Seminole Golf Club

Donald Ross's 1929 course on Florida's Atlantic dunes, praised for its routing, angled greens and a different wind direction on nearly every hole.

E.F. Hutton developed the 140-acre club in 1929, and Donald Ross used a flat bowl between a 40-foot dune ridge to the west and the ocean dunes to the east. Fourteen holes touch one of the two ridges, so fairways climb to raised greens or drop from sandy peaks onto flatter ground. Ross also used flashed-face bunkering that was unusual for him.

The greens are the main defense. Many are angled and narrow toward the back, making rear hole locations very hard to reach, and greenside bunkers are deep. The routing on a roughly rectangular site turns the wind on almost every hole. A Coore and Crenshaw renovation that began in 2016 rebuilt more than 100 bunkers and brought back open sand between holes. Seminole has long been a club for business leaders, and Ben Hogan practiced here for years. It held its first televised event, a charity skins match, in 2020 and hosted the Walker Cup in 2021.

Holes to know

6

Par 4

Plays to an offset green guarded by bunkers on both sides of a long, narrow putting surface.

12

Par 4

A par 4 whose second shot must carry all the way to the green.

14

Par 5

A par 5 remembered for its uphill approach to the green.

Championships

• Walker Cup 2021

Design history

• 1950s: Dick Wilson regrassed greens and rebuilt bunkers
• 2016–18: Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw rebuilt bunkers, removed trees and restored sandy waste areas