User Reviews
for Southern Dunes Golf & Country Club, USA
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...as a matter of fact...
Reviewed December 8, 2022
...he is one, rather a total work of art...
We have - in almost 30 years - played well over 100 courses in Florida - many very good ones - this one is in our list in the top 5.
A course that is one of the top 100 in Florida, easily in the middle, rightly so in our opinion.
We asked ourselves the question: "Who copied who, Jack Nicklaus Steve Smyers or vice versa?"
Immediately our rounds in Le Robinie (Italy) or Corkscrew (Florida) were both recalled from memory by Jack Nicklaus, but even more so the two World Woods (Florida) by Tom Fazio, also courses with an extremely large number of bunkers and corresponding earth movements, but this one here easily surpasses this.
The number of bunkers is impressive - 172 according to the information - the dimensions even more - they are real monsters in size and depth. In order to overcome this from the back tees, nothing goes below a carry of 200 meters, even from White it is still challenging - they are very easy to play.
The topography is almost mountainous for Florida - decent height differences on the holes. All par 3s are downhill...
It's a fair bit of work, with seven par 4s of more than 400 yards and two par 3s of more than 200 yards - back tees.
Excellent greens, very easy to play with an extreme ball speed - making it correspondingly difficult - Greetings from August...
It's a challenging course, and not just because of the green.
Steve Smyers has designed a few gems, no wonder he's a champion of the styles of HS Colt, AW Tillinhast, Donal Ross and Pete Dye - a friend and mentor. He also worked in Europe, helping to shape the Evian Golf Resort (F).
Not since Mackenzie or Tillinghast has a Course Architect used Bunker to make such a bold statement, express such flair, instill such fear - Ron Whitten Golf Digest.
The area was originally a citrus grove, was destroyed by a severe frost in 1989 and not rebuilt - what luck for us golfers!
It's Steve Smyer's masterpiece!!!
We don't often play a course several times on our travels, here we had to. "Once is never" is what our leader says...
From us there is only the predicate: Perfect!!! - for the staff as well.
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Artwork
Reviewed January 23, 2016
About 200 bunkers make life quite difficult. Here no golf course was built here a work of art was staged. Sand bunkers wherever you look or kicks. Really never come into play even in places. The little meadow between them was super clean and the tracks Top interesting. Sensational, heavy, fast greens. A truly noble plant.
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