Misty Creek Country Club

Overview: Misty Creek Country Club is an 18-hole Ted McAnlis course in Sarasota, set across roughly 350 acres of preserve with lakes and hammock forests. The current club page lists par 72 and 6,895 yards from the back tees, with seven tee sets extending the course down to 4,595 yards. Native vegetation and wildlife make the setting feel more like a preserve than a conventional residential course.

History: Misty Creek opened in 1985 as a McAnlis design. The course developed a reputation for combining a demanding championship layout with the natural character of eastern Sarasota, and current club material continues to describe the preserve setting as central to the experience. The researched records identify the present 18-hole routing rather than a separate nearby course.

Did You Know? The club reports more than seventy bird species on the preserve, alongside deer, bobcats and alligators. That wildlife-rich setting is not just scenery: the hammock forests, lakes and native corridors are the landscape framework through which McAnlis routed the holes.