Errol Estate Country Club is a sparkling golf club replete with character, diversity and history. Nothing pretentious, nothing ostentatious, just a relaxed, natural charm that ensures a superb country club golfing experience.

Joe Lee designed Errol Estate's original 27 golf holes, which opened in early 1973. The entire course dips and rolls around innumerable vistas, impressive landscaping and towering native pine and oak trees. The fairways are lush, the greens exacting, with dramatic views.

The Lake Course is the longest, though easiest, with strategically placed vegetation. These nine holes are more open and feature bunkers, wide fairways and wind. The finishing three holes offer the best of the course. 

The 7th is a par-4 dogleg left that angles 436 yards into trouble. (Double Click on score cards to view.) It is handicapped one (1) because of its insistence on the accuracy of your drive - it must go down the middle at the elbow to avoid the trees and bunkers lurking there, or power it over the left-side bunker and enjoy the roll. Then a possible downhill lie awaits, leading into a narrow cavern of trees to an elevated green with two fronting bunkers, a miserable drop-off in the back and a ridge in the center. (Photo is Number 1 on Lake Course.  Double-click to view.)

The 8th is a perilous par-3 that requires a 197-yard poke through overhanging trees to an elevated target green adorned by three bunkers and a steep slope in the back.

Finish at the par-4 9th with 426 yards of uphill aggravation, ameliorated momentarily by a wide fairway bordered by encroaching trees and bunkers on both sides from 200-yards out. Thus, the approach requires a straight shot to get you to the green, another bunker - smothered, elevated, back-drop-off, back-to-front sloping marvel. It's handicapped two (2).

The Grove Course is the toughest nine -- or so the golfers say -- and the trickiest of the entire 27 holes at Errol Estate because of the troublesome combination of trees, hills and narrow fairways.  Two favorites (handicapped 2 and 1) are the 2nd  and 8th holes.

The 395-yard par-4 2nd hole doglegs right.  The elbow creases only 185 yards out, but is replete with difficulty:  a wide marsh on the inside and two bunkers and trees on the left.  If you can drive 250 yards and miss a palm tree on the right side, the approach to the narrow green is more encouraging.  The green has a bunker sprawling on the left, one behind and a drop-off on the right into the marsh.  It slopes back-to-front.  It's work!

Reputed to be the most irksome hole on the course, this 445-yard 8th is -- get ready -- a double dogleg downhill past encroaching trees with bunkers, marsh,  and undulations to contend with (or avoid).  A solid and accurate 250-yard drive puts you past the tree-clusters and over the ridge and to the right of the two bunkers.  Hey,  what's the big deal?  The approach must carry the marsh to hit a tiny flat teardrop of a  green guarded by trees on the left, a bunker at the back right and the ubiquitous marsh on the right.

This is a day of golf to fondly recall those marvelous shots where you conquered the impossible!

The Highland Course is our scenic course, a sampling of fun begins on the first three holes, a par-4, 5 and 3. The mild dogleg right 1st hole is a par-4, 398-yard beauty from every direction you play it. The tiered, stepped-up tee boxes preside

over a tree-lined fairway that dips downhill and slopes right to left all the way up. It begins ascending at the landing area which rests at the elbow, to the right of which are two bunkers (and out-of-bounds). From the 150-yard marker in, thick trees horseshoe around the fairway and green The uphill approach shot goes to an elevated, two-tiered green sloping to the front with bunkers on both sides. It's handicapped one (1). Look back before you leave to see a truly lovely, calming, vernal vista of Spanish moss-draped oaks, clusters of palms and rolling knolls. 

The second hole is a 518-yard par-5, handicapped three (3), dogleg left featuring more wall-to-wall trees and quite a challenge. (Photo is Hole #2 - Double-click to view). A good drive to the right will steer you clear of an overhanging oak at the inside elbow about 240 yards out. Your second shot goes downhill on the back portion of the dogleg, hopefully avoiding bunkers along both sides. This half-dollar green has two front-side bunkers and slopes right to left, with a severe drop-off at the right. If you're accurate, a birdie is an achievable reward.

The 3rd is another scenic hole with stepped-up tee boxes and a densely, tree-lined fairway. This par-3 is 166 yards to an ample green surrounded by four bunkers. The wind comes into play here, as does the distracting view.

Back to Golf