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Brentwood Course

Brentwood Golf Course

Jacksonville, FL, USA
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9 holesPar 342,514 yds31.1/98

About this course

Brentwood Golf Course in Jacksonville, Florida, is a Donald Ross design that reflects the architect's work during his prolific period in the early twentieth century. Ross, who shaped hundreds of courses across America from his base at Pinehurst, brought his characteristic design principles to this northeastern Florida layout. The course features the rolling terrain and strategic bunkering typical of Ross's approach, with greens that exhibit the subtle contours and crowned surfaces for which he became known. The Jacksonville setting places Brentwood within a region where Ross completed several designs during his career, taking advantage of the natural sandy soils and native vegetation common to coastal Florida. The routing likely incorporates the moderate elevation changes available in the area, creating variety in hole presentation and shot requirements. Ross favored courses that rewarded thoughtful play over pure distance, emphasizing approach shot accuracy and the ability to work the ball into well-defended green complexes. As a municipal facility, Brentwood serves the Jacksonville golfing community as an accessible Ross design, part of the architect's legacy of courses ranging from exclusive private clubs to public layouts. The course represents the kind of straightforward, strategic golf that defined American course architecture in the classic era, with design elements that have likely been maintained or restored to preserve Ross's original intent. The layout provides a connection to golf's golden age of design within Jacksonville's urban landscape.

Quick facts

Location
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Access
Public
Year built
1923
Holes
9
Designer
Donald Ross
Par
34
Length
2,514 yards
Difficulty
31.1/98
Course Vaults score
4.4

Getting there

Most visitors arrive via Jacksonville International Airport, a straightforward fifteen-minute drive north of the city center, with Brentwood Golf Course situated just beyond downtown in the Brentwood neighborhood along the St. Johns River's western bank. The route from the airport follows Interstate 95 south before peeling off into tree-lined residential streets where midcentury ranch homes give way to glimpses of the river's broad, tannin-dark waters. This is old Jacksonville - quiet, unpretentious, and deeply rooted - where the course has occupied its riverside parcel since 1959, offering a modest but genuine slice of Florida golf history far removed from the resort corridors to the south.

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Common questions about Brentwood

Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.

Brentwood has a Course Vaults score of 4.4 out of 10 based on 9 logged golfers.

Brentwood was designed by Donald Ross.

Yes. Brentwood is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.

Par at Brentwood is 34.

Brentwood plays 2,514 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.

The slope rating at Brentwood is 98.

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