Few addresses in American golf carry the social weight of La Gorce Country Club. Founded in 1927 and routed through the barrier island landscape of Miami Beach, the club takes its name from Oliver La Gorce, a longtime president of the National Geographic Society and one of the founding pillars of the membership. Donald Ross designed the original layout, and his fingerprints — subtle crowned greens, strategic bunkering, a routing that rewards local knowledge — have shaped how the course plays for nearly a century.
The setting defines the experience as much as the design. Miami Beach's tropical humidity, sea breezes off Biscayne Bay, and the kind of lush, year-round green that only South Florida's climate can sustain give the rounds here a sensory texture unlike anything in the continental mainland's colder latitudes. Bermuda turf bakes under serious sun, and afternoon storms can rewrite a card in minutes.
La Gorce has long been a fixture of Miami's private club hierarchy — a place where the golf is genuinely serious but the culture around it is unmistakably South Florida.
