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Golf in Florida
Orlando is a world class golf destination with over 100
top golf courses within a short drive of each other.
Many of the PGA and LPGA Tour professional’s make
Orlando home and with good reason. The facilities are
unrivalled in the world and with a fantastic climate
golf is pretty much playable all year round.
The area is also home to some of the best tournaments
with the men’s tour hosting two tournaments, the Arnold
Palmer Invitational and the Walt Disney World Classic,
while the women round off their season with the final
tournament of the year.
By Nigel G. Worrall
The sunny state of Florida with its lush green beautiful
landscaped golf courses is one of the hottest sporting
destinations in USA. Apart from its exotic tourist
spots, Florida draws thousands of visitors every year
simply because of the great golf experiences there are
to be had. Golf in Florida is simply outstanding and
here you can strike the balance between quality family
time as well as enjoying your favorite pastime.
One of the highlights of a golf trip to Florida is the
ability to rent a vacation villa or vacation home which
is not only convenient but also economical. The
facilities a vacation villa or home has to offer are
quite incomparable with those which hotels offer. In a
hotel you may feel confined to your room and other
members of your party may be spread out on different
floors with no common area for you all to have some
privacy; most vacation homes have private gardens and
swimming pools attached which allow you privacy along
with all the luxuries. Fully equipped kitchens complete
with a pantry with your favorite food items, gaming
rooms & LCD televisions with DVD libraries are just a
few of their features. There is no compromise on
services since most provide housekeeping, garden and
pool staff and even an on request driver. All of this is
available at great rates and often very much lower than
compared to the cost of staying at a hotel and eating
out on a daily basis. There are many options available
to you throughout Florida and some of the best are
located near golf clubs and provide a wholesome family
vacation while enabling you to play some great golf in
Florida!
Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Invitational
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course, Florida is home to some of the best PGA golf
tournaments and you will definitely be spoilt for choice
heading out for a round of golf in Florida. Since
professionals know the best, most of the golf courses in
Central Florida have been designed by them to provide
the golf enthusiast a true to life experience. Arnold
Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson have each designed
an 18-hole course at The Reunion Resort and Club of
Orlando for instance. The main golf course, designed by
Arnold Palmer, is simply breathtaking with a lavish
landscape of natural preserve woods, water bodies and
palm trees.
A
rare opportunity to play one of the world’s most highly
acclaimed layouts is available at Arnold Palmer’s Bay
Hill club and this is the setting for The Bay Hill
Invitational PGA tour event every year. This grand event
sees many of the world’s greatest players compete
against each other. Presented by MasterCard, the event
in 2010 will be held between March 25 and March 28 and
tickets are available online as well as at the Club.
http://www.arnoldpalmerinvitational.com/
Disney’s World of Golf
Walt Disney World Resorts in Orlando is another popular
golf facility and includes some of the finest PGA Tour
Courses amongst its 6 golfing facilities. With perfect
green lawns, hazardous obstacles and breathtaking
landscapes there is no dearth of Disney’s magic at any
of these courses. Even the golf carts here are up to
date with technologies such as GPS tracking, making golf
in Florida a truly modern day experience.
Eagle Pines is the popular Disney golf course designed
by Pete Dye sprawled across 6,772 yards and boasts of
many water hazards and Osprey Ridge, designed by Thomas
Fazio is a one of Florida’s finest golf course spread
across 7,101 yards.
Disney is also home to the
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic
which is hosted on the Palm and Magnolia
golf courses. The Palm is a great golf course for the
intermediate to advanced player while the Magnolia,
which derives its name from the various Magnolia trees
spotted across the course, is home to the final rounds
of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic
which will take place on Thursday Nov 8 – Sunday Nov 11,
2012. Tickets will be available online and also from
Walt Disney World Resorts.
While most of Disney’s courses are designed keeping
accomplished players in mind; families can still enjoy
their part of the action at Disney’s Oak Trail which is
a relaxing nine-hole course that every member of the
family can enjoy.
Florida has many varied options for enjoying a round of
golf and you’ll soon feel that golf in the Sunshine
State is not just a sport, but truly a passion.
It’s also the perfect place for a fabulous family
vacation or a golf trip with your pals.
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