Copperhead golf course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor
The beauty - or curse - of the Copperhead golf course at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club near Tampa, Florida is that no matter which tees you choose, you're going to have your work cut out for you.
That's mainly because the Copperhead, the most highly acclaimed of the four golf courses here at the Palm Harbor resort, puts more of a premium than most courses on shot making after you hit your drive.
"If I could only play one course the rest of my life, it would be Copperhead," Curtis Strange has said. "It has that much character."
Copperhead is beautifully laid-out, and the routing unfolds gracefully through terrain that might make you think of Carolina golf, with elevated tees and greens; at one point the course, so close to the Gulf of Mexico, reaches 70 feet, unheard of in this part of a relatively flat state.
Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort: 3rd hole
A view of the third hole at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort: 5th hole
No. 5 at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor is uphill.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
No. 8 at Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort
No. 8 at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor is a 235-yard par 3 from the back tees.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
No. 10 at Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort
No. 10 at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor is a tree-lined par 4.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
No. 12 at Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort
No. 12 at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor has water that intrudes into the right fairway.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort
The Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club is in Palm Harbor.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com
No. 15 at Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort
No. 15 at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor is a 212-yard par-3 from the back tees.
Tim McDonald/GolfPublisher.com