North Shore Golf Club

North Shore is one of Orlando's many second tier golf courses, the typical Florida development course routed through a tightly packed residential community. The course is located on the southeast side of Orlando, about 10 minutes east of the airport in the Moss Park area off the 417 and Beach Line. We played the course from the "championship" tees, it was plenty long for our game at 6,500 yards, 71.5/132, designed by Mike Dasher. They call their two nines here Classic and Modern. The front side is the modern side, mostly open and links-style of layout with a lot of wetlands, long and big bunkers, mounded fairways, and visually some deceiving approaches to the greens, it really helps to play this side a few times to understand the design. The back side is mostly big, old, tree lined fairways with traditional bunkering, a couple of doglegs with water and/or wetlands in play as well. It's was very fair off the tee, even though it was wide open, you did need to be in the right spot on the tee ball to have a chance at a good shot at the pin. It was in good shape, both greens and fairways, and the prices reasonable. We saw the cart girl twice, the clubhouse was small, but functional with food and a bar. Enjoyable round altogether and convenient to most of the area with the freeway.