Orlando Golf News

Shingle Creek Golf Club, which is approaching its fifth anniversary in December, keeps getting better with age, particularly in the eyes of Golf Digest. Shingle Creek has received four stars from the Golf Digest guide as one of the best places to play 2008/2009. The extensive guide offers complete profiles of more than 4,000 of the best courses in North America, with comments and ratings from numerous avid golfers.

The profiles include such things as addresses, green fees, pars, yardage, USGA slope ratings, caddies, carts, lodging and practice ranges. 

Victoria Hills Golf Club , the award-winning Ron Garl design managed by Billy Casper Golf and located in Victoria Park, is ranked No. 10 among Florida’s best public-access courses by Golf Magazine in the September issue.

This marks the first time Golf Magazine, one of the nation’s most widely circulated golf publications, has ranked the best courses in each state. Victoria Hills is in elite company on the list of Florida’s finest, alongside several hosts to professional tour events and world famous resorts; the state boasts more than 700 public-access courses in all. The magazine’s rankings panel included editorial staff and well-traveled golf industry sources. 

CELEBRATION, Fla. --- Celebration Golf Club and the Golf Channel will host the national championship rounds of the 10th Annual Mutual of Omaha Drive, Chip & Putt Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 30 starting at 9 a.m.

Gene Garrote, vice president and general manager at Celebration Golf Club, said the Celebration tournament marks the climax of the Golf Channel’s 2008 Mutual of Omaha Drive, Chip & Putt Tournament season.

“The Drive, Chip & Putt Tournament visited 52 metropolitan cities throughout the United States since its start at the PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens on April 5,” Garrote said. “Celebration Golf Club will host the culmination of this national tour.”

New Putt and Pamper Package a Steal at $90 Per Person

CRYSTAL RIVER - Southern hospitality and a love of the game brought many well known golfers to Florida's Nature Coast 50 years ago. Five decades later, things haven't changed.

In 1955, construction began on a new golf course in Crystal River. Originally designed by course architect Mark Mahannah, it opened two years later under the name Paradise Country Club, and today operates under the name "The Championship Course" at the Plantation Golf Resort & Spa.

During the final round of the ADT Championship, scheduled for November 23 at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach a few lucky finalists will be shooting for a million dollar hole-in-one.

The National City Millon Dollar Shootout has announced four ways to qualify for the contest along with corresponding qualifying sites.

Golfers can qualify four different ways: Win a finalist spot at any of the six sites open to the public; win a finalist spot in an official designated charity golf tournament; qualify on the range during the ADT Championship or look for the enter-to-win sweepstakes display at any participating South Florida Publix beginning in mid-October. 

Over 100 individual PGA Professionals as well as community leaders attend the East Central Chapter’s Inaugural Award Ceremony and Banquet at Timacuan Golf and Country Club in Lake Mary, Florida. 

Honored were 11 individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the game of golf, the chapter, as well as the North Florida PGA Section.

OB Sports Golf Management was recently selected to manage Hunter's Creek Golf Club in Orlando, Florida. Conveniently located 20 minutes or less from the Walt Disney World Resort, Orange County Convention Center, and Orlando International Airport, Hunter’s Creek Golf Club is a popular Orlando golf venue featuring 18 holes of fun-filled golf designed by Lloyd Clifton.

Featuring five sets of tees ranging from 5,225 yards to a daunting 7,268 yards Hunter’s Creek is highlighted by strategically placed bunkering, expansive TifEagle greens and meandering fairways that carve through majestic, towering pines and around thirteen shimmering lakes. 

Celebration Golf Club launched a new summer promotion that promises half-priced golf for companies, corporations, associations and clubs that can bring 16 or more golfers to the championship 18-hole golf course.

Gene Garrote, vice president and general manager of Celebration Golf Club, said golfing groups comprise an important market for the golf club.

“Hotels, attractions, restaurants and area corporations and companies that reward their executives or sales staffs with a day of golf are an important market segment for us and we’re treating them special,” said Garrote. 

Dave Brewer, Inc., which ranks as one of Central Florida’s most active builders of luxury custom homes valued at more than $1 million, reports that sales so far this year are only off by 4 percent from 2007.

Matt Trask, business director at Dave Brewer, Inc., said the homebuilder is on track to close on sales of 15 luxury homes for revenues of more than $27 million before the end of this year.

Since Jan. 1, Dave Brewer, Inc. has had 17 new homes under construction at an average sales price of $1.5 million.