Miami Lakes Golf Club

Miami Lakes Golf Club anchors the western end of Miami Lakes Drive, spread across what its own materials describe as more than five hundred tree-shaded acres, making it one of the largest single land uses inside the town’s boundaries and a defining piece of the community’s identity since before Miami Lakes even incorporated as a town. The course was originally designed by Bill Watts in 1962 and later renovated in 1998 by architect Kipp Schulties, giving it a design history that spans the same decades as the town itself, which the Graham family began developing around the same period.

The course plays as an eighteen-hole, par-72 championship layout, and the club’s site describes it as one of Miami’s best championship golf courses, though that characterization comes from the club’s own marketing rather than an independent ranking. Amenities on site include a driving range and practice areas, a golf pro shop, dining facilities, a fitness center, and banquet and catering services for events, alongside on-site hotel accommodations, since the golf club shares its grounds with the historic Miami Lakes Hotel. The club also hosts First Tee Miami, a junior golf program that is part of a national youth golf development initiative, giving younger Miami Lakes residents a structured entry point into the sport on the same course used by adult members and visiting golfers.

Miami Lakes Golf Club operates as a semi-private club, according to its own site, which has served golfers of varying skill levels for six decades under that model, meaning it accepts public play in addition to any membership program rather than restricting access entirely to members. Green fees vary by day and season, with the club’s published sample rates ranging from as low as seventeen dollars for a nine-hole round for members up to roughly two hundred forty-five dollars for a cart-inclusive round at peak times, along with discounted twilight, resident, and military rates.

The club’s connection to the town’s history runs deep: Miami Lakes was master-planned by the Graham family’s Graham Companies starting in the early 1960s, the same era the course was originally laid out, and the golf club has remained a central recreational anchor of the community through the town’s growth and eventual 2000 incorporation. While this listing was able to confirm the course’s physical scale, history, and amenities through the club’s own published materials, it was not able to independently confirm the current corporate ownership or management structure behind day-to-day operations, so that detail is flagged for readers who want full clarity on whether the course is run by a local operator or a contracted golf management company.

For Miami Lakes residents, the golf club remains one of the only large-scale recreational facilities inside town limits, offering a combination of course play, junior instruction, and event space that no other single business in the Experiences & Recreation category in this directory matches in scale.