South at Shadow Wood Country Club

Shadow Wood Country Club's South Course is a Bob Cupp design located in Bonita Springs, along Florida's southwest Gulf Coast. Cupp, who worked extensively with Jack Nicklaus before establishing his own practice, brought his characteristic attention to strategic variety and natural integration to this layout. The course opened as part of Shadow Wood's multi-course community development in the late 1980s, serving a private membership in one of the region's established country club neighborhoods.

The routing takes advantage of Southwest Florida's native landscape, incorporating wetlands, pine and palmetto vegetation, and the area's modest elevation changes. Cupp's design philosophy emphasized playability across different skill levels while rewarding thoughtful course management. Water features appear throughout the layout, typical of the region's golf architecture, and the bunkering reflects Cupp's preference for clear visual definition and strategic placement rather than purely penal hazards.

Shadow Wood operates as a private equity club with multiple courses on the property, and the South Course serves as one component of the overall golf offering. The club caters to a seasonal and year-round membership drawn largely from the Naples-Bonita Springs corridor. The facility includes traditional country club amenities, and the South Course provides a complementary experience to the property's other layouts, each designed by different architects to offer variety within the membership's golf options.