Amelia River Golf Club in Fernandina Beach, Florida

Amelia River Golf Club is a very nice addition to the Amelia Island Plantation's other golf courses. There are no homes or resort buildings to intrude on the natural surroundings: You'll see alligators sunning themselves, wading birds and maybe even a rattlesnake or two.

Alligator Creek runs through the mostly flat terrain, popping up here and there as a running obstacle. When the wind whips across its open expanse, those long par 5s into the wind can be nightmarish. There's a good mix of holes, and most of the fairways are wide and forgiving.

It's a well-designed Tom Jackson design with Tif Eagle greens, and relatively large greens and some semi-rolling fairways.