We have had 1000's of requests about golf in the state of Florida over the past few years and have decided to begin to give you this kind of travel information.  We will do our best to provide you with vacation travel stories which, whether your traveling with your family, your wife or significant other, will focus on golf as well as other points of interest, accommodations, restaurants, etc. in the areas featured in each story.  Our concept is that if you want to visit the area covered as a golf buddy group...only out to play golf, you can still enjoy and learn from the story, but simply eliminate the sightseeing parts.

We start our initial feature story with the area on Florida's northeast coast, better known as Florida's First Coast. 

This is an area that runs along the Atlantic Ocean for approximately 100 miles, from the Georgia border, south to Palm Coast, and is uniquely an area of "firsts". 

We decided to start here because it is the "first coast" within the state of Florida that one would encounter while traveling south along the Atlantic seaboard.  At its northernmost point, the city of Fernandino Beach on Amelia Island became Florida's "first" resort in the mid-19th century.  And it is an area steeped in history, home to the city of St. Augustine, the "first" permanent European settlement in America in 1565, making it America's oldest city - 42 years before the English colonized Jamestown, and 55 years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

It is a diverse area that includes the metropolitan city of Jacksonville (the most populated city in Florida with more than three quarters of a million residents), the quiet shores of Amelia Island and Ponte Vedra Beach, and of course, historic St. Augustine.

Here you will find accommodations of every sort, great restaurants, unique shopping, beautiful, pristine white sand beaches, among the prettiest in all of Florida.  It also offers fabulous deep-sea and freshwater fishing, as well as sailing, kayaking, terrific tennis facilities, and above all else, at least as far as the golfer is concerned, spectacular golf.  Offering an array of amazing courses, more than 30 wonderful tracts, including some of the most prestigious and scenic golf courses in the world, designed by some of America's finest architects.

It is home to the World Golf Village and the World Golf Hall of Fame located just off Rte. 95, in St. Augustine.  It is also home to the PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, and also home to one of the most famous golf holes on the PGA tour, #17 at TPC Sawgrass which is one of the world's most photographed holes.

This is the story of a husband and wife golfing trip with a some sightseeing and relaxing (beaches and pools) on the side.  We rarely golf together and we decided to try 4 courses in 4 days together and see if we would still be speaking to each other at the end of the trip. We began by flying out of NY's JFK to Jacksonville, rented a car, and drove to the World Golf Village, about 30 miles south of the airport.

The World Golf Village is a a 6,300-acre golf mecca and premier vacation destination resort and residential community in St. Augustine that is home to the World Golf Hall of Fame. The Village offers a range of features and amenities that appeal specifically to golfers and those with an appreciation for the game's time-honored traditions.  It also features two 18-hole championship golf courses with special ties to the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Slammer & Squire, and the King & Bear.  It also offers a state-of-the-art learning center the PGA TOUR Golf Academy, featuring all-weather hitting bays that sit in the shadow of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Top-rated instructors incorporate three teaching and video analysis systems into the lessons that range from private instruction, two- to five-day golf schools, as well as outing and clinics for groups of all sizes.

The Neighborhoods of World Golf Village offer distinctive residential communities ranging in price from the $140s to more than $1-million. Community amenities include first-rate schools, shopping, community parks and world-class entertainment.