Daytona Beach's Spring Golf Season Prepares to Kick into High Gear By Brian Weis

Daytona Beach's Spring Golf Season Prepares to Kick into High Gear

Three Outstanding Golf Packages Are Helping Drive Interest in Destination

By Brian Weis

With the Daytona 500 less than two weeks away, the eyes of the sports world will be turning to Central Florida, but for golfers, the end of the Great American Race is the just the beginning of the good times.

Home to 28 courses, Daytona Beach's spring golf season offers players a multitude of packages that are long on quality and value. With average high temperatures of 71 in February, 74 in March, 79 in April and 85 in May, Daytona Beach's weather is as appealing as its golf offerings.

With the 2018 golf season on the immediate horizon, here are a sampling of Daytona Beach packages players are flocking to:

* The appropriately named "Feels Like Home" package is a 3-night, 3-round deal that features accommodations at Homewood Suites and golf at Cypress Head Golf Club, the Jones Course at LPGA International and Cypress Knoll Golf & Country Club. The Jones Course is, by consensus, one of Florida's best public courses, Cypress Head is a municipal course that offers a premium round, while Cypress Knoll provides a country club experience. The "Feels Like Home" package starts at $370.

* Plaza Resort & Spa, an oceanfront resort property, is offering a 3-night, 3-round deal that includes golf at Halifax Plantation, the Hills Course at LPGA International and Indigo Lakes Golf Club. To put the quality of that trio into perspective, the Hills Course and Indigo Lakes have hosted LPGA Tour events, and Halifax Plantation has long been regarded as one of the area's best. The Plaza Resort & Spa deal starts at $370.

* Holiday Inn Daytona Beach LPGA Blvd., located just minutes from Daytona Beach's most acclaimed courses, has a 3-night, 3-round special that starts at just $337. The package includes golf at Spruce Creek Country Club, home of America's largest fly-in community, the Hills Course at LPGA International and Cypress Head.
Best of all, Daytona Beach's golf package combinations are nearly endless (and interchangeable). The area is also home to three courses that are part of the Historic Florida Golf Trail - New Smyrna Golf Club, The South Course at Daytona Beach Golf Club and Riviera Country Club - in addition a multitude of modern 4-star designs, such as Victoria Hills and Venetian Bay.

Whether players are looking for classic golf course architecture - New Smyrna Golf Course and Daytona Beach's South Course are Donald Ross designs - or want a more contemporary test, Daytona Beach has something for everyone.

For more information on the Daytona Beach golf scene, go to DaytonaBeach.golf.

Revised: 02/06/2018 - Article Viewed 10,746 Times

About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.