Southwest Florida's Lee County is serious golf country — the corridor running from Naples north through Bonita Springs and Fort Myers is one of the densest concentrations of courses in the state, drawing snowbirds and retirees who play year-round in a climate that rarely asks much of you before October or after April. Bonita Springs sits comfortably in that sweet spot, a low-key community between the more polished resort scenes of Naples to the south and Cape Coral to the north.
The name Bay Island suggests a layout shaped by water — not unusual in this corner of Florida, where developers historically sculpted courses out of flat terrain by moving earth and routing fairways around lakes, canals, and fingers of brackish wetland. That geography tends to produce courses where water is less a dramatic hazard than a constant presence, demanding straight, committed golf over forced carries and along tight corridors.
A par-72 layout in this region almost certainly plays as a full-length test, though the flat terrain keeps it walkable and the open skies mean wind off the Gulf becomes the most honest variable from day to day.
