Tiger Point Golf & Country Club is an excellent design by hometown hero architect Jerry Pate that has wide, expansive views of Santa Rosa Sound. There are quite a few multi-break putts to deal with at Tiger Point, and some of the up-and-downs are challenging, to say the least.
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If it's been a while since you've played Perdido Bay Golf Club - say seven or eight years - you might want to re-visit. A 2000 renovation has given it a a wide-open, almost links-like feel, with small lakes and ponds scattered around the grounds, Tim McDonald writes.
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Course architect Bill Bergin came around in 2000 and revamped Pensacola's Perdido Bay Golf Club. Before Bergin got a hold of it, the course was known as a heavily treed, parkland track. After Bergin and his bulldozers finished, though, it looked completely different. Perdido now sports a wide-open look with almost a links-like feel.
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Thanks in part to a total renovation by designer Bobby Weed, The Deltona Club is a recommended stop off Interstate-4 on your way to or from Orlando. The change that adds the most obvious character is the addition of the ubiquitous waste areas. Don't call them bunkers. There aren't any bunkers on the course, just the waste areas - or "sand blowouts" as Head Professional Nathan Wilson calls them.
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Designer Bobby Weed totally re-did the Deltona Club, formerly known as the Deltona Hills Golf and Country Club, adding new grass to tees, fairways and greens and installing artful waste areas. The changes have made Deltona Club one of the better courses in the area, National Golf Editor Tim McDonald writes.
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The Diplomat Country Club in Hallandale, Fla. is a classic South Florida golf course design from 1957 that was revamped in 2000 by local favorite Joe Lee. It features many ponds, 76 bunkers and over 3,000 palm and coconut trees.
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