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There’s more to sporting events than just what’s in the field of play. These days, the fan expects more for his ticket, and he’s get-ting it.

Go to a Jaguars’ game and you hear bands, watch flyovers and ogle the dancers. Go to a Suns’ game and there’s hardly a between-inning where they don’t have some sort of game to amuse you.

Go to this month’s Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open, or next May’s Players, and you’ll find plenty to amuse you when you want a break from golf. There are fan-friendly spectator pavilions, plenty of plac-es to sit and watch, and concerts after play has ended.

Like every other sport, golf has added some pizzazz.

It started around here with the Swingers’ Tent. The best recol-lection by veteran golf watchers (I wasn’t around) is that it popped up when the Greater Jacksonville Open was played at Deerwood in the early 70’s.

It was indeed a tent, and a big one, and it was between the old club-house and the 18th green (now the 9th green.)

When the final putt dropped, the party began. And didn’t end until the last person stumbled away.

As best as anyone can recall, it was the first promotional effort for a PGA Tour event here.

Now, I’ve heard all sorts of stories about the Swingers Tent, including one where a prominent Tour play-er’s late carousing almost cost him his marriage, and I’ll assure one and all that today’s promotions

aren’t nearly as rowdy.

Maybe some purists don’t like the additions to the golf. “Distrac-tions,” they might say. And they’re right when they say that. They have their gimmicky edges, for sure. My response: so what? You don’t have to deal with them if you don’t want to.

And for those of you who appre-ciate having something else to do, let’s pass along the names of Matt Rapp and Jeff Sanders. They are the respective directors of the Players and the Winn-Dixie Open, and they are the men behind the enhancements. (We also should mention some other Players direc-tors, most notably Brian Goin, who laid tremendous groundwork for the Players.)

I’ve been particularly interested in Sanders because I wasn’t sure that a football-season Nationwide tour-nament would attract much atten-tion here. If they expected to pull people just because it was a) at the TPC, b) because the Gators had an open date or c) because the Jag-uars weren’t playing until Monday night, they were dead wrong.

The Players draws because it’s the thing to do, as well as bringing in the world’s best. The Nationwide tournament can’t say either.

Sanders knew that. He strikes me as a guy with a lot of vision who can see things clearly here even though he lives in Washington state. He certainly had the access to people like Goin and Rapp to give some direction, but he was building a new bridge and that al-ways has its own problems.

I like what I see. The Winn-Di-xie isn’t going to end up like the other “second” tournaments here (remember the Liberty Mu-tual Legends? The Senior Players? Better forgotten.)We seem to have a keeper. Good for everyone involved. Comments?I’m at [email protected]

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Peter L. Lynch has been president of Winn-Dixie Stores since 2004 and previously was CEO of another su-permarket chain, New Albertsons. In that position, he became involved with the Nationwide Tour through sponsorship of the Albertsons Boise Open.

He has led the resurgence of the once-bankrupt Winn-Dixie chain and has been responsible for bring-ing the Nationwide Tour to North Florida through sponsorship of the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open pre-sented by Planters.

He discussed the tournament recent-ly with Jacksonville Golf Magazine.

You’ve used sports (Jaguars, golf) heavily as a promotional tool? How do you see the tie-in between them and Winn-Dixie?Serving as the Official Supermarket of the Jacksonville Jaguars offers Winn-Dixie the unique opportunity to partner with the Jaguars to give back to the neighborhoods in which

we operate. We have been able to provide support for our local schools through programs like the A-Team, and we have been able to provide the needed food and resources to our local food banks by means of our food drives and community events.

There is tremendous interest for golf in the North Florida area, and through the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open, we can extend that following with the golf fans who can watch the tournament in person as well as nationally through its exposure on the Golf Channel.

Do you have your eye on any other sports? For instance, Winn-Dixie once had a small presence in NAS-CAR.We aren’t looking to expand in the foreseeable future, but we are always exploring the best ways to market our brand to our guests.

Were you confident that you could have the same successful tourna-ment here that you had in Boise?We were very confident that we would have tremendous success with the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open with Jeff Sanders as our tournament director. Jeff Sanders Promotions is a national leader in the golf event management industry and I worked with him on the Nationwide Tour event in Boise beginning in 1990.

With Ponte Vedra as the headquar-ters of the PGA Tour and the home of The Players Championship and TPC Sawgrass, we were confident that the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open could be one of the most successful stops on the Nationwide Tour.

The tournament here has added numerous fan-friendly elements such as the enhanced pavilion and a concert. Do you see these being expanded in the future?We are always looking for ways to expand the event and to add more features for our fans. This year along with our returning Winn-Dixie Pavil-ion, we have added the Birdies for the Brave Patriot Outpost that will be open exclusively to military per-sonnel and family during the tour-nament.

How have you liked the charity component — i.e., letting chari-ties sell tickets and keep the money?The Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open was originally set up to focus sole-ly on the charities and the funds that would be raised for our foun-dation and local non-profit groups. We want to be a good neighbor for our guests and we want to be a part of the neighborhoods we serve, and

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“We were very confident that we would have tremendous success with the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open.”

On the coverLynch (right) presents the trophy to David Mathis, winner of last year’s Winn-Dixie Open.

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Herb Peyton is an-other corporate exec who puts his money into sports and our game certainly has benefitted through his sponsorship of

the Gate Invitational and the Gate Senior. ‘It’s good for Ponte Vedra, it’s good for the commu-nity and it’s good for golf,” said Peyton last month after present-ing the plaques at the Invita-tional. “Ponte Vedra is a special place and it’s an honor to have the tournaments here. That’s why we participate.” <<<

Tough times at the Times-Union and it was a loss to the sports community when sportswriter Jeff Elliott was part of the latest downsizing. He covered any sport willingly and well. <<<

Jag placekicker Josh Scobee says he’s put the clubs in the closet until football season ends. But he’d love to be considered for the Underwood Cup team, so he’ll hit the links hard come January 2. <<<

It’s a tribute to Billy Donovan’s coaching that the Florida bas-ketball team is in the pre-season polls. The talent level certainly isn’t Top 25. <<<

Why doesn’t The Players have pro-am on the Monday before the Winn-Dixie tournament, using Na-tionwide Tour players and opening spots to the community? The W-D pro-ams are sold out to grocery suppliers, so locals don’t have a shot there. <<<

Good try by Hyde Park pro Gary Murfitt in the Gate Invitational. His playing time is limited due to work and family but he hung in there at Ponte Vedra until a double-bogie-double on 15-16-17 dropped him out of the lead. <<<

We know that guys like Matt Kuchar, Vijay Singh and Jim Fu-ryk won big bucks on the PGA Tour this year but there’s one you don’t think about: Paul Tesori, who caddies for Webb Simpson. If he’s getting the usual 10 percent, then his ‘11 earnings are well north of a half million. <<<

Former JU golfer and top 25 Nationwide Tour player Russell Knox is from Scotland and he didn’t hesitate when asked about the Walker Cup. “The American team has better players but the conditions will be horrible and the our boys will win,” he said. He grew up near the Royal Ab-erdeen course and said it would be cold, rainy and “nothing like the Americans have seen.” And he was right: A bunch of Great Britain/Ireland no-names beat the U.S., 14-12. <<<

Golfweek magazine picks our Catherine O’Donnell as a third team All-American this year. She’s at North Carolina. <<<

The FSGA/FWSGA merger can only help the ladies. Their state organization never has achieved much distinction despite good ef-forts and having the assistance of FSGA director Jim Demick and his staff will help more than any of them realize. <<<

Just when you thought there were too many age groups, now we find that the Kentucky GA has a “Super Mid-Am” division. It’s 40 and over, with the Mid-Am being 25 and up. <<<

The PGA Tour stop at Sea Island is a very pleasant place to spend a few days. You can get there in under two hours, there won’t be many other spectators (sugges-tion: get a better p.r. firm) and the course and amenities are fab-ulous. <<<

The Gator Bowl Association sent a questionnaire (good move!) and then surprised those who responded with a $5 bill and a thank-you note from Chairman Greg Smith (great move!) And don’t laugh about the new spon-sor, taxslayer.com. It’s a big deal and it comes via ESPN, which slowly is taking over all facets of college football. <<<

— Fred Seely is editor of Jacksonville Golf & Sports Magazine and can be reached at

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Herb Peyton:a man who helps us all

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Herb Peyton


O’Donoghue is closest to pinSteve O’Donoghue of Ponte Vedra Inn & Club is the Northern Chapter PGA’s “City Wide Closest to the Hole Champion” after winning a shootout on the TPC Stadium Course’s third hole.

O’Donoghue, John Holmes of Sel-va Marina and John Milton of Mill Cove were the best in the qualifying round, where 42 area club champi-ons competed.

With each getting three tries, O’Donoghue was closest at 9 feet, 8 inches.

The competetion was sponsored by Titleist, Brumos, Bionic, Bridges-tone, Callaway, Cleveland and Foot-Joy.

Northern Chapter players fared poorly in the North Florida PGA Sec-tion Championship with only Marsh Creek’s Cary Splane cracking the top 10 in the field of 81 at Walt Disney World.

Splane had a 3-under 213 to tie for fourth. The winner was Orlando Or-ange Tree’s David Damesworth at 11-under 205, two better than Rod Perry of Daytona Beach CC.

Splane won $1,450.

Northern Chapter PGA

Richie Bryant shot 69 to win low pro honors at the Northern Chapter PGA’s pro-am last month at Hidden Hills.

In team play, St. Johns CG teach-ing pro Tom Stecker won with three Queen’s Harbour amateurs: Randy Slocum, Bob Streightiff and Dick Cameron. They were plus 8 in the Stableford competition.

Bryant was three shots better than

Stecker and teaching pro Brad Rol-linson in the individual play. At 73 were host pro Wayne Ulmer, Windsor Parke teaching pro Kirk Jones and Mayport Windy Harbor pro Jon Fine.

Bryant’s team was one off the pace. His amateurs were Pablo Creek mem-bers Colin Armstrong, Bob Maisch and Joe Fant.

There were 17 teams.

Bryant is low at Hidden Hills

Splane gets Section top 10

Gate winners

Amateur Blake Holcomb (second from left) was the overall winner of last month’s Gate Invitational at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. He’s joined here by Gate CEO Herb Peyton, pro winner Richie Bryant and host pro Jim Howard. Holcomb finished at 2-under 212, one better than Luis Rivera. Bryant was ninth overall at 222.

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Gerry James of Ponte Vedra’s Cen-ter Force Golf (right) won the North Florida PGA Senior Cham-pionship at the Reunion Resort near Orlando and qualified for the PGA of America’s Senior club pro championship this month in Virginia. He’s here with North Florida PGA director Rich Smith.

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the PepsiCo Tickets Fore Charity pro-gram is just another way to make a difference in our communities. Last year, we raised more than $1.6 mil-lion for charity and nearly $150,000 came directly from Jacksonville-area non-profit organizations who took advantage of the program.

Do you play golf? How often and how well?I do play golf, but unfortunately, I don’t get to play enough. My handi-cap is 18 right now.

What’s your favorite course? (Anywhere, not just around here.)My favorite hometown course is TPC Sawgrass. Outside of Jacksonville, I’ve had the good fortune to play several rounds at Augusta National.

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Nov. 5: Deercreek.

Nov. 20: St. Johns G&CC.

Dec. 4: St. Johns G&CC.

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Oct. 19: Directors, Palencia.

Nov. 21: Club Team Championship, Deerwood.

Dec. 13: Directors, Fleming Island.

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Oct. 5: Windsor Parke.

Oct. 12: Amelia River.

Oct. 19: Orange Park.

Oct 26: Ponte Vedra Lagoon.

Nov. 2: Eagle Landing.

Nov. 9: Amelia National.

Nov. 16: Jacksonville G&CC.Jax Golf & CC.

Nov. 28: Glen Kernan.

Dec. 7: Fernandina Beach.

Dec. 12: Hidden Hills.

Jan. 11: Dye’s Valley.

Jan. 18: Eagle Harbor.

Jan. 25: South Hampton.

Feb. 1: Selva Marina.

Feb. 8: North Hampton.

Feb. 15: Ponte Vedra Ocean.

Feb. 22: Sawgrass.

Feb. 29: Golf Club of Amelia.

Mar. 7: San Jose.

Mar. 14: Plantation.

Mar. 21: Amelia Island Planta-tion Ocean.

Mar. 28: St John’s G&CC.

Apr. 4: Queen’s Harbour.

Apr. 18: Hyde Park.

Apr 25: Jacksonville Beach.

May 2: Closing day at Palencia.

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Oct. 3: Pro-Assistant, Glen Kernan.

Oct. 17: Marsh Creek Pro-Am.

Nov. 7: Sawgrass Pro-Am.

Nov. 21: Pro-Am Tournament of Champions, Amelia National.

Dec. 12: Partners Pro-Am, TBA.

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Oct: 31: Eagle Harbor.

Nov. 14: Palm Harbor.

Nov. 21: Hidden Hills.

Dec. 12: Cypress Course, Grand Club.

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Oct. 13-16: PGA Tour McGladrey Classic, Sea Island.

Oct. 20-23: Nationwide Tour Winn-Dixie Open, TPC Valley.

Oct. 20-23: Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals Classic, Walt Disney World Magnolia and Palm.

LPGA Tour

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Dec. 2-5: Tour Championship, Orlando Grand Cypress.Other

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Dec. 15-16: Henry Tuten Gator Bowl Pro-Am, Timuquana and San Jose.

1stCoast GA

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Oct. 6: AmaTOUR at Deercreek.

Oct. 13: All Association at Ponte Vedra G&CC.

Oct. 20: Seniors at Eagle Landing.

North Florida PGA

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Oct. 25-27: North-South Cup, TBA.

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PROfile

The 45-year-old Jacksonville na-tive has been in the Pablo Creek leadership since it opened 16 years ago, first serving as head professional and now as general manager.

College: Georgia Southern, where he played under Buddy Alexander, now the University of Florida coach.

Family: wife, three children.

Previous jobs: assistant pro at Queen’s Harbour and Timuquana. Head pro at the now-closed Ra-vines.

Most recent accomplishment: Low pro in Gate Invitational. “Even though I didn’t win over-all, at least I was low pro and I’ve never done that. I’ve won just about everything else around here except the Gate.”

Biggest thrill: “It’s hard to be-lieve that Pablo Creek is now 16 years old. It’s been great to have been part of it since the start.”

Richie Bryant, Pablo Creek

British car show Legends on the Green, a show of British cars presented by the Jag-uar Car Club of North Florida, will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 22. The event is free and open to the public. The car show will feature a Jaguar Club of North America-sanc-tioned Jaguar Concours and is open to all classic, contemporary and ex-otic British cars.

Putting championshipEarly registration for the ninth an-nual Putting Championship is avail-able through Dec. 31. During the early registration period, the entry fee is reduced from $35 to $25. The event dates are March 10-24. There will be $10,000 in prizes on the line for this year’s finalists.

Hot shotsMemorabilia from two of the year’s most stunning events are on display

in the Hall of Fame: Jonathan Byrd’s hole-in-one to win a playoff at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and amateur Patrick Cantlay’s 10-under 60 at the Travelers Cham-pionship.

Class of 2011 exhibitsThe six newest members of the World Golf Hall of Fame now have their personal memorabilia on display. Er-nie Els, Doug Ford, Jumbo Ozaki, the late Jock Hutchinson, the late Frank Chirkinian, and former President George H.W. Bush all have their own featured Inductee Exhibit on display in Shell Hall.

Coming up at the WGV

Players for the Underwood Cup matches will be decided within the next two months but the respective point standings give a strong indi-cation of who will be in the field for the Ryder Cup-like event.

The Cup match between area pros and amateurs will be Feb. 13-14 at Timuquana.

Almost assured of making the pro-fessional team are teaching pro Brad Rollinson, Spencer Brown of Selva Marina, Cary Splane of Marsh Creek and Gerry James of Center Force Golf.

They lead the points standings and the top eight from that list auto-matically qualify. Pro captain Tom-my Aycock of Ponte Vedra G&CC will

have the final four choices.

The amateur team may be chosen as early as next month and probable members include the Duke Butler IV, Gate Invitational winner Blake Holcomb, Steve Carter, Nate Mosby and Luis Rivera. Captain Billy Varn will have four captain’s choices.

The pro side is much more predict-able and the next four pros, with four points events remaining, are San Jose’s Todd Bork, Amelia Island Plantation’s Broc Nell, St. Johns G&CC teaching pro Tom Stecker and Palencia’s Mike Broderick.

Just outside the top eight and Richie Bryant of Pablo Creek, Timuquana’s Clint Avret and Amelia National’s Jack Aschenbach.

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Dale wins JAGASean Dale of UNF (left) scored a convincing 7-shot win in the Jack-sonville Area GA Amateur at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club and accepted the championship trophy from JAGA President Bob Streightiff. Dale, a transfer from the University of Mississippi, had a 17-under 267 over the Lagoon and Ocean cours-es. Second place went to ex-Nease High and James Madison Univer-sity player Mike Smith, who was tied with Dale going into the final round at 13 under but stumbled early in the final. Two more colle-gians followed: Furman’s Greg Car-rier (Providence High) and UNF’s Pete Kellerman (Bolles.)



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Local golfers will have a chance to play in the Winn-Dixie Open pre-sented by Planters when 14 spots in the field are available through quali-fying.

The qualifiers will be Oct. 17 at Marsh Creek and Cimarrone, with the entry deadline on Oct. 12.

The qualifying is conducted by the North Florida Section of the PGA of America. The entry fee is $350.

Florida native Jake Owen will head-line the concert on the clubhouse lawn following the Friday, Oct. 21 competition in the Winn-Dixie Open presented by Planters.

Owen, who grew up in Vero Beach, is a RCA recording artist and was named 2009’s Top New Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music.

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(Editor Fred Seely attended last month’s Jaguars-Jets game at MetLife Stadium near New York City. Here are his impressions.)

There are millions of Jets fans in the New York area but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of empty seats at their football games. To finance the new stadium, ticket and seat license prices were jacked way up. The Club Seats section was just as empty as what you see in EverBank Field.

Take this as badly as you wish, but Jets followers are much more knowl-edgeable about football than the Jaguars’ fans. No contest, really. Less booze, more intensity.

Public transportation can’t be much better. Take the train to Secaucus (that’s between NYC and Newark,) then transfer to another train that takes you closer to the stadium than the expressway comes to EverBank Field.

The new MetLife stadium is shared by the Giants and Jets and is steeper than ours. It’s in a sports complex, like ours, with an arena and a har-ness track sharing the parking lots. Size about the same (80,000 to our 76,000.) Great views of Manhattan, too, including the new tower under construction at the World Trade Cen-ter.

When you’re down 9-0 after 4 1/2 minutes, it’s hard to keep the motor running. You know the rest: 32-3.

It’s not surprising that they have a concession stand with nothing but kosher food.

Be ready for enhanced security all season and it’s because of a charac-ter at the Jets’ opener who strapped a taser to his leg and got into the stadium. You’ll now be checked from the ankles up, just like at the air-

port, and that means longer waits to get into the stadium.

The Times-Union doesn’t take too many sides when it comes to the Jag-uars ... until now. In the post-game TV show that runs on the newspa-per’s website, columnist Gene Fren-ette mused that perhaps it’s time for the “Blaine Gabbert Era” after

starting quarterback Luke McCown bombed. His co-host, beat writer Vito Stellino, obviously shocked Frenette when he changed the sub-ject: “When will the Jack Del Rio Era end? How much more evidence does Wayne Weaver need that this guy can’t coach?”

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Jacksonville Women’s GA opening day at Deerwood

Flight winners: Helen Short, Sue Ottenstroer, Sue Ban-aszak, Judy Ford; Paula Fairley, Betty White, Debra McDermott, Young Suk Lee; Kathy Danberg, Cynthia Hastings, Lynn Dickinson, Dianne Hartley; Suzanne Laplante, Sach Price, Linda Hoffman, Joyce Moore.

San Jose match play championshipGross - Rob Sandlin. Net - Roger Palmer.

Hidden Hills men’s club championshipsOverall - Mike Lopriore.

Senior - Pat Gray.

Super Senior - Barney Poston.

Legends - Jim Ward.

AmaTOUR at Fleming Island

1. John Essinger/Jeff Scott/J.C. Campbell.

All Association at Jacksonville G&CC

Flight winners: Brad Polhemus, John Hilton.

Seniors at Bent Creek

Flight winners: Randy Simmons, Joe Bressette.

Golf Channel TourTour Championship at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club

Mike Ellison.

Monthly event at Hammock Beach

Gene Johnson.

Northeast Florida Golf Association at LPGA Legends Course

Flight winners: Tony Krieg, Steve McLaughlin, John Masciotti, George Snow, Gary Dunn, Reggie Frye.

San Jose Ladies InvitationalOverall: Tama Caldabaugh. Flight winners:Susie Fonde, Nina Polnoi, Diane Gifford, Jane Verkouteren, Linda Hoffman, Sally Leonard, Barbara Ulch, B.J. Murphy, Betty Gurney.

San Jose Senior ChampionshipMid-Senior: Rob Sandlin. Net: Ford Nelson.

Senior: Mike Dawes. Net: Marty Laprade.

Super Senior: Ron Clark. Net: Vic Saunier.

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PUBLICBent Creek 103rd St. on Westside. Range. 779-0800.

Blue Cypress Off University Blvd. in Arlington. Range. 762-1971.

Cecil Field 103rd St. on Westside. Range. 778-5245.

Deerfield Lakes Lem Turner Rd. just south of Callahan. Range. 879-1210.

Fernandina Beach Amelia Island Parkway. Range. 800-646-5997

First Tee of Jacksonville Golfair Blvd. west of I-95 North. Nine holes. Range. 924-0401.

First Tee of St. Johns County. Three holes. SR 207, St. Augustine. 810-2231.

Hyde Park Northern dead end of Jammes Rd. on Westside. Range. 786-5410.

Jacksonville Beach Penman Rd. south of Beach Blvd. Range. 247-6184.

King & Bear Part of World Golf Village but about three miles south of main area off SR 16. Range. 940-6088.

Mill Cove Monument Rd. in Arlington. Range. 642-6140.

Palatka Moseley Ave. west of downtown. Range. 386-329-0141.

Palm Valley Palm Valley Rd. east of U.S. 1. Nine holes. Range. 285-8978.

River Bend Golf Links South of Green Cove Springs. Range. 284-8777.

Slammer & Squire In World Golf Village. Range. 940-6088.

St. Augustine Shores U.S. 1 south of St. Augustine. Range. 794-4653.

St. Johns Golf Club Cypress Links Blvd. 27 holes. Range. 209-0350.

Starke East of town. Nine holes. Range. 964-5441.

UNF Golfplex At University of North Florida. Three holes. Range. 620-2050.

SEMI-PRIVATEAmelia River Amelia Island Parkway. Range. 491-8500.

Champions Club at Julington Creek Off SR 13 in Mandarin. Range. 287-4653.

Cimarrone CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 287-2000.

Country Club of Orange Park West end of Kingsley Ave. in Orange Park. Range. 276-7664.

Cypress at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-437-5807.

Eagle Harbor CR 220 in Fleming Island. Range. 269-9300.

Eagle Landing OakLeaf Plantation. Range. 291-5600.

Golf Club at Fleming Island US 17 in Fleming Island. Range. 269-1440.

Keystone Golf & Country Club U.S. 21 south of town. Range. 352-473-4540.

Magnolia Point Off US 17 in Green Cove Springs. Range. 531-9784 or 269-9276.

Matanzas Course at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-446-6330.

North Hampton Off A1A west of Fernandina Beach. Range. 548-0000.

Pine Course at Grand Club Palm Coast. Range. 386-445-0852.

Ponte Vedra G & CC In TPC. Range. 285-0204.

Queen’s Harbour Atlantic Blvd. west of Intracoastal Waterway. Range. 221-1012.

Royal St. Augustine SR 16 west of I-95 in St. Augustine. Range. 824-4653.

Selva Marina Selva Marina Blvd. north of Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Range. 246-3144.

South Hampton CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 287-7529.

St. Johns Golf & Country Club CR 210 west of I-95. Range. 940-3200.

Windsor Parke Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. Range. 223-4653.

PRIVATEThese clubs are private and are open to the public only for special events.

Amelia National Off A1A west of Fernandina Beach. Range. 652-0660.

Deercreek North of Avenues Mall on Southside Blvd. Range. 363-1507.

Deerwood Baymeadows Rd. west of Southside Blvd. Range. 642-5917.

Glen Kernan Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. Range. 646-1116.

Grand Haven Palm Coast. Range. 386-445-2327.

Hidden Hills Monument Rd. in Arlington. Range. 641-8121.

Jacksonville Golf & Country Club Hodges Blvd. north of Butler Blvd. 223-6910.

Long Point South of Amelia Island Plantation. Range. 277-5908.

Marsh Creek A1A south of St. Augustine Beach. Range. 461-1145.

Marsh Landing South of Butler Blvd. in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 285-6514.

Osprey Cove East of I-95 at Exit 1 in Georgia. Range. 800-352-5575.

Pablo Creek San Pablo Rd. south of Butler Blvd. Range. 992-6900.

Palencia US 1 north of St. Augustine. Range. 599-9030.

Plantation Country Club A1A south of Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 543-2960.

San Jose San Jose Blvd. Range. 733-1511.

Sawgrass A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 273-3720.

Timuquana Timuquana Rd. west of US 17. Range. 389-0477.

RESORTThese courses are primarily for the use of resort guest or mem-bers. Some are also open for public play at certain times.

Omni Amelia Island Plantation In Amelia Island Plantation. 54 holes. Range. 261-6161.

Golf Club of Amelia Island Amelia Island at Ritz-Carlton. Range. 277-8015.

Ponte Vedra Inn & Club A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach. Range. 273-7710.

TPC Sawgrass In Sawgrass Country Club, 36 holes. Range. 273-3235. Open to public 14 days in advance.

MILITARYThese clubs are located on Navy bases and are for persons assigned to the bases or retired military per-sonnel. They occasionally are open for public play during special events.

NAS US 17 north of Orange Park. Range. 542-3249.

Windy Harbor Mayport Rd. north of Atlantic Blvd. in Atlantic Beach. Range. 270-5380.

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