player progresses to the last hole. Compared to its adjacent course, the Turnberry Isle Miami – Soffer Course is more exigent with a size that flexes about 7,000 yards from the championship tees. It is where golfers perform a dramatic golf game where they can maximize their most unique tactical strategies.

Putting more appeal to the golf vacation course is the sanctuary of Auburn birds and other exotic fauna only found in Florida. Flamingos nesting on “Flamingo Island” within easy reach on the resort add charm to the location. But what makes Turnberry Isle Miami – Soffer Course a perfect spot for a golf vacation is the breeze of the warm ocean that sways comfort into a day of thrilling golfing. Truly, this place is a golf location that any golf fanatic looks for.

Grand Haven Golf Club at Palm Coast

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Grand Haven Golf Club at Palm Coast makes it literally possible to walk in the footsteps of a legend. Personally designed by golf legend, Jack Nicklaus, this golf vacation destination in Florida is the only course that is called a Jack Nicklaus Signature. With rolling greens sculpted meticulously and fairways of par 72, this course offers a competitive and player-friendly atmosphere that only a true golf champion can set-up. This is where both professional players and golf enthusiasts come to experience top notch golf plays for the whole year.

Only minutes away from Grand Haven Golf Club at Palm Coast is a magnificent view of the Atlantic Ocean. Also in sight is the 1,400 acres Coastal Florida that bristles in front of the Intracoastal Waterway and a conservation land that spreads about 4,000 acres between two Flagler County parks adjacent to each other. A golf vacation clubhouse also seats at this foremost golf course.

Apart from golfing, the Grand Haven Golf Club at Palm Coast also offers two recreational centers to host a list of exciting activities. Complete amenities for children as well as adults are ready to provide for an array of needs. People can also find Real Estate options starting from low-maintenance households to high-end waterfront estates. Grand Haven Builders have designed the residential places for golf enthusiasts who want a daily sight or play at the reputed golf trip destination. The features as well as the fame truly make this place a haven for challenge, excitement and comfort.

Eagle Landing

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Located in Jacksonville, Florida, the East Landing is now transformed into a new  family-oriented golf vacation destination. After being redesigned, this course is now made more appealing both to its neighboring community as well as to professional golfers around the world. The 18-hole championship layout rolls on a Village green in a way that is unique for North Florida. The course is a community green with a float of a lake where canoes dock eager for an enthusiasts to rent. Kayaks are also around with a hired experts who can assist any adventurous hungry adult. At the gymnasium are an aquatic center and a tennis complex to provide an option for those who want to lay low after golfing all day.

East Landing is a community ideally stationed in Clay County making it ready for East West Communities’ development. They are handled by the same team who created the Eagle Harbor that is known to be one of the most successful communities in the country. The 7,037 yards golf vacation place was weaved by Clyde Johnston. The renowned golf architect incorporated a classic design into the holes of the par 72 plan setting up holes like Redan Hole, the Eden, and the Cardinal into the routing in a systematic way.

Lending a sense of purity into the golf course was the main plan for the East Landing golf trip destination. The course puts a golf experiences into an elevated standard as it carries a distinct philosophy. Starting with fairly easy nines and ending with something complex with each six tees progressing skillfully provide a kind of momentum that not all golf courses can offer.

Deer Creek Golf Club

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Located in Deerfield Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, Deer Creek Golf Club is a prodigiously designed golf vacation destination with an expansion that offers a total of four-hours round of golf. Known as the “Best Course in Broward County” by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s City Link Magazine, this golf location is also rated with 4-Stars by Golf Magazine and labeled as the “Best Places to Play” in South Florida.

Golf architect Arthur Hills painted Deer Creek Golf Club with a carpet of TifEagle bermuda greens on the sizeable rippling greens. The variations of elevated tees on the 7,050 yards from the back tees provide eye catching and heart jumping drama to anyone’s golf vacation. Low handicapper and players with a range of skills will definitely find the challenge in Deer Creek memorable. The club also showcases other amenities like practice areas, golf shop, grille area and the highly reputed Key West-style clubhouse.

The clubhouse at Deer Creek Golf Club is a 30,000 square foot centerpiece catching golfers’ attention since February 1991. At the entrance, golfers can visit the 2,500 square feet golf pro shop that exhibits a complete line of golf equipment. Maintaining its honor as the “Merchandiser of the Year” by the PGA of America, the Deer Creek golf shop is staffed with PGA Professionals to insure quality of golf trip service. Also inside the clubhouse are dining, banquet, retail and locker room facilities along with “Old Florida” photographs and collectables as adornment to add intricacy and style to the place. A patio at the clubhouse’ Grille also give golfers a chance to take a glimpse of the vast golf course scenery.

Heron Bay Golf Club

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As the former host of the PGA TOUR Honda Classic, Heron Bay Golf Club is identified as “Top Ten Places To Play” by Golf Magazine. World champions Stuart Appleby, Mark Calcavecchia, Vijay Singh, Dudley Hart, Jesper Parnevik and Matt Kuchar called Heron their home for six exciting years since 1997. The three 18-holes golf vacation destination that is proud of its championship course is open for daily operations. With approximately 100 bunkers, middling sized greens and five tees of different lengths, this golf club extends about 7,268 to 4,950 yards.

Standing at the final Royal Palm of the avenue at Heron Bay Golf Club is an Addison-Mizner style clubhouse that welcomes guests in a sophisticated lobby with a coral stone fireplace as centerpiece. A gallery of trophies and other facilities like locker rooms separate for men and women are present together with a service grille. Before diving into the thrill of a golf trip, golfers can also prepare at the multi-tiered practice location with complete practice balls, target greens that replicate the actual ground and an area for a short game.

Ten-time PGA Tour winner and acclaimed golf architect, Mark McCumber, used his experienced and structural standards to build the topical and natural atmosphere of this course. Instead of tiers and mounding which other golf courses have, subtle configurations are what Heron Bay Golf Club showcases. Forced carries are not present on the layout, making it friendly to all golfers especially those who have less experienced on the field. Adjacent to Heron is the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention Center making the location more inviting for stay-and-play golf vacation packages.

Parkland Golf & Country Club

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As the second collaboration between the Toll Brothers and Greg Norman, the Parkland Golf & Country Club is designed to delicately preserve the golf trip tradition and aggressively advocate the protection for the environment. This course is the only Greg Norman designed course in Broward County that meets the standards of the Audubon International Gold Signature Sanctuary criteria. Embracing the philosophy of Mother Nature, this famous golf course in Fort Lauderdale, Florida adapts the simplistic nature of golf with the fun-filled and competitive air of every professional golf tournament.

Having a 7,100 yard layout and a sought after 19th hole bonus, the Parkland Golf & Country Club is nostalgic of Australia’s sandbelt links. Three distinct zones provides a pattern throughout the rolling greens of this golf vacation destination. A low hammock, pine flatland, wall-to-wall SeaDwark Paspalum grass on all tees, fairways and practice areas sprawl on the gentle terrain with grass marshes and a line of ponds.

The centerpiece of this community is a 43,000 square-foot Sports Club that is known for its pursuit to elicit excitement as it provides an enjoying space for recreational activities that meet the preference of customers from different ages. Also part of this facility in Parkland Golf & Country Club is a 7,000 square-foot Fitness Center with a golf vacation package that offers a la mode equipment like steams, weight training and separate men’s and ladies’ locker rooms. Keeping to its family-oriented environment, the sports club also includes Children’s Activity Center indoors as well as a play terrace outdoors. 

Hillcrest Golf & Country Club

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Redesigned by architect Joe “Gentleman” Lee in 2001, the Hillcrest Golf & Country Club has been installed with heaping new sand traps, better tee boxes, new water features and new complexes and challenges on the rolling Tif-Eagle greens while maintaining its classically sophisticated look. Apart from the improved lay-out, this golf vacation destination has also built a brilliant drainage system making it one of the few courses in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that can continue operation even during angry rainy weather.

Receiving positive reviews with its discerning greens and developed pattern, the Hillcrest Golf & Country Club championship golf vacation course has a par 72 layout that measures 7076 from the Championship tees and 6677 from the blue tees. The 18th hole provides for a dramatic stopping point to every player’s round of golf with a bulkhead surrounding the Island Green. This well reputed golf course also markets family golf package and golf pro shop offers to suit the preference of every golf enthusiasts.

The Hillcrest Golf & Country Club Family Golf Program golf vacation package is known to be the foremost approach toward developing and transforming junior golfers into world class athletes. It offers affordable rates of which Juniors can enjoy complimentary Callaway Rental Clubs on, all year round, as well as avail of the daily free play with paying adults. Golfers can also purchase the latest apparel with Hillcrest logo at the Golf Pro Shop. Men and women can get the gifts from top names like Ashwort, EP Pro and Greg Norman. The course its really a one stop shop for a worthwhile game and momentous experience.

Plantation Preserve Golf Club

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Recognized by the City of Plantation for its Environmental Excellence, the Plantation Preserve Golf Club has also accomplished the brand as a”Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” from the Audubon International program. More than just famous for golf vacations, this golf course also sparked a new level of excitement in the heart of Broward County. 

Now, the City of Plantation has developed from its reputation as simply filled with warm hospitality and premier residential spots to a golf vacation destination with first-class facilities. Plantation Preserve Golf Club hosts a 211-acre nature portions with 7,000 yards playing for a par 72 championship golf course. The 29 acres everglades-inspired wetlands receive the wind from the 6,600 square foot club house and 55-acre line-like park terrain. The design is made to challenge both professional and amateurs alike with every hole featuring 5 teeing grounds granting players to put a strategy base on their own level of difficulty.

Created by famous golf trip architect Von Hagge, Smelek & Baril, Plantation Preserve Golf Club is designed with various runs for any golf enthusiasts to relish. A celebrated 9th hole island green is the signature play as well as the daring 14th hole split fairway and huge 15th and 17th greens. Golf carts are installed with a GPS system for a state of the art journey around the impressive putting greens and fairway bunkers during practices before perfecting that ambitious shot. And to add more uniqueness, this place also prides for being the only golf club in the area that showcases a Sea Dwarf Paspalum grass playing field sculpted throughout the course.

Victoria Hills Golf Club

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Labeled as the “Top 10 You Can Play in the United States”, the Victoria Hills Golf Club located in East of Orlando in DeLand, Florida is one of the most sought after golf trips in the world. Golf enthusiasts and amateurs go to this location to experience a combination of friendly and competitive golf tournament. The Victoria Hills Golf Club Academy hands out personalized instructions given by PGA Instructors like renowned Kerry Bower-Herr, the Director of Instruction at Victoria Hills Golf Club.

Preparing for a tournament is always classy with Victoria Hills Golf Club‘s sophisticated and innovative facilities. Part of the golf vacation package for training are several instructional equipments partnered with incomparable workshop methods. And they all come to suit the learning needs of every player. The three chipping greens and sizable putting greens allow players to take a golf shot from any direction of the golf course. Water features like lakes adorn the magnificent view and also stimulate tactical skills. The area is obviously made to capture the best strategy from every golf enthusiast.

Aside from on the field training, this golf course is also known for its creative Ron Garl golf architecture. On the Victoria Hills Golf Club is a challenge-driving par 72 championship course that is enclosed with thick oak hammocks and Augusta pines sculpted flawlessly from the tumbling sand hills. And if the scenery doesn’t add up just yet, there is the Mulligan’s Tavern & Grill, an award winning restaurant to keep any golf vacation event worth every penny.