MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB

One of the oldest courses in Miami, established in the 1920s, Miami Shores Country Club is an 18-hole course, featuring push-up greens common to older designs. The course plays 5,800 yards from the ladies’ tees and 6,600 yards from the professional tees.

Tree-lined fairways meander through the residential areas of Miami Shores and cross Biscayne Canal at several points.

Miami Shores Country Club features a lighted driving range and complete pro shop and restaurant area. Both the Barry men’s and women’s golf teams use the course extensively because of its proximity to the university campus.

WESTVIEW COUNTRY CLUB

Historic Westview holds the respected title as one of Miami’s oldest and most exclusive country clubs. With rolling fairways, elevated tee boxes and greens, the 6,786-yard championship golf course is one of the most challenging and imaginative layouts in South Florida. Water comes into play on 13 holes, so bring your scuba gear. One of the only courses to offer tif-eagle greens, this allows for a smooth, fast putting surface all year long. Westview brings a “northern appeal” to golf in South Florida. Often regarded as one of Miami’s “Best Kept Secrets”, Westview offers an incredible challenge.

During the 1920’s, Gene Sarazen, one of golf’s most famous legends and the person responsible for design of the sand wedge, was the club’s first head professional. Since Sarazen, the likes of Bruce Fleisher, Senior PGA Tour Star, and Pam Elders, one of Golf Digest’s Top 50 Female instructors have occupied the Head Golf Professional title.

INTERNATIONAL LINKS-MIAMI; MELRESSE GOLF COURSE

The finest new course in South Florida, completely redesigned, it reopened October 1997 at a cost of $3.9 million. A course with 97 bunkers, four waste bunkers and six acres of water. It’s USGA-approved greens are far from flat. It was Tiger Woods’ first South Florida appearance, giving a clinic to the youth of Miami. It has fairways with rolling hills and bunkers of pure white sand. It’s condition is second to none.

Rolling northern style fairways predominate the gorgeous 135 acre golf course. Large undulating greens average 6500 square feet, and are planted with certified tift dwarf grass. The greens are considered to be among the best putting surfaces in Florida.

DON SHULA’S GOLF CLUB

You can start with the Hall of Fame legend himself, Coach Shula, or go to the other hall of fame greats from almost any walk of life, and what you will have is one of the most historic golf courses in the Southeast. Shula’s Golf Course has played host to some of the most famous legends in America ranging from Joe DiMaggio, Shirley Povich, Stan Musial, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, and Michael Jordan.

Don Shula’s Golf Course was designed in 1962 by architect Bill Watts from Florida’s famous first family, the Grahams. It was designed in the traditional format of large greens for long holes and smaller greens for shorter holes. The course was originally planted with thousands of trees, located on what is now the ninth fairway. Today only two of the original trees still stand, thanks to Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed over 500 trees.

LA GORCE GOLF CLUB

The famous La Gorce Golf Course was salvaged from the sea in 1923, and upon its completion in 1927 was named after a great sportsman, John Oliver La Gorce.
 
Today, after being salvaged from a subdivision fate in 1945 by the golf-minded Miamians who put up a cool $1 million for the famous course, it stands out as one of the greatest courses in all of Florida. The par 71 course plays 6458 from the tournament tees. Famed golf architect Robert Trent Jones did a redesign of the course in the late 1960s, adding three water holes and reducing the traps from 80 to 72.