The toughest course in the Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, FL combined area is Hammock Dunes Rees Jones Creek Course, at slope 152 — ahead of Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club North South Course at slope 151 and Hammock Beach Resort The Conservatory Course at slope 150.
All 132 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.
Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, 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 132 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 119 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 191 courses with a published scorecard
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 185 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 132 courses with an opening year
| # | Course | Oldest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oceanside Golf Country Club | opened 1907 |
| 2 | Winter Park Golf Course | opened 1914 |
| 3 | Mountain Lake | opened 1916 |
| 4 | Mayfair Country Club | opened 1922 |
| 5 | Dubsdread Golf Course | opened 1924 |
| 5 | Riviera Country Club | opened 1924 |
| 7 | Lake Wales Country Club | opened 1926 |
| 8 | Mount Dora Golf Club | opened 1946 |
| 8 | Pines Golf Course | opened 1946 |
| 10 | Casselberry Golf Club | opened 1947 |
| 11 | New Smyrna Golf Club | opened 1953 |
| 12 | The Greens at Churchill S | opened 1955 |
| 13 | Rio Pinar Golf | opened 1957 |
| 14 | Ocean Palm Golf Course | opened 1959 |
| 15 | Bay Hill Club Lodge Championship Course | opened 1961 |
| 16 | Deltona Club | opened 1964 |
| 17 | Green Valley Country Club | opened 1966 |
| 18 | Bay Hill Club Lodge Charger Course | opened 1969 |
| 19 | Disneys Magnolia Golf Course | opened 1971 |
| 19 | Disneys Palm Golf Course | opened 1971 |
| 21 | Cypress Point Rv Golf Club | opened 1972 |
| 21 | Disneys Lake Buena Vista Golf Course | opened 1972 |
| 21 | Orange Tree Golf Club | opened 1972 |
| 24 | Cypresswood Golf Country Club | opened 1973 |
| 24 | Palm Harbor Golf Club | opened 1973 |
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 199 courses with a coordinate we could sample
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.