PGA Golf Club (Wanamaker)

Overview: The Wanamaker Course at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie is a Tom Fazio design framed by wetlands, palms and palmettos. Its Florida setting gives the course visual width, but the layout still asks for disciplined placement around water, transition bunkers and carefully shaped greens. The 18-hole course is par 72 and plays about 7,100 yards from the championship tees. Its combination of resort playability and championship preparation makes it more demanding than a casual first look may suggest, with the surrounding vegetation often defining the safest line into a green.

History: PGA Golf Club opened in Port St. Lucie in 1996 as a project of The PGA of America. The Wanamaker Course was part of the club’s original golf identity and was named for Rodman Wanamaker, whose 1916 initiative helped lead to the creation of The PGA of America. Tom Fazio’s design sits within a larger 54-hole complex that also includes layouts by Pete Dye. The property has also maintained an Audubon-certified approach to habitat and course management for more than two decades.

Did You Know? The Wanamaker name is a direct link to golf’s institutional history. Rodman Wanamaker’s meeting in 1916 helped set the organization of The PGA of America in motion, and the course carries that name in a setting owned and operated by the same association. The layout’s wetlands, palms and palmettos are not just visual markers of South Florida; they create the natural corridors through which Fazio routes the holes.