Amelia Island Plantation sports three distinctive golf courses, Ocean Links, Oak Marsh and the
private club, Long Point, on the resort's 1350 acres that include world class restaurants, seaside
villas and condominiums, the Amelia Inn and Beach Club, shops, seven miles of hiking and biking
trails, a world class spa, and a tennis complex that hosts a women's professional tennis tournament.
For its extensive kids program, Family Circle Magazine one year named the Plantation the best
family resort of the year, and it is surely a
Florida classic.
Ocean Links is
the newest addition to the golf facilities. The course was co-designed by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed, a
locally based architect who also designed the
Golf Club at Fleming Island,
south of Jacksonville, and
the Slammer & Squire
at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.
Ocean Links Golf Course Views
At only 6100 yards from the tips, Ocean Links is not long but it is very tight, with seaside holes that
are pinched between the villas and the beach and inland holes that weave through forests of pines,
myrtle and oaks and around lakes. For this reason, the course has high slope (134). From the white
tees, the course measures only 5600 yards but the slope is 126.
At 6,600 yards from the back (6,000 from the middle),
Oak Marsh, a
Pete Dye original, winds through oaks and pines on the front nine and along the salt marshes on the back.
The course is also very tight and boasts several bulkheaded greens. Water comes into play on 14 holes.
Some of the tee boxes, particularly on the back side, are situated virtually in the backyard of private
homes. The last three holes are outstanding, beginning with the 171 yard 16th requiring a carry over
water (Amelia River), a terrific long par 4 17th that winds along marsh, and the even more spectacular
18th, a 523-yarder (502 from the middle) that also features marsh all down the left side. Long hitters
can reach home in two, but the second shot must carry about 50 yards of marsh to a green
bunkered front, left and back. It's a nervy shot on one of the more picturesque holes you will ever play.
16th, 17th & 18th Holes at Oak Marsh
Long Point was designed in
the late '80s by Tom Fazio and has all the ingredients of a great course. Plantation guests have access to this
course with a surcharge. Two dramatic par 3s wind along the seashore on the east on a course whose front
nine sweeps out west toward the Amelia River. It is arguably the best course of the three Plantation layouts.
For reservations at Amelia Island Plantation, call 1-800-874-6878. 
Amelia Island Golf
