Streamsong Resort: Black

Bowling Green, FL Public

Overview

Gil Hanse’s Black Course at Streamsong, Golf Digest’s Best New Public Course of 2018, sits a mile south of the resort’s Red and Blue Courses, with its own clubhouse and its own personality. Reshaped from a decades-old phosphate strip mine that lacking tall spoil mounds, Hanse provided strategic character by building a hidden punchbowl green at nine, dual putting surfaces at 13, incorporating a meandering creek on the par-5 fourth and a lagoon cove to guard the 18th green. Both the putting surfaces and the chipping areas surrounding them were grassed in MiniVerde, and today both are mowed at a single height, resulting in the biggest, most complex greens found on our national ranking. One Streamsong insider calls the Black greens “polarizing;” we call them tremendous fun.

About

Holes 18
Length 7331
Slope 135
Price $164
Facility Type Public
Year Opened 2017
Designer Gil Hanse

Awards

100 Greatest the Second 100
100 Greatest Public
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since debut in 2019.
2023-'24 ranking: 178th.
Previous ranking: 169th.
Highest ranking: 169th, 2019 to 2022.

100 Greatest Public: Ranked since debut in 2019.
2023-'24 ranking: 29th.
Previous ranking: 34th.
Highest ranking: Current.

Best in State: Ranked ninth, 2019 to current.

Panelists

Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

4.6

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.3393
Character
7.4147
Challenge
7.2331
Layout Variety
7.3829
Fun
7.359
Aesthetics
7.2842
Conditioning
7.3792

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