Golfing The Gulf Shores

Alabama's Gulf Coast is a golf and beach vacation destination located on a barrier island directly between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. The resort townships of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach comprise the area's 32-miles of sugar-white sand beaches.

Creatively designed and strategically placed, our courses have been designed by some of the greatest names in golf-Arnold Palmer, Bruce Devlin, Jerry Pate, Robert Von Hagge and Earl Stone. With over 200 holes to play, we've got the best game on the coast. From Scottish-style links to beachside greens, we promise to meet and challenge every level of skill.

Travel - Airport Options:

Pensacola Regional Airport (PNS), Pensacola, Florida (45 miles away)

Mobile Regional Airport (MOB), Mobile, Alabama (60 miles away)

Nightlife

Florabama billed as The Last Great American Road House. It is a party atmosphere with live music every day of the year.

Cool Dining Experience:

LuLu's at Homeport
Lucy Buffet's Family Restaurant. ("Jimmy's Crazy Sista")
Enjoy sipping on a "Bama Breeze" and savor on a Cheese Burger in Paradise.

Must See Sight Seeing:

Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida - Home of the Blue Angles
Watch the Blue Angles practice most Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. It is free and open to the public.

Golfing In Gulf Shores - Course Summary

There is a full weeks worth of golf in a 30 mile radius.

Cotton Creek at Craft Farms - Arnold Palmer Signature Design with generous fairways lined by Southern Hardwoods, undulating greens and a championship test from 7,028 yards, and owned and operated by Honours Golf.

Cypress Bend at Craft Farms - The sister Honours Golf property to Cotton Creek, the Arnold Palmer Signature Design meanders through cord-grass accented lakes which come into play on nearly every hole.

Glenlakes Golf Club - Scottish-style links course designed by Von Hagge and known for its extensive bunkering and postage-stamp greens.

Kiva Dunes - A "Top 100 Course in America" by Golf Digest, the Jerry Pate design is the only beachfront resort course in Gulf Shores.

Peninsula Golf and Racquet Club - Owned and operated by Honours Golf, the 27-hole facility offers chilled apples on the tee. The 830-acre park includes 30 lakes and fairways surrounded by Bon Secour Wildlife Preserve.

Rock Creek Golf Club - Also owned by Honours Golf and boasting rolling terrain and fairways lined by pines, the Earl Stone design overlooks freshwater wetlands and the Rock Creek basin.

TimberCreek Golf Club - This 27-hole design was crafted by Earl Stone and feels like an inland Carolina course with fairways lined by loblolly pines, dogwoods and magnolias.

The Golf Club of the Wharf - Formerly known as the Gulf Shores Golf Club, this was the Gulf Shores' first course. Opened it 1960, it was redesigned by Jay and Carter Morrish in 2005.