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Best golf courses near Naples, FL
Below, you’ll find a list of courses near Naples, FL. There are 108 courses within a 15-mile radius of Naples, 16 of which are public courses and 82 are private courses. There are 86 18-hole courses and 22 nine-hole layouts.
The above has been curated through Golf Digest’s Places to Play course database, where we have collected star ratings and reviews from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists. Join our community by signing up for Golf Digest+ and rate the courses you’ve visited recently.

Calusa’s developer, Gary Chensoff, a Chicago venture capitalist, survived a rare form of cancer despite long odds, and his recovery strongly influenced how Calusa Pines was designed and built. Chensoff decided to gamble, instructing Hurdzan-Fry to design the most unique course in south Florida despite a dead flat site. They responded by piling up fill from ponds to form ridge lines up to 58 feet, then planted them with mature oaks, pines and sabal palms. Calusa Pines sports perhaps the firmest, fastest Bermuda fairways and greens in Florida, rivaled only by the turf at Streamsong. Recent removal of overgrown vegetation between holes has returned beautiful long-range views to the course and made it more playable.
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You might consider Naples National a test run for Calusa Pines. Built eight years earlier by the same team of architects, Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, on a site nine miles away, Naples National occupies a similar type of vegetated, swampy non-descript land requiring significant enhancement to make it work. Excavated lakes provided material to create topographical interest, sandscapes and alluring landscaping, just on a smaller scale than at Calusa Pines where a similar approach would create a large dune system 60 feet high that holes could run up and down. Though more modest in scale and elevation change, Naples National is just as unique. A thick layer of coral rock beneath the site that had to be pounded out for necessary irrigation was repurposed as colorful edging support for lakes and hazards, and also for an ongoing motif of rock walls that run along fairways, greens and bunkers.
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This P.B. Dye golf course is the vocal point of a 540-acre gated community just a few minutes from the beach. In 2021, the course resurfaced all 18 greens with TifEagle Bermuda and installed a new subsurface drainage system. All 98 bunkers also had work done.
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Of the public options sprinkled across Naples, Greg Norman's Tiburón courses at the Ritz-Carlton provide the best balance of quality golf and convenience, situated in the heart of North Naples. That ideal combination comes at a cost, though, as green fees can be upwards of $300. The Gold course—ranked on our Best Courses You Can Play in Florida list—features stacked sod wall bunkers and no conventional rough and is home to the LPGA’s CME Group Tour Championship and the PGA Tour’s QBE Shootout.
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The Club At Mediterra South Course in Naples is one of the best golf courses in Florida. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information.
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At first glance this course seems typically "south Florida" with the golf holes almost a secondary consideration to the housing masterplan, strung out single-file with little sense of rhythm or connectivity. Upon closer look, it's anything but typical. In 2011, architect Steve Smyers completely remodeled the original mid-2000s design (it's never a good sign when a course needs a complete makeover at only four years of age), revamping the greens and bunkering in more strategic ways. His inspirations were the shapes and ideologies of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor in the 1910s and '20s, though the holes are not replicas of their templates. Instead he examined playing lines and routes into greens and adjusted the more simplified bunkering to create risk and reward options and shades of gray decisions. Most notable he installed one of the state's most unique sets of greens, presenting their slopes, tiers and platforms in geometric shapes: squares, rectangles, arched rectangles and even triangles.
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Of the public options sprinkled across Naples, Greg Norman's Tiburón courses at the Ritz-Carlton provide the best balance of quality golf and convenience, situated in the heart of North Naples. That ideal combination comes at a cost, though, as green fees can be upwards of $300. Nestled among the Florida pines, Tiburón Black uses the natural landscape to feature undulating greens and crushed coquina waste areas. Like its sibling Gold course, the Black is featured on our Best Courses You Can Play in Florida list.
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If you’re staying close to downtown Naples or on the south side of town, Lely Resort is a great public option. There are 54 holes on property, with two of the three layouts open for public play. The par-72 Mustang, designed by World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino, tips out over 7,200 yards and plays through the South Florida marshlands.
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