Miami Beach Golf Club
Sports
Discover the Miami Beach Golf Club, featuring 18 holes on a par-72 course lined with native palm trees and serene water features. The vibrant blue-green paspalum grass adds to the lush landscape, known for its durability and eco-friendliness. The course promises a challenging experience, especially in the final three holes. Highlights include the short par-four 16th and the par-four 18th hole, both celebrated for their Old Florida, offering a memorable golfing adventure for all.
The Miami Beach Golf Club also features a full-service restaurant, fully stocked pro shop and individual lessons taught by golf pros.
The history of the Miami Beach Golf Club is as full of doglegs as its course is. The club opened in 1923 as the Bayshore Golf Course, the brainchild of developer Carl Fisher, whose nearby Alton Beach subdivision was created as a luxurious winter draw for rich residents of Northern cities.
During World War II, the U.S. Army rented the course for $1 a year and used it as a training outpost, providing ample space for soldiers to practice their tactical moves between the palm trees.
The course almost disappeared entirely in 1944, when a group of Chicago investors made a play to buy it and build 650 upscale homes on the grounds, but golf-loving neighbors convinced the city to buy the land and preserve the course.
The golf course, set in the historic South Beach community, underwent a top-to-bottom, $10 million renovation in 2003, removing most of the trees and grass; redesigning water features for better drainage and challenge; resculpting bunkers and hills; adding a modern practice facility; and razing the old clubhouse and building a new Art Deco one. After this massive transformation, the course became the Miami Beach Golf Club.
