Best golf courses near Jacksonville, FL

Pablo Creek near Jacksonville is what might be considered a "quiet" Tom Fazio design. The low-publicity golf-only club, built for a discerning owner in the mid-1990s, sits along an eponymoulsy named river on the edge of a vast preserve of swamps and wetlands near the Intracoastal Waterway. The low profile holes slink through carved corridors of flat pines and along the edges of marshes and lagoons with abrupt shoulders of turf built up over bunkers and waste areas to create relief. Scoring requires straight hitting and a deft short game as hitting the small, elevated greens is anything but easy.