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Panama City Beach is better known for its sugar-white sand and emerald Gulf waters than for golf, but the Nicklaus Course sits within that vacation-resort ecosystem as a destination layout bearing one of the sport's most recognizable names. Jack Nicklaus has spent decades lending his design signature to courses that reward strategic thinking over raw power — wide enough to welcome resort guests, yet shaped with enough movement and risk-reward framing to keep better players engaged.
The Florida Panhandle's coastal terrain offers designers a distinct palette: sandy soil, scrub vegetation, the occasional water hazard fed by the region's abundant rainfall, and a humidity that makes the air feel thick in summer. A Nicklaus-branded layout in this setting typically works with that low, open landscape, using contouring, bunkering placement, and green complexes to manufacture challenge where dramatic elevation cannot.
For visitors, it functions squarely as a resort experience — a round framed by Gulf Coast sunshine that completes a beach getaway with a proper 18-hole outing under a name that carries genuine pedigree.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 · men | 7,053 | 74.5 | 137 | 72 |
| #1 · women | 7,053 | 80.8 | 150 | 73 |
| #2 · men | 6,377 | 70.9 | 131 | 72 |
| #2 · women | 6,377 | 76.9 | 142 | 73 |
| #3 · men | 5,948 | 69.2 | 125 | 72 |
| #3 · women | 5,948 | 74.5 | 137 | 73 |
| #3 / #4 · men | 5,275 | 66 | 114 | 72 |
| #3 / #4 · women | 5,275 | 71 | 123 | 73 |
| #4 · men | 4,948 | 64.3 | 106 | 72 |
| #4 · women | 4,948 | 68.8 | 118 | 73 |
| #5 · men | 3,841 | 60.2 | 98 | 72 |
| #5 · women | 3,841 | 62.4 | 106 | 73 |
| #6 · men | 3,132 | 58 | 92 | 72 |
| #6 · women | 3,132 | 58.6 | 97 | 73 |
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