Golf is booming across the state of Florida, where dozens of highly anticipated openings are bringing some of the most interesting courses in the country. The National Golf Foundation counted 28 brand-new courses in Florida from 2023 through 2025, and at least 23 more were in development as of early this year, more new golf than anywhere else in the country.
From Gil Hanse’s orange-grove club in Venus to David McLay Kidd’s Bone Valley at Streamsong and Tom Doak’s 4,000-acre Old Shores in the Panhandle, new courses keep landing across the state.
With at least ten more highly anticipated openings on the way, in the state named America's top golf destination for travel in 2025, the next wave is led by David McLay Kidd's Bone Valley at Streamsong, already in limited preview play ahead of a January 2027 opening and carved across reclaimed dunes and ridgelines in Bowling Green as the resort's fifth course. Kidd, the architect behind Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley, is working on former phosphate land in the region's famed Bone Valley fossil beds, and preview play opened on October 30 ahead of a January 26 grand opening. The 18-hole layout will join Streamsong's celebrated collection by Coore & Crenshaw, Tom Doak and Gil Hanse, alongside new lakeside Golf Cabins built for groups.
In Myakka City, two miles of river frontage run along the 1,100 acres of Miakka Golf Club, an invitation-only club designed by Dana Fry and Jason Straka with PGA Championship winner Paul Azinger that is now close to opening. Founded by Florida entrepreneur Steve Herrig, the course will stretch to 7,700 yards over rolling terrain rare in Florida golf, bringing the Australian Sandbelt style of Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath to the banks of the Myakka River. The club shares ownership with the neighboring TerraNova Equestrian Center, its first nine has already been finished, and a 50,000-square-foot clubhouse is planned to anchor it all.
Another big opening was Dutchman's Pipe, West Palm Beach's first new private golf club in 25 years, an ultra-private, Nicklaus-designed club with exclusive new villas arriving soon. Witkoff and Access Industries transformed the former Banyan Cay grounds into a Jack Nicklaus Signature course that stretches more than 7,280 yards, with no tee times. The invitation-only club made its grand debut in March 2025 and layers on a tour-level practice range, a two-acre short-game area, a racquet club, a spa, and multiple dining venues, all around an 18,000-square-foot clubhouse.
Just west of Dutchman's, NOKOSI Golf Club, a private Nicklaus Family club, is opening later this year with a Nicklaus Design course rising around a Spina O'Rourke + Partners-designed facility. Jack Nicklaus is personally rebuilding the 153-acre former Sherbrooke Golf & Country Club off Lyons Road in Lantana, his first design since reacquiring his namesake company. It is the first project from a new development group led by Gary Nicklaus and the family alongside TWG Global, and plans call for a clubhouse with a signature restaurant and a health, wellness, and longevity center, all for a deliberately limited, invitation-only membership.
Love Golf Design has two of Palm Beach County's next openings, starting with Triple Stick Golf Club, a members-only enclave at Bay Hill Estates in Palm Beach Gardens following the routing of the former Estates Course. Minutes from the main resort at PGA National, the par-70 course will keep the existing landform and lakes intact while adding railroad tie bulkheads, flat-bottomed bunkers framed by native grasses, and a state-of-the-art practice area. The name nods to Davis Love III's childhood nickname, Tripp, and to Crooked Stick, the Indiana course by Pete and Alice Dye, and a clubhouse by Peacock + Lewis will follow the course.
The firm is also reimagining the second course at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach as the first true American links course in the area, with both opening this fall. Davis Love III, Mark Love and Scot Sherman are rerouting holes and building all-new greens, tees and bunkers on the club's Links course, taking inspiration from the American links classics of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. The private club is rebuilding its Racquets and Aquatics Center as well, with Har-Tru and pickleball courts, a padel court, a 25-meter pool and an indoor-outdoor dining venue.
Farther up the county, Jupiter Country Club is in the middle of a complete makeover, with Agustín Pizá reimagining all 18 holes for Invited Clubs and reshaped greens, diagonal bunkering and expanded lakes due by November 2027. Work on the first nine began in March 2026 and the second nine will follow next year, with select lakes repositioned to frame the greens and heighten the drama of key holes. The goal, Pizá said, is "a more strategic, visually compelling and sustainable experience."
Out in the world's equestrian capital, land that was once home to the Palm Beach Polo & Country Club is being remade into The Wellington, a 400-acre private residential club community set to open in 2028 with 253 luxury residences and an 18-hole championship course by David McLay Kidd. Kidd's sweeping, links-style layout will take shape across 136 acres, with course construction expected to start in March 2027. Homes will range from estate homesites and equestrian villas to townhomes, condos and farms, with architecture by Workshop/APD, Morris Adjmi Architects and Squire & Partners, and plans also call for a spa, pools, racquet sports and a kids' club.
Head inland to Highlands County and you reach what Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner have called, the ocean aside, the best natural site for golf they can think of in Florida, a 1,200-acre spread of sandy ridges and working orange groves in Venus, near Lake Placid, that is now home to High Grove Golf Club. Full play began in January 2026 on a routing built around a 50-foot ridge of pure sand, which gives the par-5 6th and the uphill, 120-yard 9th their drama before the back nine winds through mature orange groves. Ryan Hanks, Colin Sheehan and Bert Guy founded the private club, planned as a 36-hole destination limited to 150 members, around a clubhouse by Thomas & Denzinger Architects.
The same duo faced the opposite problem in North Naples, where the 174 acres that became Kinsale Golf Club were dead flat and had no natural features to work with, so they looked to C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor, the Golden Age masters of flat-site golf. Hanse and Wagner capped the playing corridors in sand to get firm, fast, linksy conditions on a windy site close to the Gulf, then built the course around template holes, sunken flat-bottomed bunkers and a long Biarritz par 3. Founded by Anthony Soave of Soave Enterprises, the private club opened in November 2024 and is limited to 250 members, each paying a reported $425,000 to join.
Back on the Atlantic side, Apogee Golf Club has grown in about two years from a construction site into a private 54-hole retreat in Hobe Sound, founded by Michael Pascucci, the developer behind Sebonack and The Bear's Club, and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. Hanse and Wagner opened the first course in late 2023, Tommy Fazio and former USGA chief Mike Davis followed with the second, and Kyle Phillips completed the trio with Summit, his first new build in the United States, which returns to the clubhouse after 12 holes so members can play six, 12 or 18. A fourth course has been growing in as well, a 12-hole Fazio design made up entirely of short par 4s, and across about 1,200 acres the club remains built purely for golf, with no homes for sale and villas reserved for members.
North of Tampa, the old World Woods in Brooksville had fallen on hard times when Cabot bought the property and all but rebuilt Tom Fazio's celebrated Pine Barrens, reopening the land as Cabot Citrus Farms. Kyle Franz and Mike Nuzzo are behind the four courses that took its place, with Karoo and Roost at 18 holes each, The Squeeze at 10 and The Wedge, an 11-hole par 3, alongside a two-acre putting course and a double-ended TrackMan range. The resort now packs 57 holes across 1,200 acres, with cottages, homesites and more amenities still arriving.
Witkoff and PPG Development, the team behind Dutchman's Pipe, had already brought private golf back to the old Diplomat grounds in Hallandale Beach with Shell Bay, a club that came to market at a reported $1 million to join. Greg Norman's 7,254-yard championship course opened in October 2023 on 150 acres between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, joined by a 12-acre practice facility and a nine-hole par 3 with punchbowl, Redan and double-plateau greens. A 60-key Auberge-managed resort and 108 residences designed by Kobi Karp are planned for 2027.
Another exciting opening came way up in the Panhandle, where Davis Love III, his brother Mark and longtime associate Scot Sherman delivered The Third at Watersound Club in Panama City Beach in the spring of 2025 on a nearly flat site with no houses in the way. All that room let Love Golf Design lay out a meandering routing that plays from 4,900 yards to more than 7,600 across about 300 acres just north of Shark's Tooth, with a reverse-Redan green at the par-3 3rd and a par-5 5th that stretches past 600 yards from the tips. The course gives Watersound Club a full 54 holes alongside designs by Tom Fazio and Greg Norman, and while the club is private, guests of Camp Creek Inn can play. Its name honors both Davis Love III and its place as third in the collection.
Jim Furyk made more than 50 site visits to Port St. Lucie while building his first official course design, and the result, Glynlea Country Club, opened in the fall of 2025 at the heart of the planned 3,000-home Wylder community. The 2003 U.S. Open champion and Mike Beebe drew a par 72 routed around the site's natural wetlands, wide enough to handle the wind, with plenty of angles into the greens and few forced carries. The club campus will add dining, a wellness and fitness center, a resort-style pool, pickleball and tennis courts, and a Toptracer Aqua Range.
Over in Estero, the Hoffmann Family of Companies bought the old Corkscrew Golf Club in 2022 and is now starting over, with Phillips, fresh off Apogee, redesigning it as Pandion Club, a private track on sand-based soil set to open in late 2027 among native grasses and wetlands. Named for the osprey, the golf-only club will be limited to around 280 members under the motto "Pure. Golf." Construction began this past summer on a par-71, 7,220-yard course that takes its cues from the heathland tradition of Harry Colt and Tom Simpson, and MHK Architecture will design a Lowcountry-style clubhouse.
The boom is reaching public golf in Naples too, at The Gate Golf Club, a non-profit built with Collier County and First Tee on the former Golden Gate Country Club, where a new nine-hole course by Peter Jacobsen and Jim Hardy is set to open in December 2026. The county bought the property in 2019 to protect public golf on the site, and the project broke ground in February 2025 under a non-profit established by Arthrex founder Reinhold Schmieding. The par-35 layout will play up to 3,346 yards, joined by a 30-bay TrackMan range, a 48,500-square-foot, 18-hole putting course, a new home for First Tee and the 175-seat Oakwood Grill.
The biggest of them all is Old Shores in Vernon, where Michael Keiser Jr. is building a 4,000-plus-acre public golf resort in the Panhandle. It is the newest destination from Dream Golf, the company behind Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley, set on longleaf pine savanna and spring-fed rivers with about 40 feet of elevation change and a series of natural sinks that Tom Doak has called unlike anything he has seen on a golf course.
Tom Doak's first course is under construction; a second 18 by Brian Schneider will follow, along with a 12-hole precision course, a nine-hole layout and a par 3. Preview play is planned for late 2026, and the grand opening is expected in fall 2027.