Fairwinds Golf Course

4400 Fairwinds Drive,

Fort Pierce, Florida FL 34946

  • Office

    +1 (772) 462 2722
  • Pro shop

    +1 (772) 462 1955
  • Fax

    +1 (772) 462 3589
  • Golf pro

    Mike Melton (PGA Head Golf Professional).

About the course

  • The Course:

    18 holes. Open parkland. Relatively flat terrain - easy to walk.

  • Surroundings:

    Woodland and wetland.

  • Designer:

    Jim Fazio

Back
tees
Club
tees
Front
tees
Yards
6849
5839
5019
Par
72
72
72
SSS or slope
73.2
67.8
68.6

Location

Latitude:

27.504503

Longitude:

-80.357748

How to get there:

18 miles N of Port St Lucie

Fairwinds Golf Course

4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.

Est. 1991

Sitting just above St Lucie's "Treasure Coast" Airport, Fairwinds Golf Course is a wonderfully linksy Jim Fazio design. It benefits from a modicum of earthmounding, breaking up the innate flatness of the original terrain.

In keeping with the course's linksy persona, the feel is generally quite open, with a scattering of pines, palms, oaks and pampas grass separating the good-width, nicely rippling fairways.

Big-hitters will enjoy this open and generally forgiving layout, provided they straighten things up in time for the more water threatened back-nine. This second nine-hole loop brings plenty of water into play, courtesy of four small lakes, alongside which several holes are routed. Two of the best are the shortish risk-reward snaking par-5 13th and the seriously water-flanked, right-to-left doglegging par-4 18th.

Around the often large and slightly elevated greens, your bunker play and pitching out of bermuda-grassed sloping lies will be tested. Not all the greens however are bunker defended, with just one greenside bunker in play at the par-4 10th, and none at the ensuing par-3 11th and par-4 12th holes. The posse of sand-traps at the 13th redresses the balance.

With no housing around the course, a peacefully natural environment can be enjoyed here, broken only by the occasional arrival and departures of light aircraft.

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Visitors

Who can play and when?

Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.

Must book in advance.

Green fees

Visitor fee, 18-holes in high season (Jan thru' April): walking $50, with cart $60.

Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].

Other information

Non-metal spike facility. Walking permitted at certain times (early morning and after 2pm)

Practice facilities

Excellent

Did you know?

The Fairwinds Golf Course is owned and operated by St Lucie County .... a public course with private flair. St Lucie County makes up a major part of what is known Florida's "The Treasure Coast". It was here that many treasure-laden Spanish ships sunk off the coast during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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