Championship Style Golf Courses

  Within 60 Minute Drive of Fort Pierce

There are more than 3 dozen public and semi-private courses listed below that anyone can play just about anytime of the year. Tee-times are not a problem at most of these courses, in fact during the summer months and most of the off-season you probably don't need a formal tee-time at any of these courses except PGA Village and those golf courses that are in gated-communities. Your comments on any of these golf courses are welcome. If you've played any of these courses recently we'd like to hear about it. But we are mainly interested in your recent experiences (within the last 6 months) at these courses, not what happened 5 years ago. Just click on the green [Course Comments] button next to each course to read other golfers comments or to post your own comments. This is intended to be an interactive site so your comments are important.

It is not this web-site's intention to include 9-hole courses, executive par-3 courses or short courses that are under 6000 yards, or any course that is strictly private during any time of the year. Each entry below is an 18-hole course unless noted. I have personally played all but 4 of these courses.

The driving directions to these courses are geared toward people residing on South Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce, but anyone who is vaguely familiar with the area and Interstate 95 and hasn't yet been to a course can easily read between the lines enough to make the directions useful. Directions in red print are intended for the residents of South Hutchinson Island. Directions in blue print are meant for the general public.

  The Treasure Coast Golf Course List

Our neighbors in Brevard County and the northern part of Indian River County also have some fine courses. Public Courses that are more than 60 minutes driving time from Fort Pierce:

  The Space Coast Golf Course List

* Each of these courses offer "Daily Fee Golf"...pay one fee and play all day...at least during certain days of the week or certain times of the year, not necessarily every day of the year. For those 36 hole and 54 hole layouts, it's a great way to get alot of holes in for a little bit of money if you have the energy.

 * County or city-owned courses. Usually a few dollars cheaper for anyone to play. Also county or city residents usually are entitled to an additional discount if they can show proof of full-time residence.

A Few Courses That We Lost

The following golf courses were formerly open to the public and are now closed to the public or closed period, or they are about to be:

 

A suggestion:

The public vs private status of any of these courses can change as quickly as who owns them. Cutter Sound is a good example. It was an open-to-the-public course until about April of 2001 when it came under new ownership. We are now hearing that this course is having several holes completely revamped and it will reopen as a private club called Palm Cove. Dodger Pines is a course that has closed altogether because its real estate became too valuable to support a golf course that was losing money each year. And the old St. Lucie West Country Club....although still owned by the PGA, it became a private club (now called PGA Country Club) when the PGA opened the Dye Course about 2 miles away in PGA Village. So before you throw your clubs in the trunk of your car and drive alot of miles to play a course you've never been to before, it's wise to give the course a call and verify their status is still Public or Semi-Private. We try to keep abreast of the changes and include every open to the public golf course that we know about from Jupiter to Merritt Island on the above 2 lists. But new courses are being built all the time and it's difficult to keep up with all of them. The Links at Pointe West had apparently been open for about a year before we even knew about it. If you are aware of any course that is not on our list which you would like to see, please tell us about it. For every one of the 36+ golf courses listed above there are at least 2 that are private. If you have a particular course in mind that doesn't appear on the above lists you can be sure that it is either too short, significantly less than Par-70, less than 18 holes, too shabby, too private, or quite possibly we just don't know about it yet. If you are certain that we've missed one please tell us about it.

We'll be glad to include it here provided it is: