This is one of the 2 newest golf courses on this website, built about the same time as Saint James. I played this course for the first time on 6/28/02 for $25 for 18 with a cart. That is a weekday/summertime price. On weekends in summer it is $30 to tee off before noon, $25 on weekends after noon. (This is the price for everyone - not a coupon deal). I agree with Trevor's comments below about this not really being a Scottish links style course. There is water on nearly every hole, however many of the ponds are just scenery and don't come into play. It really is more of a typical FL course. I personally would liken it most to Cobblestone because of the abundance of water on the course. So much water that on a hot June day I wished I'd had a small boat to cool off with. When I say Cobblestone I mean Cobblestone without the pinetrees. When I played in late June 2002 the entire area had been saturated with over a foot of rain during 2 of the previous 3 weeks. I purposely avoided playing Pointe West for a while because I was aware that many of the courses from Vero on up north were saturated. On the day that I played it was cart-path only and I can understand why because it was mushy in many places. About the same kind of watery experience I had playing The Habitat a year earlier after some heavy rains. Nearly every hole had had its fairways aerified. There were sod-plugs laying everywhere. That's not a knock on this course. It's a necessary maintenance that has to be done to all Florida courses usually June or July. Almost all of the greens also had been recently aerified. The holes left behind along with the sand that they sprinkle on the greens left them very bumpy and difficult to putt. There is a significant amount of undulation in almost every fairway on this course. But I must say that the greens are quite level. Under more optimal conditions I'm sure these greens are a joy to putt on. Trevor mentions the gimmicky par-4's. There's also two very weird par-5's on the back nine. First #10 which is a dramatic dog-leg left par-5 around/over a fairly large lake reminiscent of Cobblestone's #18. Then there's #16 which is a straight-ahead par-5 with 2 big trees right in the middle of the fairway that come into play from most of the tees. Then there's a second cluster of perhaps a dozen or more Spanish Moss covered trees 100 yards from the green that you want to be either beyond or aside of after your second shot. These are also situated right in the middle of the fairway. To me the toughest hole has to be #12, a long dogleg left par-4 around a lake. Just trying to aim your drive at the proper angle to carry the lake and make the narrow fairway is tough enough. Fade it just a tad and you can kiss a green in regulation goodbye because of an extra long 2nd shot. Hook your drive just a tad and you are almost certainly in the water. This course has 5 sets of tees measuring from 7002 yards down to 5161 yards for the ladies. It is a semi-private course that anyone can play and they also offer "daily-fee" golf if you wish to play more than 18 holes.

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I played this course in Novemeber, they had a coupon in the Vero paper for something in the mid $20's (I replayed for another $15 or so). The course bills itself as a links course, and while a few holes have a bit of a links feel, I would really describe it as a typical FL course. It was in very nice shape, quite a bit of water, and not too busy when I played. It has a couple of "gimicky" par fours on it, including the 18th - a very short par 4 that has a lake to the right of the green and a creek diaganolly crossing the fairway in front of the green. The green is driveable, though it is clearly not a high percentage shot. The carts have a GPS system with tips on how to play each hole, some of the tips are misleading in my opinion. (On the 7th hole the tip is to hit it at a tree down the left side of the fairway - I did and found by ball in the lake). I'd recommend the course, though it is a tad on the expensive side without a coupon.

 

Again in 2003 this course along with Sandridge and The Fairwinds was chosen to host the Florida State High School Championships, boys and girls.

 

I played here with my PGA Golfpass for a very low $15 in July 2003. The PGA Golfpass allows up to 6 plays at this course for that price, but one was enough for me. My biggest observation was how much the course seemed to deteriorate in the past year. Bad water drainage marks on many of the fairways and the greens were bumby, burned out and nothing to brag about. Have only played here twice and the first time I thought it might be destined to become a great course. Now I am having my doubts. I hope they can turn it around.