Streamsong Red

Few American resort courses have arrived with as much fanfare as the Streamsong Red, which opened in 2012 alongside its sibling layout, the Blue, on a former phosphate mining site in central Florida's Polk County. The transformation of that scarred industrial land into one of the most celebrated golf destinations in the country is genuinely remarkable — the mining operations left behind dramatic contours, vast sandy waste areas, and ridgelines that bear almost no resemblance to the flat Florida terrain most golfers expect. Architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw seized on that raw material with characteristic restraint, letting the land dictate the routing and producing something that feels more like a Scottish links than a Sunshine State resort.