Country Club of Orlando

Located just northwest of downtown, the Country Club of Orlando occupies a rare, core-golf landscape within the city grid—166-plus acres of uninterrupted golfing ground without housing intrusions. Today’s course plays as a private, walkable par-72 with multiple teeing options (roughly 5,400–6,700 yards) and a playing character that emphasizes angles into pronounced, elevated greens. Practice assets include a modernized full range and a three-hole short course that were rebuilt alongside a comprehensive course project completed in 2017. Conditioning focuses on a fast-and-firm presentation suitable for Central Florida’s climate, with year-round play and no winter overseed. The club operates as a full-service city club—historic clubhouse, dining, pool, racket sports and fitness—but golf remains the core identity. The course itself presents tree-lined corridors shaped by a century of change, most recently rebuilt to evoke the look and playing questions associated (rightly or not) with Donald Ross’s work, while accommodating contemporary turf, drainage, and stormwater requirements. For visitors and researchers, it is important to understand that the routing and many greens seen today derive from a 2017 reconstruction by Ron Forse and Jim Nagle that intentionally drew on precedents from specific Ross courses, rather than a strict restoration of pre-war features.