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Destin golf
courses along the Emerald Coast offer impeccable weather coupled with
lush natural surroundings and championship tees.
The gold courses in the Destin -Fort Walton Beach - Okaloosa Island area
are among the most challenging in the country. Set in the beautiful woods
and wetlands, these links provide spectacular scenery and that extra impetus
to play better.
These
popular courses are reasonably priced, too. So grab your bag, your shoes
and your glove and head for the fairways. It’s tee time on the Emerald
Coast!
One example
of premiere Destin golf courses is Regatta Bay’s 6,829-yard, par
72, championship golf course that was designed by Robert C. Walker, who
was the former lead architect for Arnold Palmer. This challenging course
is set among breathtaking nature preserves, and provides an extraordinary
golfing experience for players of all levels.
In fact,
readers from Florida Know Best: Florida Golf News magazine voted the course
“the #1 Favorite Golf Course in Northwest Florida” for four
years and readers of Emerald Coast magazine Best of Emerald Coast two
years. Additionally, Golf Digest ranked the course among its “Top
200 Places to Play in North America,” as well as one of the “Top
15” courses in Florida.
Regatta Bay
now features the most advanced Global Positioning System, (GPS), offered
by Parview System. The new GPS provides many new features to golfers including:
enabling them to find their exact yardage, and the length of their drive.
Visit our Destin Gold Courses
Directory for a partial listing of the many courses located in the
Destin area.
It is told
that Pete Dye's architectural career began in typical Barney Fife fashion.
As chairman of the country club's greens committee, he sprayed a chemical
that turned the entire course purple, the last color before agronomic
death. But Pete Dye had found his calling. Like his father, he loved the
manicured land. He was offered a chance to design a course at the El Dorado
Country Club near Indianapolis. The rest is history.
Another designer, Tom Fazio feels about cartpaths the way cops feel about
drunken knife wielders. "They're the biggest negative in this business.
People have nightmares about going down a dark tunnel to die? I have nightmares
about going down a cartpath. You have to take them out of play and out
of sight. If an artist was painting a hole, what would you tell him not
to put in? A stupid, long path, right? How do you create 'wow' effect
on the tee? Not with 1,200 feet of concrete. That's total failure on our
part. When I started my career, there were no carts. But now we have to
have 'em."
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