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4.1
1659 Reviews (1659)
5 Stars
709
4 Stars
611
3 Stars
217
2 Stars
71
1 Stars
51
Conditions
3.9
Value
3.6
Layout
4.4
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.1
81.9%
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1411 out of 1659 reviews
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3.6
34 Reviews (34)
5 Stars
8
4 Stars
10
3 Stars
12
2 Stars
4
1 Stars
0
Conditions
3.3
Value
2.8
Layout
4.2
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.4
61.8%
Recommend this course
21 out of 34 reviews
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3.9
80 Reviews (80)
5 Stars
29
4 Stars
25
3 Stars
18
2 Stars
6
1 Stars
2
Conditions
3.7
Value
3.3
Layout
4.4
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.5
75.0%
Recommend this course
60 out of 80 reviews
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Course Highlights
Bay Point's course layout consistently earns top marks, delivering a challenging and scenic round with water and sand features throughout. Friendly staff and a smooth pace of play round out a premium golf experience.

About

Holes 18
Type Resort
Par 72
Length 7152 yards
Slope 143
Rating 74.3

Bay Point Golf Club's Nicklaus Course at Sheraton Bay Point Resort is the only Nicklaus Design course in Northwest Florida. The golf course was formerly Lagoon Legend, which had a reputation for being one of the Florida Panhandle's toughest layouts. In 2004, the golf course closed and underwent a major renovation by the Nicklaus Design team. It reopened a year later with rave reviews. The redesign included restructuring the tees, greens, and bunkers and also re-contouring the fairways. The scenic landscape of scrub oaks, towering pines, and saltwater marshes was carefully preserved though. The golf course maintained the challenging aspects of the original but infused a play-ability that makes it accessible to all skill levels. Also like the former course, the new Nicklaus design offers the same stunning views of St. Andrew's Bay. In the fall of 2018, the Nicklaus Course completed a greens conversion to Tif-Eagle Bermuda-grass greens to bring championship greens to a championship course. Bay Point Golf Club has won the Panama City News Herald's "Best of Bay" in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The Nicklaus Course has hosted US Open Local qualifiers and is a home course of the FSU Women's Golf Team and will host their Division 1 Invitational in February of 2020.

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Course Details

Year Built 1986
Greens Tif-Eagle Ultra-Dwarf Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Bruce Devlin (1986) Nicklaus (2005) Rick Robbins Gary Nicklaus (2005)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

Available Sports

Tennis
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Reviews

4.1
1659 Reviews (1659)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 20
Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 41
Bunkers 36
Forced Carries 34
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 34
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 26
A Weekend Splurge 23
This Course's Location is:
At a Resort 33
Convenient to the City 24
Worth the Drive 22

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Reviews 7
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Beautiful course

Beautiful course on the water with lots of water and sand traps. Well taken care of and polite staff.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greg’s round

Lot of sand on the greens and small aeration holes!

Definitely resort pricing, but I was able to get a Hot Deal thru Golf Now.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Long Challenging Course

1st time playing Bay Point, but I will be back. Pretty long challenging course, greens had just been aerated so putting was beyond challenging but its a necessity. Typical FL course, lots of sand and water, be ready to layup and play it safe.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 65
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Previously Played

Always a Great experience

Even though they had just punched the greens, they still rolled true and were smooth.

The fairways were perfect and the layout is very fun.

Shot -2 for the day for a guy 76 years old

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Beautiful

The views on this course are beautiful. Greens had been recently aerated which we knew when we booked it. Got a great deal on GolfNow. Would definitely play it again.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not bad

Considering the greens were aerated a few days ago, the greens were playable. The course was dry in the fairways and it didn’t seem like mowing was kept up regularly because there were fairway areas that were a little overgrown and others where the grass clippings were evident. Overall the course was playable and I really enjoyed the layout and pace of play. BTW, this not a $100 per round course.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
First Time Playing

Challenging layout

Unfortunately for the green fees that are being charged, the actual greens are not in the best of shape.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Pushing pace of play when your 30 minutes ahead of schedule

As a local I okay here when I have friends and family come to visit because it’s a nice hard course. The course its self was in good condition, the inside employees were very nice, the starter was as well. 1st negative, you can’t drive the cart 50 yards in the parking lot but you can cross the highway four times in the cart on the course, makes zero sense. We had a marshal when we were on hole 12 tell us to pick up our pace, at said time we were 2 hrs and 40 minutes well ahead of the schedule of time with no on the hole behind us or in front of us. In telling us to pick up our pace he was very unprofessional in doing so, when I say unprofessional I mean was a total ( fill in the blank because this site won’t allow me to say what he was)our foursome was so stunned that we didn’t say anything to him, no response. He was so vile that it consumed us for the rest of the round. We finished our round in 3hrs &40 minutes, 30 minutes ahead of their 4hr 10 minute schedule. After the round I am ashamed to say my inner redneck came out as we confronted about his unprofessional manner. If this course is more concerned about how many people they can push through to get their $$ isn’t going to have to worry about pace of play because no one is going to be playing there! Everyone on the staff was great but one horrible person destroying the others hard work. I won’t say don’t play here but with no gps in carts and an it will not accept the name this marshal deserves pushing people and costing a local or tourist $150 to play an $80 course, I won’t be back.

Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Needs time

Came to PCB for vacation and played bay point. The 1st year i played it was awesome. Second year they dug up greens and had temp greens for same price. Don’t play this year the course was really bad. The fairways looked like they spot sprayed for weeds. Carts had grass killer on wheels because there are many yellow tracks through the course. The greens are horrible. It you make a put it was luck. Very bouncy. One of the guys I played with was a member and said they air rated the greens twice. With the big holes. That’s why it was so bumpy. I would recommend spending 147.00 to play the course in the condition it’s in. Give it a month and may be better.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Bay Point Nicklaus GC 7/9/25

The course was in good shape. The greens were bumpy. All of the hydration stations were full. Thankful for this. GolfNow rate was $75. Strict rule that if you book through GolfNow, you won’t go off early

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course was great, but…

Overall, we really enjoyed the course. The unfortunate thing is too many golfers refuse to repair their divots on the greens, causing others to not only read the slope of the greens but also attempt to navigate around or through the craters. My wife and I had a later tee time, and there was also an issue with people coming from their condos and horse playing on the course. Our last three holes had people on them, hitting balls. On two of the three holes, the guys were hitting from the direction of the greens towards the tee boxes. So just be aware, if your plans during the day cause you to need a later tee time, you’ll probably run into others that didn’t pay to play, goofing off in your fairways.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great Course

The course was in excellent condition pace of play was very good!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
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