The Bayou Club is the only Tom Fazio Signature Course located at the heart of Largo, Pinellas County, Florida. Founded in 1991, this private championship course has eye-catching frames, old-style bunkers, and soft-flow elevation changes around green slopes.
Outstanding in layout, the course gently weaves its way through oaks as well as pines, and on all but two of the course's 18-holes, marshes and bayous also come into play. Smoothly incorporated into the lush surroundings, the course affords players with occasional sightings of the protected wildlife which makes the golf experience truly more enjoyable and exciting.
Aside from its celebrated architect, the Bayou Club golf course is renowned for its verdant Bermuda fairways and Champion Dwarf Bermuda grass greens which are also used as the putting surface on 12 PGA Tour venues including Pinehurst No. 2. The Bayou Club has played host to the Eckerd Pro-Am where 20 PGA professionals. including Gary Player, Ian Baker-Finch, and Jeff Maggert, paired up with local club counterparts.
Golfers especially look forward to holes 15 to 18, referred to as the “Final Four of Golf,” and the homestretch of this Par 72, 7,085-yard Bayou Club centerpiece is said to be reminiscent of PGA Tour golf courses. The Bayou Club also offers tour-quality practice facilities, with a 2.5-acre, two-sided grass driving range tee and a short practice game area with two large greens. These facilities are manned by a staff of experienced PGA teaching professionals who also conduct clinics.
With special pricing for members, the club's fully stocked golf shop makes branded game essentials readily available. For added convenience, bag, private cart and pull cart storage, locker rooms, shoeshine, and spike repair services are all provided as well. New members may also join the Bayou Club's active associations which initiate member-only tournaments and fellowships. Plus, the Bayou Club also offers first-class amenities for members who are into fitness, tennis, swimming, or simply dining.
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Fully integrated into a 400-acre, expansive natural reserve and acclaimed signature golf course, the gated Bayou Club community's approximately 400 golf homes dot the banks of numerous lakes and the fringes of the course's fairways and greens. Every golf residence looks out to calming flora and foliage and fascinatingly diverse wildlife.
Residents who are also members of the private Bayou Club have exclusive access to the championship course designed by Tom Fazio. Members also have access to lighted tennis and pickleball courts, two swimming pools, a fully equipped fitness center that's operational 24/7, and dining and social functions at the fabulous clubhouse.
Family-friendly, the Bayou Club has something for everyone. Members, their spouses or domestic partners, and their unmarried children under twenty-three can also avail of personal fitness training, golf, tennis, and swimming instruction, as well as all kinds of training camps. Experience the perfect blend of fun, leisure, and a sense of belonging here at Bayou Club!
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