Banyan Creek Golf Club

Banyan Creek Golf Club sits in Palm City, a community in Martin County along Florida's Treasure Coast, roughly midway between West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce. The course was designed through a collaboration of Charles Ankrom, Arthur Young, and Harry Bowers, a team that worked on several Florida layouts during the residential golf development boom of the late twentieth century. The design reflects the flat to gently rolling terrain typical of South Florida's coastal plain, with routing that incorporates natural wetlands, preserved native vegetation, and the water features common to courses built in this region's low-lying landscape. The layout takes advantage of the area's subtropical setting, with mature palms, live oaks, and the namesake banyan trees framing fairways and providing definition throughout the property. Water comes into play on multiple holes, both as strategic hazards and as part of the environmental preservation requirements that shaped development in this part of Florida. The design balances accessibility for a range of skill levels with enough length and hazard placement to challenge better players, a characteristic of many courses serving both resident members and daily-fee traffic in the region. Banyan Creek operates within the broader context of the Treasure Coast's golf community, an area that saw significant course construction during the 1980s and 1990s as residential development expanded inland from the Atlantic beaches. The course serves both local golfers and visitors exploring the region's collection of layouts between the more densely developed resort corridors to the north and south.