The Directory · Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale —
the Home of Caddyshack and 36 championship holes.
Across Broward County — Grande Oaks in Davie (where the original Caddyshack was filmed, now a private Raymond Floyd design), thirty-six championship holes at Jacaranda in Plantation, and The Club at Emerald Hills in Hollywood. Broward balances strong semi-private conditioning with an honest public-access price point.
8 courses · sorted by access & tier
The Region
Fort Lauderdale golf courses, end to end.
Broward County's golf runs down the US-1 and I-95 corridor, concentrated in the inland communities west of Fort Lauderdale. Grande Oaks Golf Club in Davie carries the best story in the catalog: Raymond Floyd rebuilt what was once Rolling Hills Golf Club, the same property where the original Caddyshack was shot in 1979. It is a private club today, played by members and their guests. Jacaranda Golf Club in Plantation offers 36 holes of championship golf — club-grade conditioning kept accessible to the public. The Club at Emerald Hills in Hollywood is the public-access benchmark for Broward, at full championship length. Plantation Preserve Golf Course and Deer Creek Golf Club in Deerfield Beach round out the solid daily-fee tier. Broward doesn't try to out-glamour Doral or PGA National — it's a working golfer's corridor, well-maintained and priced accordingly.
The Directory
The best golf courses in Fort Lauderdale.
Arthur Hills · Deerfield Beach
Deer Creek Golf Club
Deerfield Beach's semi-private standout - 7,050 yards, Arthur Hills design, summer specials from $25.
John Condon · Pembroke Pines
Flamingo Lakes Country Club
John Condon's design in Pembroke Pines, opened in 1985 - compact par 71 in South Broward.
Raymond Floyd (redesign of William F. Mitchell's 1959 layout) · Davie
Grande Oaks Golf Club
Where Caddyshack was filmed - Raymond Floyd's redesign of the old Rolling Hills grounds, now NSU's home course.
Mark Mahannah · Plantation
Jacaranda Golf Club — East Course
Jacaranda's tighter East 18 - tree-lined corridors and accuracy-first challenge in Plantation.
A.J. Ewing and Ralph Young (original 18, 1933-1936); reconfigured by Red Lawrence and John Sandford, 1961 · Hollywood
Orangebrook Golf & Country Club — East Course
Orangebrook's tighter East 18 - smaller greens, more challenge, same city-park pricing.
Red Lawrence (first nine 1955, completed 1961) · Hollywood
Orangebrook Golf & Country Club — West Course
Hollywood's city-owned 36-hole classic - the West Course, Broward's best affordable public round.
von Hagge, Smelek and Baril · Plantation
Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club
Five tee sets, nature preserve setting - 7,148 yards of public golf in the City of Plantation.
Bruce Devlin and Robert von Hagge · Hollywood
The Club at Emerald Hills
Hollywood's championship benchmark - the public-access standard for Broward County golf.