Country Club of Silver Springs Shores
About
Opened in 1969, the Country Club at Silver Springs Shores has been host to a variety of mini-tour and U.S. Open Section qualifying events. It is known for having some of the fastest and most severe greens in the area. Desmond Muirhead, a longtime associate of Jack Nicklaus, designed the golf course, giving it a different character on the front and back nines. The first half of the golf course is a traditional parkland layout that mixes native trees and wide-open meadows. The back nine is a true Florida-style golf course with water coming into play on six holes. Country Club at Silver Springs Shores finishes with one of its toughest water holes, a par 5 starts with an intimidating tee shot past a massive lake that wraps around the landing area. Many locals consider Silver Springs Shores to be one of the best public golf courses in the Ocala area.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 72 | 6935 yards | 74.1 | 130 |
| Blue | 72 | 6539 yards | 72.4 | 128 |
| White | 72 | 6151 yards | 70.3 | 127 |
| Green | 72 | 5465 yards | 66.7 | 118 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5188 yards | 69.5 | 118 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold M: 74.3/136 | 399 | 365 | 385 | 495 | 201 | 368 | 505 | 170 | 400 | 3288 | 460 | 507 | 449 | 217 | 380 | 430 | 205 | 414 | 585 | 3647 | 6935 |
| Blue M: 72.3/132 W: 77.6/138 | 382 | 353 | 373 | 475 | 187 | 348 | 479 | 157 | 369 | 3123 | 414 | 493 | 420 | 183 | 345 | 400 | 190 | 399 | 572 | 3416 | 6539 |
| White M: 70.3/130 W: 75.7/134 | 361 | 342 | 356 | 451 | 174 | 327 | 445 | 144 | 347 | 2947 | 378 | 477 | 393 | 158 | 328 | 378 | 175 | 362 | 555 | 3204 | 6151 |
| Green M: 67.6/126 W: 72.2/126 | 350 | 305 | 311 | 407 | 160 | 303 | 437 | 117 | 332 | 2722 | 330 | 435 | 343 | 140 | 290 | 340 | 163 | 350 | 442 | 2833 | 5555 |
| Silver M: 65.8/122 W: 70.2/121 | 334 | 295 | 295 | 401 | 134 | 292 | 403 | 97 | 315 | 2566 | 282 | 422 | 293 | 113 | 283 | 312 | 143 | 338 | 432 | 2618 | 5184 |
| Black M: 63.4/118 W: 67.3/115 | 290 | 228 | 211 | 356 | 134 | 250 | 390 | 97 | 264 | 2220 | 273 | 368 | 284 | 113 | 253 | 272 | 143 | 275 | 432 | 2413 | 4633 |
| Handicap | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 3 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 12 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 3 |
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Nice Restroom! Photo submitted by daryltomsa on 03/12/2025
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UGH! Photo submitted by daryltomsa on 03/12/2025
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Wild Turkey Photo submitted by Cxnunzi on 03/20/2021
Great pace
Great place to come on Easter. Fast pace and great conditions for an Easter morning. They Easter eggs on the course with goodies in them. Nice touch!! Played in 3 and half hours which was great. a friendly staff and always great prices on drink at the 19th hole.
Fabulous greens
We enjoyed our round. Only complaint is the cart paths are horrible, all broken up.
Great tough fourse
Greens are awesome we're just scrapped but still good
Silver springs golf course
Well, the people are friendly courses in fairly good shape. The rain has been scarce this winter course doing good shape go out and enjoy the course
Cart paths
Cart paths need some repair. The course I self was in excellent condition. Enjoyed playing there
Nice layout
The layout of the course can be a challenge. Location off the tees is important. Greens are in great shape. Fairway needs help and tee boxes cut and more grass. Staff was very friendly and helpful.
Fool me once, shame on you,
This was my 2nd time to play here in the last few weeks and I like the layout BUT I yet to see a ranger or get to finish all 18! The first time I bailed after 5 1/2 hours and today I was 3.5 hours in on the 13 when an armada of golfers flooded the back nine for a men’s group and the implied I needed to let them have the course…. Fool me twice shame on me…
Going backwards !!!
Just keeps getting worse!!! OVER BOOKED is an understatement, My PRE PAID tee time made 2 days earlier was not available when I arrived. Staff said something happened but we can move you up to a different tee time, like they did ME a favor , Then I had to wait 20-25 minutes for a cart…so the later tee time never really mattered anyway…. I quite after one hour and 45 minutes after finishing 5 (yes 5) saw we were going to be the 3rd group on 6.. Tried to take to staff at the pro shop .Staff smiled and said , ya it’s slow out there.
It was a good day.
Silver Springs could use some TLC. The Greens are perfect. The are well groomed, roll well and are challenging to read. However the rest of the course could use some work. The tee boxes need to be leveled and some are in less than good shape. The fairways could use some grass as well as the rough. I like a rough that punishes a bad shot. The cart paths should be completely redone. I can't say anything about the sand traps as it had rained the night before and there was more water than sand. They are bone jarring. All in all, I like the course and will continue to play it simply because it is challenging. I hope some money is used to improve it.
Worth the money
Greens and fairways are very good. Restrooms are really poor. Cart girl is very good. Tee boxes could use yardage markers for each box. Signs to next tee box could be helpful. Cart paths need resurfacing. Starter was friendly and helpful with good tips about certain holes and greens. A little slow pace, but doable. Gas carts with USB ports.
It has take 5hrs to play and when we arrived we were told that they have 3 foursomes before us !
Very very slow pace of play…in front of us they were 2 players good golfers and in front of them 3 carts with 5 players..they were playing some shots sometime….we were 4…they do not have a ranger to check or accelerate the pace of play….the only positive things is that the green are wonderful and we have been paired with a very nice Chinese couples. The amenities on the golf course could have been more clean.