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Text Box: 44 Iowa Golf FALL 2007 Discover a Different Side of Florida Golf Iowans heading to Florida for a winter break — and hungry for a golf experience beyond the state’s typical pancake flat, palm tree-lined courses — can find welcome variety from the Orlando area north to the Panhandle. The five golf properties detailed here showcase different sides of Florida, from Sandhills-style pines and terrain, to rolling, oak-draped fairways, to coastal beauties designed by some of the game’s top architects. For more information on the following courses and properties, visit www.stjoegolf.com. Lakeland-based Ron Garl designed the course, which sports some 50 feet of elevation change, thick strands of live oaks, Australian Sand Belt-like waste bunkering and hard-breaking Bermuda grass greens. Golfweek recently rated Victoria Hills the No. 9 public course in Florida. SouthWood Golf Club, Tallahassee Gene Bates and Fred Couples routed this course through wide corridors and created generous landing areas with a number of strategic pin positions for approach shots. The greens possess more break than they let on (especially near the cup). Five Georgia cracker box-style cottages near the course accommodate up to eight golfers overnight. SouthWood was an honorable mention for GOLF magazine’s vaunted “Top 10 You Can Play” list in 2003, a Golf Digest “Best New” course in 2004 and one of the “Top 10 Courses of the New Millennium” according to T+L Golf. Victoria Hills Golf Club, DeLand Sun-soaked, golf-rich Orlando has long been a popular destination for “have clubs will travel” types from Iowa. Those willing to go the extra mile — or 35 miles north in this case — to the quaint college town of DeLand will find one of the Sunshine State’s most decorated layouts. Camp Creek, Shark’s Tooth and the Origins Course, Panama City Beach Located just 10 miles apart, Camp Creek, Shark’s Tooth and the Origins Course at WaterSound collectively create one of west Florida’s great golf destinations. Recently rated “the best course of the new millennium” by Travel + Leisure Golf, Camp Creek is a Tom Fazio-designed masterpiece. It features a unique “dunescape” appearance, contoured fairways, large landing areas and spectacular vistas of the ethereal property. Designed by Greg Norman, Shark’s Tooth Golf Club was voted the second best new private course by Golf Digest upon opening in 2002. The course stretches to 7,209 yards from the back tees and features five fairways that border scenic Lake Powell, plus two holes that play toward the water. The Origins Course at WaterSound is a concept course designed by Davis Love III to make golf more fun, accessible and attractive to families, beginners and casual golfers. Tee times at Camp Creek and Shark’s Tooth are limited to guests of the WaterColorInn, and WaterColor and WaterSound luxury vacation rentals. The Origins Course is available for play by the general public. Visit www.watercolorinn.com or www.watercolorvacations.com for more information.