Description
Hanse's design offers a slightly different experience with massive greens, incredibly wide fairways, no rough, and waste areas outside the short grass. While the wide fairways can help with pace of play, the large greens and challenging undulations can slow things back down. While tee shots are generous throughout the course, approach shots are a mixed bag of elevated, downhill, and occasionally blind when attacking the hole location. You will also find that the open canvas Hanse had to work with allowed him to run the holes in a variety of directions which is ideal for a location that can experience more wind than heavily treed courses do. Conditioning is kept firm and fast with tightly mown grass that can sometimes become indistinguishable between the fairways and greens.
Signature Hole
The closing hole at Streamsong's Black course, a 586 yard par 5, instantly launches itself into the discussion of the best 18th holes in the state of Florida. The nearly 600 yard three-shotter. From the tee you have no idea what lies ahead, but upon ascending the fairway players are afforded a stunning view of a fairway that goes out to the left before wrapping around a lake on the right with the horizontal green being fronted by the water and surrounded by bunkers. The bold approach will be to take the short distance to the green by carrying the water in hopes of sticking the putting surface and having a look at eagle. . With gators as your spectators, the biggest risk/reward hole on the course awaits you on the final offering.
Wegolf Insider Tip
It is difficult to find a course with such large greens and with as much movement as those of the Black Course. It is key to leave the ball on the correct side of the green because, otherwise, you can leave a putt of perhaps 30-40 meters. Without a doubt, after playing the round, it is worth having something for lunch in the club house and then playing a round on the huge putting green called "Gaunlet" and which is almost 10,000 square meters.