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Banyan
West Palm Beach, Florida
- Address1393 Lyons Rd., West Palm Beach, Florida (FL) 33411, USA
The course at Banyan Golf Club opened for play in 1973 and Joe Lee designed it. On first seeing the property, the architect proclaimed: “This place is majestic! All you have to do is listen and the land will tell you what to do.”
Lee imaginatively routed Banyan around a series of lakes where the holes head in all compass directions and the fairways are refreshingly devoid of homes.
There have, of course, been some changes to the course since 1973; many trees have been lost due to tornado and hurricane damage and local architect John Sanford (who learned to play golf at nearby Banyan Cay Resort) completed minor enhancements here in 2012.
Six years later in 2018, the club invested $3m in a course renovation programme, overseen by Jupiter-based architect Kipp Schulties. All green complexes were refashioned and both forward and back tees were added to cater for all levels of golfers. Banyan can now be played from 4,800 yards to more than 7,200 yards.
Schulties also made significant changes to holes 5,10,16 and 18, adding a water hazard to the front of the green at #5, elevating the greensite by almost 15 feet at #10, tree clearance and lake expansion at #16 and relocating the green complex closer to the lake on #18.
Banyan Golf Club is striving to create one of the best golf experiences in Florida and it's certainly heading in the right direction.
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