Going for Golf

Metrowest

A course created by a British-born designer, Robert Trent Jones snr. The hallmark of Trent Jones snr is soon evident at MetroWest, where the shrewd use of bunkers and water and the shaping of fairways guarantee a fair but challenging experience .

Immaculate greens – a variety of tiered, elevated, narrow and deep constructions – present subtle undulations and are protected by shrewdly positioned bunkers. Trees that help to define the shape of the holes also provide obstacles to progress.

And water hugs long stretches of fairway and runs around the edges of several greens.

Not everyone is fazed by such concerns. Certainly not John Daly, who mastered the 405-yard ninth with a drive that carried 336 yards over water and onto the green. Hazard? What hazard?

The back nine climbs to the highest point of the course, at the 14th, which presents a view over downtown Orlando.

Don’t be distracted, though, because you will need all your concentration to negotiate the closing four holes, the climax of which is the uphill 18th that demands a long drive to be left with a short iron to the elevated green that is narrow but deep, with a bunker left and water right to catch the wayward approach.