Lake Nona Golf & Country Club

Lake Nona is a mid-1980s solo Tom Fazio design, built not long after his uncle and former design partner, George Fazio, stepped away from the business before his death in 1986. Named after an adjacent body of water just east of Orlando International Airport that borders the entire left side of the 18th hole (two other holes touch neighboring Buck and Red Lakes), the design was originally carved through central Florida jungles of pine, cypress and palmetto with attractive holes buffered by lagoons and exposed washes of sand. Over the last 30 years, a premium real estate development has filled in around it, one of the most upscale in the Orlando market. Today, Lake Nona is known as much for its PGA- and LPGA-heavy membership and homeowners as for what remains a wonderfully modest and pared-down early-period Fazio design.