Errol Estate Country Club is a sparkling golf club replete with character, diversity and history. Nothing pretentious, nothing ostentatious, just a relaxed, natural charm that ensures a superb country club golfing experience.
Joe Lee designed Errol Estate`s original 27 golf holes, which opened in early 1973. The entire course dips and rolls around innumerable vistas, impressive landscaping and towering native pine and oak trees. The fairways are lush, the greens exacting, with dramatic views.
The Lake Course is the longest, though easiest, with strategically placed vegetation. These nine holes are more open and feature bunkers, wide fairways and wind. The finishing three holes offer the best of the course.
The 8th is a perilous par-3 that requires a 197-yard poke through overhanging trees to an elevated target green adorned by three bunkers and a steep slope in the back.
Finish at the par-4 9th with 426 yards of uphill aggravation, ameliorated momentarily by a wide fairway bordered by encroaching trees and bunkers on both sides from 200-yards out. Thus, the approach requires a straight shot to get you to the green, another bunker - smothered, elevated, back-drop-off, back-to-front sloping marvel.
The Grove Course is the toughest nine -- or so the golfers say -- and the trickiest of the entire 27 holes at Errol Estate because of the troublesome combination of trees, hills and narrow fairways. Two favorites (handicapped 2 and 1) are the 2nd and 8th holes.
Reputed to be the most irksome hole on the course, this 445-yard 8th is -- get ready -- a double dogleg downhill past encroaching trees with bunkers, marsh, and undulations to contend with (or avoid). A solid and accurate 250-yard drive puts you past the tree-clusters and over the ridge and to the right of the two bunkers. Hey, what`s the big deal? The approach must carry the marsh to hit a tiny flat teardrop of a green guarded by trees on the left, a bunker at the back right and the ubiquitous marsh on the right.
The Highland Course is our scenic course, a sampling of fun begins on the first three holes, a par-4, 5 and 3. The mild dogleg right 1st hole is a par-4, 398-yard beauty from every direction you play it. The tiered, stepped-up tee boxes preside over a tree-lined fairway that dips downhill and slopes right to left all the way up. It begins ascending at the landing area which rests at the elbow, to the right of which are two bunkers. From the 150-yard marker in, thick trees horseshoe around the fairway and green The uphill approach shot goes to an elevated, two-tiered green sloping to the front with bunkers on both sides. Look back before you leave to see a truly lovely, calming, vernal vista of Spanish moss-draped oaks, clusters of palms and rolling knolls.
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