GOLF IN FLORIDA
Florida offers the golfing enthusiast over 1,100 golf courses and clubs throughout the state. From the Panhandle to the tip of the Florida Keys, golf is abundant. They range from public to private, resort to exclusive restricted access enclaves, expensive to affordable. Some courses are challenging and some are just fun to play. If you love golf, YOU’LL LOVE FLORIDA! For 12 months of the year, the golfing enthusiast will find the golf courses in South Florida open and challenging.
5 miles away from our villa,
ChampionsGate Golf Resort is a Central Florida golf masterpiece – when on the golf course it seems that you are miles away from civilization, and yet the Orlando Golf Resort is less than 15 minutes from Walt Disney World. Together, the National and International golf courses bring a unique combination to Orlando Golf. Two totally different Greg Norman signature designs married with Florida’s natural habitat, with every hole featuring beautiful natural vistas. With its 36 holes of championship golf, its Orlando’s best golf outing and tournament venue. Book your Orlando tee times online, save time, and get the best selection of discounted rates on both of ChampionsGate’s golf courses.
5 miles from our Villa, Providence Golf Club is destined to become a popular Central Florida golf destination. Located just outside of Orlando in Davenport Florida, this technically challenging and esthetically pleasing, Providence Golf Club is a masterpiece. The 18-hole championship course, designed by renowned architect Mike Dasher, will test your game and soothe your senses as it winds its way through land featuring fresh water creeks, ancient hardwoods and wetlands. It is not unusual to get a glimpse of otters, deer or a wild turkey during your round. While serving as a haven of serenity for residents and local golfers, Providence also provides a refreshing getaway for tourists, with a location only 15 minutes from world-class theme parks, 30 minutes from Orlando, 45 minutes from Tampa and only 20 minutes from Kissimmee, Florida. Dasher has an affection for European style golf courses, and it is evident on some of his unique, undulated greens at Providence. Reviews of the new facility indicate he has surpassed his objective. In addition to providing a challenging and scenic course, Providence’s professional staff has over 45 years of experience in the golf industry and received numerous awards and recognitions by the PGA and LPGA.
10 miles away from our villa, Celebration has been rated 4 1/2 Stars in Golf Digest’s Best Places to Play since 2004 and ranked in the Top 25 Public Courses by Golf World magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award. It also has received the Award of Excellence, Top 10 Golf Course by GolfOrlandoFlorida.com and is Rated the #1 Golf Event Venue in Central Florida by Golf Event Planners. Celebration Golf Club is the award-winning centerpiece of the highly acclaimed master planned town of Celebration, featured in dozens of leisure travel and golf publications worldwide. The course in one of only three in the world co-designed by Robert Trent Jones, The Father of American Golf Architecture, and his son, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. It is the only course in Central Florida to receive special recognition for Standards of Service, Course Conditioning and Pace of Play. Built on scenic natural wetlands, the course provides players with a genuine, uncontrived, Florida golf experience. It features an abundance of native wildlife and is unobtrusively bordered by early 1900’s style estate homes, giving it the feel of a private country club in a small-town America during that period. It may be difficult to find any real guarantees in life, but the challenge ends when you reserve your tournament or golf outing with us. Here, you and your guests will experience the perfect golf event. Guaranteed. We can say this because we’ve hosted more than 3,500 successful tournaments making us Central Florida’s #1 tournament venue. It’s our attention to detail that sets us apart from the rest. Celebration Golf Club has built a national reputation as the place to hold your golf event when in Central Florida. Our location is where your destination begins. We’re very close to Walt Disney World, and part of the charming ambiance found in Disney’s Town of Celebration. Our goal is simple: we’re dedicated to achieving excellence in each golf event we host. Whether it’s a day of “no-frills” fun golf, a convention/corporate tournament, or an officially sanctioned 54-hole national championship – we have one single focus in mind—making your event the very best.