Country Club of Florida

Built on 160 acres of the old Hunt Dairy Farm, the original golf course was designed by noted Chicago architect Robert Bruce Harris and a year and a half later, in April 1958, the Western Golf Association held its 56th Western Amateur Championship on the brand new course. The rolling terrain, unusual for South Florida, crosses through a prominent sand ridge that was a dune line on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean millions of years ago. Fast forward to 1987 when Arthur Hills was awarded the contract for remodeling the golf course. The 18-holes would maintain its creative and unique routing with both nines identical in their order of par fours, fives and threes. Almost 20 years later, in 2006, Lester George from Richmond, Virginia directed the second renovation of the golf course. Ponds and lakes were deepened and enlarged, sand traps were brought up to a total of eighty-three, and the same routing sequence remained.