ROYAL POINCIANA GOLF CLUB
🇺🇸 Naples, FL, USA
Designed by David Wallace
The Pines course at Royal Poinciana Golf Club in Naples represents one of two championship layouts at this private facility in Southwest Florida. David Wallace designed the course to complement the property's natural pine and palmetto landscape, routing holes through corridors of mature vegetation characteristic of the region's coastal ecosystems. The layout takes advantage of the relatively flat terrain typical of Naples-area courses while incorporating strategic bunkering and water features to define playing corridors and create decision points throughout the round.
Royal Poinciana Golf Club operates as a member-owned private club and maintains both the Pines and Cypress courses, offering members variety in their golf experience. The club's dual-course setup reflects the growth of Naples as a golf destination during the late twentieth century, when numerous private clubs developed multiple eighteen-hole facilities to serve growing membership bases. The Pines course provides a traditional Florida golf experience with generous fairways framed by native vegetation, elevated greens that require precise approach play, and water hazards that come into play on several holes.
The course conditions and maintenance standards align with expectations for private club golf in Naples, where year-round play and competitive member events drive agronomic programs. The club's amenities and dining facilities serve the social aspects of membership alongside the golf offerings, typical of the private club model prevalent throughout Southwest Florida's established golf communities.
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Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Pines was designed by David Wallace.
Pines at Royal Poinciana Golf Club is listed as private on Course Vaults; guest access is typically restricted.
Par at Pines is 72.
Pines plays 6,794 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Pines is 132.
Pines is a 18-hole course.