Naples Grande Golf Club - Naples, Florida
Naples Grande Golf Club is certainly aptly named, if you drop that second "e." This golf course is grand, pure and simple. Rees Jones' old-fashioned parkland layout has those traits golfers used to love but which have largely disappeared from the modern course-design lexicon. Small greens that are treacherous if you miss long. Well-manicured fairways unmarred by looming condos.
Played from the back tees the golf course measures 7,078 yards, a little long for a traditional layout but no so long as to overwhelm the average golfer. Jones, like his renowned father, gives you a variety of risk/reward options, but usually gives you safe routes and bail-out areas for those of us who don't hit it like Tiger.
Naples Grande Golf Club
The traditional design at Naples Grande Golf Club means no homes, among other things.
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Rees Jones gave Naples Grand Golf Club a traditional parkland feel.
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Naples Grande Golf Club is dominated by a 30-acre lake.
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Naples Grande G.C. in Naples
Naples Grande Golf Club measures a little more than 7,000 yards from the back tees.
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Naples Grande G.C. in Naples, Florida
Naples Grande Golf Club earned a 4 1/2 star rating from Golf Digest.
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Naples Grande G.C. in Naples, Fla.
Water frequently comes into play in Rees Jones' Naples Grande Golf Club design.
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Naples Grande G.C. - hole 18
A view of Naples Grande Golf Club's 18th green.
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