BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- Set amongst more than 2,000 acres of remote land with virtually no development around the course, World Woods Golf Club is a pure golf escape within an hour's drive of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
Opened in 1993, this 36-hole complex is all-encompassing. While the clubhouse may be modest, the golf offerings are anything but: complete with a circular driving range, enormous putting and practice green, an irons range, an executive course and three practice holes.
Headlining the offerings are two 18-hole courses designed by Tom Fazio, Pine Barrens and Rolling Oaks. Though the two courses play beside one another, their appearances are completely different.
Pine Barrens, rated in the Top 100 Public Golf Courses by Golf Digest, sits on sandy soil that Fazio helped sculpt into a dramatic golf course that features huge, natural-looking waste bunkers, while holes are framed by tall pines.
Rolling Oaks, on the other hand, features a similarly long and challenging golf course that can play more than 7,300 yards from the championship tees. The design is more traditional, however, with large bunkers helping to shape doglegs around mighty, mossy oak trees. Regardless of which style you prefer, both courses easily rank among the top must-play golf courses in the Tampa area.
World Woods Golf Club - Pine Barrens - 7th
The par-3 seventh hole on World Woods Golf Club's Pine Barrens Course plays slightly downhill.
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World Woods Golf Club - Pine Barrens - 8
The eighth hole on World Woods Golf Club's Pine Barrens Course features a green well protected by bunkers down the right side.
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World Woods Golf Club - Pine Barrens - 10
The 10th hole is the first of two 220-plus-yard par 3s on the back nine on the Pine Barrens Course at World Woods Golf Club.
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World Woods Golf Club
World Woods Golf Club in Brooksville, Florida has been consistently ranked among the Top 100 golf courses in the United States.
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World Woods Golf Club - Pine Barrens - 16th
The par-3 16th hole on World Woods Golf Club's Pine Barrens Course plays more than 200 yards.
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World Woods Golf Club - Rolling Oaks - No. 8
The par-3 eighth hole on the the Rolling Oaks at World Woods Golf Club's plays downhill to a green guarded by water.
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World Woods Golf Club - Rolling Oaks - trees
Mossy Oaks litter both the Rolling Oaks and Pine Barrens Courses at World Woods Golf Club in Brooksville, Fla.
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World Woods Golf Club - Rolling Oaks - No. 16
The 16th hole on the Rolling Oaks Course at World Woods Golf Club is a par 3 that plays gently downhill.
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World Woods Golf Club - Rolling Oaks - No. 17
The par-4 17th hole on the Rolling Oaks Course at World Woods Golf Club is a short, narrow par 4.
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World Woods Golf Club - Rolling Oaks - No. 18
The 18th hole on World Woods' Rolling Oaks golf course plays to an elevated green.
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World Woods Golf Club - Putting Course
World Woods Golf Club features an expansive practice area, which includes a large putting and chipping green with many tiers.
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World Woods G.C.
In addition to two 18-hole courses designed by Tom Fazio, World Woods Golf Club also has a practice course and short course.
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