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1552 Palm View Road
Sarasota, FL 34240
Toll Free: 888.881.3673
p: 941.371.3680
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Oak Ford Golf Club is part of an 850 acre nature preserve. Designed by world class Architect, Ron Garl, the three 9-hole courses wind through Live Oak, Myrtle, and Palm Forests skirting ponds, swamps and marshes.
The Oaks Course is chosen by many as the favorite of Oak Ford's three sets of nine holes. Ron Garl created a great mix of risk/reward holes on the Oaks layout. They say a great golf hole provides alternative strategies. This is true on Live Oaks where success is a birdie opportunity, but failure insures a bogey.
The Palms Course is unusual, because you play only one Par-3 and one Par-5 through nine holes. Water comes into play six times, with number 2 and number 9 requiring carries. Get ready for a journey into one of Florida's primeval lands. From hole number 3 through 7, you pass through hundreds of acres of natural preserve with no homes, and no roads - just nature. This is where golfers encounter deer, bobcats, and 10-foot gators.
The Myrtle Course brings water into play only 4 times. It starts with a Par-4 that can put you in a good or bad mood early. Requiring a tight tee shot, an even tighter play to a narrow green on the edge of water on the right, some say #1 must be played conservatively to get under way properly.
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