Clearwater Country Club

Florida Historic Golf Trail

3.0 of 5 starsReviewed November 8, 2022

This course is now 102 years old.

A journey back in time to the early days and the 1950s. The course is divided by the Rail Road - which you have to cross several times - people used to travel to the golf homeland by train - extra train stations were set up on some courses. The hat concert was heard long before we saw the heavy freight train.

The British golf architect Herbert Strong - he is also the inventor of the island of greens, he built his first in 1928 in Ponte Verda Beach - has created around thirty courses. He is also credited with inventing multi-level greens. He was also first secretary and treasurer of the PGA of America.

He made a hole-in-one on a par 4 at Sandwich 1903. He wasn't as successful as a player.

Perry Maxwell worked on this course from the 1940s - remodeling several greens. A course with no fairways bunkers. We think the water hazards were built by him.

We thought it was a simple thing on tee 1, this course only serves us 310 meters per hole, but it turned out to be even more demanding than we thought.

The course cannot hide its age, partly very small tea areas, level fairways, smaller but poisonous green bunkers and greens that are mostly below average - even small - have grown - really old, really nice.

The greens are excellent here, great to play and brutally fast.

The layout is knitted rather simply, the tracks are almost all straight - corresponds to the time.

Well maintained golf course, very nice staff.

The lot had to decide - three or four stars.

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