Lekarica Hills Golf Club occupies rolling terrain in Lake Wales, a citrus-growing region in central Florida's Ridge area, where natural elevation changes are more pronounced than in much of the state. The course was designed by Wayne Stiles and John Van Kleek, a Massachusetts-based partnership active primarily in the 1920s and 1930s. Stiles, who trained under Donald Ross, and Van Kleek collaborated on several New England layouts before working on projects farther south. Their design approach typically emphasized strategic bunkering and routing that followed natural land contours rather than imposing artificial features. The Lake Wales area sits along the Lake Wales Ridge, an ancient sand ridge that provides the highest elevations in peninsular Florida. This topography allows for more varied hole corridors and sightlines than the flat coastal plains common elsewhere in the state. Courses in this region often incorporate citrus groves, native scrub vegetation, and views across the surrounding lake country. Stiles and Van Kleek designs from this era generally featured moderate length by modern standards, with an emphasis on positioning over power and greens that rewarded accurate approach play. The partnership's work has received renewed attention in recent decades as golf architecture historians have documented Golden Age designers beyond the most famous names. Lekarica Hills represents their work in Florida's interior, where the landscape offered opportunities distinct from the coastal sites that dominated the state's early golf development.