You’d think with the kind of splendorous oceanfront property you can find in Hollywood, Florida, slapping a tiny white ball around in the grass would be on the low end of your to-do list. Well, actually, if you’d think that, then you just don’t get it. Golfing is big in Florida, and the exemplary array of golf courses in Hollywood, FL is all the rage. South Florida golf vacations? What have you been waiting for?
The seaside community and Fort Lauderdale suburb of Hollywood, Florida is a smart choice to stay for any South Florida golf getaway. The hotels are mighty fine (see our favorite pick below), you’ve got Hollywood Beach for those relaxing post-game afternoons, and the astonishing variety of local courses offers multiple options for every budget, style, difficulty and pace of play that you might look for.
Let’s take a few of our favorites:
The Club at Emerald Hills
4100 N. Hills Drive, Hollywood, FL, 33021
Phone: 954-961-4000
Website: http://www.theclubatemeraldhills.com/
Unquestionably one of the best golf courses in South Florida, The Club at Emerald Hills brings out the tours and top players just as surely as it brings out the locals. Whenever it’s not hosting the Doral and Honda Open qualifiers or a leg of the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur qualifiers, it hosts calm, satisfying days of golf for visitors just like you. The Club at Emerald Hills is best known for its challenge due to perilous water features and ideally contoured traps. A “Golf Digest Places to Play” course for 12 years straight.
Hollywood Beach Country Club & Golf Resort
1600 Johnson Street, Hollywood, FL, 33020
Phone: 954-927-1751
Website: http://hollywoodbeachgolf.com/golf.shtml
The 1924 Donald Ross design holds up as well today as it has for the past 86 years. At this affordable Fort Lauderdale public golf course, a precise level of play is required to avoid the limited but well-utilized water hazards. Concise greens also add to the challenge.
The course at Hollywood Beach Country Club is perhaps best known for being completely free of homes and other architecture on the course, which many golfers appreciate.
Hillcrest Golf & Country Club
4600 Hillcrest Drive, Hollywood, FL, 33021
Phone: 954-987-5000
Website: http://www.hillcrestgcc.com/index.php
Tired name aside*, the Hillcrest Golf & Country Club offers a modern resort-style experience for surprisingly little money. The brilliantly green championship course offers an engaging game from the first drive, but you’ll have to play through 17 holes to get to the much-ballyhooed signature. Hole 18 features Hillcrest’s infamous island green, loved and hated for its tricky approach. After the game, stop by the bar and watch others land their ball in the drink time and again.
Of course, that’s just three of hundreds of worthy courses, but it’s a great start to any South Florida golf vacation. The only thing left is deciding where to stay.
4000 South Ocean Drive
Hollywood, FL 33019
Phone: 954-454-4334
Website: http://www.cphollywoodbeach.com/
All of the suggestions we made above, and plenty more, are within six miles of the Crowne Plaza Hollywood Beach, always our first choice in Hollywood, Florida hotels. The Crowne Plaza is surely luxurious, but priced well below what you’d expect of a resort just across from the beach. Right now you can score rates as low as $99 a night. Beyond that, the hotel has lots to love: free Internet, a stunning Infinity Edge pool, sumptuous beds, awesome views, beach services, the list goes on.
Have fun golfing South Florida this summer.
*Seriously, just type in “Hillcrest Country Club” into a Google Search and before you even start the search, the suggested strings stretch from Cali to New England.
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