Golfing The Gulf Shores
Gulf Shores & Orange Beach - Alabama
By Brian Weis
Alabama's Gulf Coast is a golf and beach vacation destination located on a barrier island directly between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. The resort townships of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach comprise the area's 32-miles of sugar-white sand beaches.
Creatively designed and strategically placed, our courses have been designed by some of the greatest names in golf-Arnold Palmer, Bruce Devlin, Jerry Pate, Robert Von Hagge and Earl Stone. With over 200 holes to play, we've got the best game on the coast. From Scottish-style links to beachside greens, we promise to meet and challenge every level of skill.
Travel - Airport Options:
Pensacola Regional Airport (PNS), Pensacola, Florida (45 miles away)
Mobile Regional Airport (MOB), Mobile, Alabama (60 miles away)
Nightlife
Florabama billed as The Last Great American Road House. It is a party atmosphere with live music every day of the year.
Cool Dining Experience:
LuLu's at Homeport
Lucy Buffet's Family Restaurant. ("Jimmy's Crazy Sista")
Enjoy sipping on a "Bama Breeze" and savor on a Cheese Burger in Paradise.
Must See Sight Seeing:
Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida - Home of the Blue Angles
Watch the Blue Angles practice most Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. It is free and open to the public.
Alabama Travel Links
Golfing In Gulf Shores - Course Summary
There is a full weeks worth of golf in a 30 mile radius.
Cotton Creek at Craft Farms - Arnold Palmer Signature Design with generous fairways lined by Southern Hardwoods, undulating greens and a championship test from 7,028 yards, and owned and operated by Honours Golf.
Cypress Bend at Craft Farms - The sister Honours Golf property to Cotton Creek, the Arnold Palmer Signature Design meanders through cord-grass accented lakes which come into play on nearly every hole.
Glenlakes Golf Club - Scottish-style links course designed by Von Hagge and known for its extensive bunkering and postage-stamp greens.
Kiva Dunes - A "Top 100 Course in America" by Golf Digest, the Jerry Pate design is the only beachfront resort course in Gulf Shores.
Peninsula Golf and Racquet Club - Owned and operated by Honours Golf, the 27-hole facility offers chilled apples on the tee. The 830-acre park includes 30 lakes and fairways surrounded by Bon Secour Wildlife Preserve.
Rock Creek Golf Club - Also owned by Honours Golf and boasting rolling terrain and fairways lined by pines, the Earl Stone design overlooks freshwater wetlands and the Rock Creek basin.
TimberCreek Golf Club - This 27-hole design was crafted by Earl Stone and feels like an inland Carolina course with fairways lined by loblolly pines, dogwoods and magnolias.
The Golf Club of the Wharf - Formerly known as the Gulf Shores Golf Club, this was the Gulf Shores' first course. Opened it 1960, it was redesigned by Jay and Carter Morrish in 2005.
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About: Brian Weis
Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.
As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.
Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.
In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.
On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.
Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.
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