Okay, I'm reviving this thread because it is getting cold in a lot of places in the country and many will be looking to want to go somewhere warm.
I'm talking to you, my native Floridians. Got a new course you want to brag on? Some upgrades to existing courses we need to hear about?
I'll start with my area of expertise: south Florida. Yes, it is still 82 degrees at 11 pm this time of year. I must tell you about our newest course: Silent Lake DGC. It is a pro par 58 with good but fair holes and two tees to almost every hole. Once the local club gets pads and signs put in look for this course to join the rank and file of good, solid courses here in Broward county.
Silent Lake, at Quiet Waters Park, is just minutes from Tradewinds Park, which, if everything goes well here in dry season, should have a second course taking shape and launching sometime in 2019. I don't want to speculate too much here yet without talking to the board members of the club I belong to, but stay tuned, I should know more soon.
Sometime in 2019 the Palm Beach club will put the final touches on resurrecting a course in Delray Beach, which is ten minutes from Silent Lake and less than 30 minutes from the Palm Beach courses. When they are finished I will get up there and have a look for myself as this course/park, on the edge of the Everglades, took a nasty blow from Hurricane Irma in 2017.
The course in Martin county had its first tournament, an unsanctioned singles event, and I hear that went well. As far as further up the Treasure coast, Lakewood Park is one of their newer courses, and it is a fun play. From the long pads it is a challenging layout, par 59 or 60 I believe, and is mere minutes from I-95 in Fort Pierce.
I'm hoping to hit some more courses here on the SE FL coast this winter, and perhaps make a trip to the Gulf Coast to play a few more.