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.