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Eastern Virginia boasts some great golf, and Virginia
Beach is no exception. With the opening of the PGA
Tournament Players Club (TPC) in 1999, Virginia
Beach deservedly gained some national clout in the
golfingarena. Try your luck...as the pros see it
at the TPC, or take your chances at any of these
remarkable courses.
Bay Creek Golf Club - Cape
Charles - The latest Arnold Palmer offering
is possibly one of the most beautiful courses on
the east coast with four holes situated on the shores
of the Chesapeake Bay. Just across the Bay-Bridge
Tunnel, the 7200 plus yard course is bound to become
a golfing legend. (757) 332-9000
Bow Creek - An old-style municipal course,
Bow Creek provides some interesting play on its 70
par, 6000 yard length. (757) 431-3763
Cypress Point Golf and Country
Club - Laid out in a golf community setting,
Cypress Point is a semi-private golf club designed
by Ault and Clark. It's a distinctive 6740
yard course with bermuda fairways and lush bent grass
greens. Sounds like golf heaven, or is it something
else? (757) 490-8822
Hell's Point Golf Course
- When this course opened in 1984, it was named by
Golf Digest as one of "America's 100 Best New
Courses" and it has been since ranked as one
of the top 65 courses in the country. Designed by
Rees Jones, this 6766 yard, par 72 has some
"devilish" fairway angles, challenging
greens and sculptured bunkers. (757) 721-3400
Heron Ridge - Opened
in 1999, Heron Ridge is only the third Fred Couples
signature course built in the US. This long anticipated,
18 hole, par 72 course joins the TPC as one of the
new draws to Virginia and especially to Virginia
Beach golf! History is yet to be made, so try your
luck at one of the newest ventures around. (757)
426-3800
Honey Bee Golf Club in Virginia
- Another Rees Jones entry onto the Beach
golf scene, Honey Bee is a par 70, 6075 yard course
that was built in 1988. A challenge to any serious
golfer, this championship course has water on 10
holes, elevated tees and monstrous sand bunkers.
It's a real honey of a course, if you can take it!
(757) 471-2768
Kempsville Greens
- Considered short but interesting, Kempsville Greens
is a 6036 yard, par 70 municipal course surrounded
by three lakes, which makes you really think about
keeping on the fairway. (757) 474-8441
Owl's Creek Golf Center
- Okay, so what if it has a par of 62, Owl's Creek
(dubbed the little monster) is a well conditioned
course with some of the biggest hills at the Beach!
Course design by Brook Parker, the par
3, 18th has a 200 yard carry over water off the tee.
Are you really going to try for par? (757) 428-2800
Red Wing Lake
- Currently there are 18 holes designed by George
Cobb and another 18 in the works at Red Wing.
This championship layout is known for its large sloping
greens, water hazards and 84 strategically placed
traps, if you really want to play through. (757)
437-4845
Stumpy Lake - Designed
by Robert Trent Jones, this 72 par, Stumpy
Lake course is located in a natural setting surrounded
by water with lots of cypress trees. You just might
see deer in the woods and watch red-tailed hawks
swoop overhead as you follow the arc of your ball
down the fairway. (757) 467-6119
The Signature at West Neck
- Arnold Palmer has been busy in this area with two
new course introductions during 2001. Located in
the city of Virginia Beach is his Signature at West
Neck, designed to be a timeless classic with thirteen
lakes, bent grass greens and natural wetland vistas.
(757) 563-2911
TPC at Virginia Beach
- Long awaited and much touted, this PGA Tournament
Players Club course was designed by Pete Dye,
aided by native son, Curtis Strange. From
a flat Tidewater landscape, Dye and Strange have
turned out a 7400 yard, eye-popping masterpiece of
"curves and undulations" not seen in these
parts! A Nike Tour stop is planned for this year,
so come try your own expertise and see how you stand
compared with the pros. "You just have to be
smart enough to play the course at the length that
you can play it", says Curtis Strange. (757)
563-9440
• Keep an eye out for new courses scheduled
for the Tidewater area Look to Cape Charles, it's
just 17 miles north of Virginia Beach by way of the
bridge-tunnel! Arnold Palmer who has recently
completed his local Signature at West Neck course,
has just wrapped up his course for Bay Creek at Cape
Charles. Jack Nicklaus has another course
design for the same Cape Charles golf resort on the
drawing boards. Sounds like this area is becoming
a real golf center!
Reserve Early
...while your preferred accommodations are still
available.
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