Located just to the south-west of Walt Disney World, Mystic Dunes Resort & Golf Club is a wonderfully natural and excellently crafted golf course - laid out on relatively flat, open terrain, but also with some tighter holes lined by old oaks, laden with hanging Spanish moss - sometimes exudes a typical Florida wetland feel, but also several linksy dune-like stretches - limited housing around the course maintains the natural feel - an attractive fusion of swamp land and expansive sandy waste areas, palms and pampas, old oaks and a couple of small ponds (in play at the par-4 10th and testing, (almost) island green par-3 11th, which unexpectedly sports a tropical-style water feature on the pond's left side) - the flatness of some holes is contrasted by others that create a more rolling, gently undulating feel - often limited bunkering around the greens, which puts the accent on your pitching and chipping skills, versus short-range bunker-play - pick of the holes includes: the wonderful par-3 5th played across open swamp to a green framed by tall oaks; the very natural par-4 4th, which introduces four railway-sleepered, pot bunkers, designed to catch any drives hit right of the fairway as it gently doglegs from left-to-right toward the green - a predominantly natural and always interesting layout that's very different from Orlando's preponderance of country-club, resort-style courses.