Coral Creek Club

Overview: Coral Creek Club is a private Tom Fazio course in Placida, set between southern pines, oaks, palms, deep blue lakes and the saltwater estuary of Coral Creek. The club’s course page lists 7,038 yards and describes a 211-acre layout with six sets of tees. Fazio used the low Gulf Coast land without turning it into a generic flat resort course: high bunkers, water views and native vegetation create a distinct sequence of targets. The nearby nature preserve and mangroves give the course a rare coastal quietness.

History: The course opened in 2000 as the centre of a golf-first private club with limited residences around the perimeter. Coral Creek’s original design remains associated with Tom Fazio, while a later renovation refreshed greens, bunkers and turf systems. The current club continues to present the property as an integrated course and environmental setting rather than a housing development with golf attached.

Did You Know? Several holes look across mangroves toward the coastal waterways around Placida, while the course itself is bordered by a 6,000-acre nature preserve. That relationship between the playing corridors and the larger estuary landscape is one of Coral Creek’s defining visual details.