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 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.