Play enough golf in Florida and you come to learn a lot about what it looks like: flat, fairways with palm rings, apartments, cart paths, repetitions. There is a reason for stereotypes. But they didn’t have any swings at Cabot Citrus Farm.
The destination resort of Florida’s Natural Coast is a historic orange-wood area, and Cabot Citrus Farm is nestled on rolling, sandy pine, palm and mossy oaks. The atmosphere is high-end but low-key. The amenities are modern, but the property has an unresolved backward air. Golf is a mixture of classic and modern, unlike the state of sunshine, showing all the beauty and diversity in the game.
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Anchor all courses are four courses, with two dishes (Habitat and Karoo) being 18 hole layouts, providing compelling research by comparison. Perched in inspiration more traditional. A rare collaboration from three architects from different companies (Mike Nuzzo, Kyle Franz and Rod Whitman) and received an input from former construction editor Ran Morrissett of Golf, which gently moves over the spacious landscape with a wide, insured corridor and rustic bunkering, calling on people to Sandbelt Mind of Alister Mackenzie at Sandbelt Market Mind Allister Mackenzie at Allister Mackenzie. Karoo is a wilderness sibling, cutting sandy waste and tiny vegetables with rumbled hills, shrugging in every direction, huge, huge outline vegetables. Frannz, who designed it alone, described it as “adventure golf”.
If habitat and karoo are all golf balls you can eat, then squeeze and wedges offer the game in bite-sized parts. Both are short courses – the former is a charming, 10-hole 3 and par 4, the latter is a 19-hole PAR-3 course that requires bets, but is equally perfect for barefoot cocktails. Like the state-of-the-art practice range and short play areas, the wedges are illuminated for nighttime play.
As the name suggests, Cabot Citrus Farms is part of Cabot Portfolio, a series of golf and real estate developments born in Nova Scotia, with Cabot Cape Breton, and since then expanded from Canada to the Caribbean, Scottland and beyond. To align with its brand, Citrus Farm is full of scope in the extra scope outside. Dining options range from Grange Hall’s farm restaurant to dining table cuisine, a core restaurant that offers breakfast, lunch and dinner to wooden pizza on the porch, an outdoor gathering place on the high side of the property with picnic tables and Adirondack chairs.
Meanwhile, the surrounding properties also invite a range of non-golf activities: hiking, cycling, sauvignon shooting, archery, archery, bass fishing, etc., although there is no local rule that does not object to drinking with partners.
On a recent Cabot Citrus Farms trip, Golf.com sampled all of this and experienced a variety of routes, food, accommodation and more on Florida destinations. For an in-depth description of our visit, check out the YouTube video above.
