Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club

Innisbrook is a massive golf course complex with 4-18 hole courses, tennis club, resort hotel, and villas. It's located north of Clearwater on US 19, and the Copperhead course is the venue for the annual PGA Tour stop in Tampa. If you're here for a day, play the Copperhead, just for the experience, it's overpriced, given the other courses here,but it's a very good golf course. The terrain of Copperhead is not what you'd expect in Florida, starting with the first tee...quite a lot of undulations and rolling hills, and fairways bordered by huge, old trees, not palm trees. The terrain gives you many uphill and downhill tee shots, elevation changes, and approaches over and around considerable water hazards. It's bordered with lakes, ponds and swamp lands which come into play regularly. It measures 7,340, 134 slope from the tips. The Island Course plays to 7,310 yards with tight tree lined fairways, water hazards, and bunkers, and is less demanding than the Copperhead, and is also a U.S. Open qualifier site as well as the site for the NCAA Championships. Highlands North Course plays to 6325 yards, and is similar in design to the Copperhead Course, just shorter, but extremely tough with tricky par 3s, tight fairways, trees, and water, and is more of a shotmakers course. Highlands South Course is par 71 • 6,620 yards, and is a more open and links style course with rolling and undulating fairways and a lot of fairway bunkers...100 or more, and water on 10 holes. Innisbrook is a good place just to plop for a few days and play great golf courses, all well conditioned, excellent customer service, the only critique is that the whole place just feels a bit dated.