Golf courses in Miami Beach, FL.

Miami Beach, FL

Miami Beach Golf Club opened to the public on January 10, 1923, originally as the Bayshore Golf Course, part of developer Carl Fisher's Alton Beach subdivision. English architect Willie Park laid out the original course, and golfer Gene Sarazen played its first exhibition round in 1922. During World War II the U.S. Army used the grounds as a training area. In 2002 and 2003, the City of Miami Beach hired architect Arthur Hills to lead a full rebuild of the course, regrading the land, redoing the lakes and constructing a new clubhouse. The redesigned, par-72 layout is set only blocks from the beach in an urban section of Miami Beach, with strategic fairway bunkering and water hazards shaping several holes. It remains a municipally owned course open to public play.