Maple Leaf Golf & Country Club

Overview: Maple Leaf Golf & Country Club is an executive-style 18-hole course inside the gated 55-plus community at 2100 Kings Highway in Port Charlotte. The layout is par 62, with eight par fours and ten par threes, and the club's published course specifications list 3,606 yards from the blue tees. Tree-lined fairways, water and strategically placed bunkers define the compact parkland test.

History: The club's historical archive identifies 1979 as the year of the golf course, while independent course records credit Lane Marshall with the design. Maple Leaf later became resident-owned in 1990, and the current club continues to describe the course as part of a resident-owned 55-plus community. The reviewed current materials do not publish a reliable visitor tariff, so no fee is presented here.

Did You Know? Maple Leaf's ten lakes come into play on more than half of the holes, an unusually strong water presence for a 3,606-yard executive course. The official brochure also notes that a round is designed to fit into roughly three and a half hours.