Medalist Golf Club - Florida, U.S.A.

The Medalist Golf Club is a demanding private course laid out in the marshes adjoining Florida's Hobe Sound. Designed by Greg Norman and Pete Dye, the Medalist opened in 1994. The wide fairways run through ramrods of pines to small, angled greens, requiring a number of forced carries over marshes and waste bunkers frocked with ruby red grasses. Norman has had a close association with the Medalist, continuing to revise the design over the years. The course is known in particular for the sophisticated chipping areas around its greens, which have become something of a Norman trademark. The old-fashioned sod-walled bunkering is also unusual, particularly for a course in Florida, but reflects the deep affinity of Dye and Norman for traditional links golf.

Red Stick Golf Club - Florida, U.S.A.

Red Stick is a private, high-end club located by Kings Highway in Vero Beach that opened in November 2000. The founder1 sought to create a "modern classic" and brought Rees Jones on board to design the course on a 320-acre site that includes part of the piney dune ridge running from Sebastian to Jupiter Hills, as well as seams of wetlands blanketed by white fountain, pink muhly, and marsh grasses. Jones routed the opening holes through the wetlands, followed by a pine barren sequence, and then sculpted rolling features through what had been an open, flatter area. The pine barren portion of the course, which runs from holes seven through 14, was enhanced with the planting of almost a thousand oak, slash pine, and loblolly trees, while fill from the three lakes that were built on the course was used to add dimension to the finishing holes. The club takes its name from the Red sticks, Creek Indian warriors who carried red sticks into battle and were allies of the Seminoles during Florida's Indian wars.