Panama Country Club

Overview: Panama Country Club is an 18-hole private course at 100 Country Club Drive in Lynn Haven, overlooking the North Bay area of Florida’s Panhandle. The current club scorecard identifies Donald Ross as architect, dates the course to 1927 and lists par 72, with the blue tees measuring 6,573 yards. The layout combines a traditional parkland setting with water and tree-lined corridors.

History: Panama’s Florida State Golf Association listing carries the phrase “Preserving & Protecting the Game Since 1913,” while the current scorecard dates the golf course itself to 1927. Donald Ross is the club’s current architect attribution, although historical golf research has questioned whether Captain Charles Hugh Alison had a role in the original design. Those records are kept separate rather than presented as settled fact.

Did You Know? The current scorecard identifies a cemetery beside the sixth hole in its local course notes. It is an unusual piece of land history within the routing and helps explain why the club’s local rules refer to the hole’s landscape rather than treating every boundary as ordinary out of bounds.