The toughest course in the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL combined area is Madison Green Country Club, at slope 155 — ahead of Medalist Golf Club at slope 155 and Hills at Jupiter Hills Club at slope 152.
All 170 courses in the area with a USGA slope rating for its men’s tees are ranked below, along with 5 more lists: hardest from the tips, longest, widest tee spread, oldest, highest above sea level.
Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL is a combined statistical area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Toughest test
— the top 25 of 170 courses with a USGA slope rating for its men’s tees
The highest USGA slope rating published for any of the men’s tee sets. Slope rates difficulty for a bogey golfer relative to a scratch golfer — a rated figure issued by the golf association, not an opinion about the course. Men’s ratings only, because a tee is rated separately for men and for women and the two scales do not compare; a course rated only for women is not in the running rather than converted.
Hardest from the tips
— the top 25 of 162 courses with a USGA course rating for its men’s tees
The highest USGA course rating published for any of the men’s tee sets — the score a scratch golfer is expected to shoot. Men’s ratings only, for the same reason as slope: the men’s and women’s ratings of one tee are different measurements. It measures difficulty and nothing else; it is not a quality score and never orders these pages by how good a course is.
Longest
— the top 25 of 255 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panther National Championship Course | 7,864 yds |
| 2 | The Club at Emerald Hills | 7,827 yds |
| 3 | Trump National Golf Club | 7,531 yds |
| 4 | Medalist Golf Club | 7,515 yds |
| 5 | Quail Valley Golf Club | 7,460 yds |
| 6 | The Club At Ibis The Legend Course | 7,442 yds |
| 7 | Old Palm Golf Club | 7,401 yds |
| 8 | Hills at Jupiter Hills Club | 7,344 yds |
| 9 | Coral Ridge Country Club | 7,322 yds |
| 10 | The Dye Preserve Golf Club | 7,312 yds |
| 11 | Pine Tree Golf Club | 7,308 yds |
| 12 | Emerald Dunes Golf Club | 7,306 yds |
| 13 | Crandon Golf at Key Biscayne | 7,301 yds |
| 14 | Sunrise Course at Country Club at Mirasol | 7,298 yds |
| 15 | The Bears Club | 7,261 yds |
| 16 | Weston Hills Country Club Players Course | 7,260 yds |
| 17 | Championship at Colony West Country Club | 7,258 yds |
| 18 | Shell Bay Club | 7,254 yds |
| 19 | Wellington National Golf Club | 7,253 yds |
| 20 | Mcarthur Golf Club | 7,251 yds |
| 21 | Seminole Golf Club | 7,250 yds |
| 22 | Loxahatchee Club | 7,240 yds |
| 23 | Dye Course at Pga Golf Club | 7,221 yds |
| 24 | Boca West Country Club Palmer I | 7,220 yds |
| 25 | Old Marsh Golf Club | 7,215 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Widest tee spread
— the top 25 of 245 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.
Oldest
— the top 25 of 169 courses with an opening year
The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.
Highest above sea level
— the top 25 of 259 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hills at Jupiter Hills Club | 54 ft |
| 1 | Village at Jupiter Hills Club | 54 ft |
| 3 | Quail Valley Golf Club | 44 ft |
| 4 | Indianwood Golf Country Club | 41 ft |
| 5 | The Cape Club of Palm City | 38 ft |
| 6 | Oak Leaf Golf Course | 36 ft |
| 7 | Country Club of Florida | 34 ft |
| 7 | La Cita Country Club | 34 ft |
| 7 | The Club At Ibis The Heritage Course | 34 ft |
| 7 | The Club At Ibis The Legend Course | 34 ft |
| 7 | The Club At Ibis The Tradition Course | 34 ft |
| 7 | Trump International Golf Club The Executive Golf Course | 34 ft |
| 13 | American Golf Club Vero Beach Red Course | 32 ft |
| 13 | Redstick Golf Club | 32 ft |
| 15 | Medalist Golf Club | 31 ft |
| 15 | Medalist Village Golf | 31 ft |
| 15 | The Legacy Golf Tennis Club Championship Course | 31 ft |
| 18 | Boca Rio Golf Club | 30 ft |
| 18 | Dye Course at Pga Golf Club | 30 ft |
| 18 | East at Wycliffe Country Club | 30 ft |
| 18 | Ryder Course at Pga Golf Club | 30 ft |
| 22 | Mcarthur Golf Club | 29 ft |
| 22 | Mcarthur Golf Club Backyard Course | 29 ft |
| 24 | Pine Tree Golf Club | 28 ft |
| 25 | Ballenisles Country Club East Course | 27 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.