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Egwani Farms Golf Course: On the Little River with views of the Smoky Mountains
Source: Golf Publisher Syndication

Egwani Farms Golf Course in Rockford, Tenn. is just a tad outside of oh-wow viewing range of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Landscape, price and playability make Legacy Golf Links a tasty Pinehurst-area cocktail
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Legacy Golf Links, near Pinehurst, N.C., is one of those golf courses that mixes playability, conditioning and aesthetics into a nearly perfect cocktail. It beckons to the average golfer, whispers in your ear, tells you it's okay if you're a little erratic today.

Crandon Park Golf Course on Key Biscayne loved by crocodiles, iguanas and politicians
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Crandon Park is one of the best deals in South Florida, when you combine price and the quality of the experience. The course can be a handful, especially if you play it from the back tees, with the near-constant wind that comes sweeping over the unprotected layout.

Patience prevails at historic Tenby Golf Club in Wales
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At Tenby Golf Club in Wales, a little restraint goes a long way. Keep your tee shot in the fairway, and the course is much more enjoyable. Otherwise, you'll spend the day looking for lost balls.

With Emerald Greens, Tampa Bay gets first "boutique" golf resort
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Tampa's newest boutique golf resort, Emerald Greens boasts 27 holes of Dan Maples-designed golf (and positively decadent air-conditioned golf carts!), plus luxury villas, a spa, restaurants, tennis and aquatic centers, and more.

Cleveland Heights Golf Course a little oasis in downtown Lakeland
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Cleveland Heights Golf Course is a little oasis in the middle of bustling, growing Lakeland, with lakes, ponds and the sort of critters you don't normally associate with a downtown. Peacocks, alligators, geese and hawks look at home amid the water and the moss-draped oaks.

Golf at The Balsams in New Hampshire is truly panoramic
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The Panorama course at The Balsams resort is a classic Donald Ross-designed golf course that is one of the oldest and most storied in New England golf

Highlands Reserve Golf Club near Lakeland: Swamp golfing in the hills of central Florida
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In the Florida golf scene, there's a need to stand out from the crowd. Highlands Reserve, like several Sunshine State courses lucky enough to be above the fray, literally, likes to highlight its elevation.

Pigeon Forge's Gatlinburg Municipal Golf Course will make you forget about Dollywood
Source: Golf Publisher Syndication

Located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Gatlinburg Municipal Golf Course is one of those Smoky Mountain courses that is worth taking time off from Dollywood. Gatlinburg wows with views and tantalizes with a mixture of ease and difficulty.

Head to the retirees' Mountain Vista Golf Club for solid budget Palm Springs-area golf
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If someone suggests you should play Mountain Vista Golf Club, you'll think they're crazy. If you actually do it, you'll be almost crazy thankful. It's one of the coolest secrets, a little Palm Springs insider's play that will add some spice to your trip stories.

Revitalized Rancho Las Palmas a surprise in Palm Springs golf
Source: Golf Publisher Syndication

There was a time Rancho Las Palmas Resort was lost among the golf courses in the Palm Springs area. But a new ownership group has the course on track for a 180-degree turnaround. Golf here is suddenly in the Coachella Valley's big leagues.

Panther Creek Golf Club: Come and take your medicine at Jacksonville's newest brute
Source: Golf Publisher Syndication

First Coast golf already has the PGA Tour playground Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass, but the new Panther Creek Golf Club in the wilds of western Jacksonville might be an even bigger brute, and a blast to play.

Emerald Bay is one of those Destin golf courses that knows how to use Choctawatchee Bay
Source: Golf Publisher Syndication

Emerald Bay is one of those pretty golf courses situated on the north side of U.S. 98 as you cruise through sunny Destin, with the Gulf of Mexico to the south and Choctawatchee Bay to the north.

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