Four U.S. Golf Resorts Stack Fall Stay-and-Play Packages

Reynolds Lake Oconee, the Villas of Grand Cypress, Streamsong Resort and Colonial Williamsburg Resorts are each offering fall stay-and-play packages built around courses from some of golf's most decorated designers, with rates this October ranging from $217 to $500 per person, per night.

Which resorts are included?

Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia, carries five courses across four architects. Great Waters, a 1992 Jack Nicklaus design that traces the shoreline of Lake Oconee, is closed for a renovation this fall. The resort's other tracks remain open: Oconee (Rees Jones, 2001), the 27-hole National (Tom Fazio, 1997) and two Bob Cupp designs, Preserve (1987) and Landing (1986), the first course built on the lake. The Reynolds Unlimited package covers a cottage or condo, breakfast, unlimited golf, cart, forecaddie and practice-facility use, starting at $500 per person, per night.

In Orlando, the Villas of Grand Cypress pairs two Nicklaus layouts built four years apart. The 27-hole Old course opened in 1984 and hosted the 2011 LPGA Tour Championship. The New course, finished in 1988, is built as a tribute to the Old Course at St. Andrews, with double greens and more than 140 bunkers. Its Stay & Play package includes daily 18-hole play, cart, rental clubs, range access and breakfast, from $400.

What makes Streamsong different?

Streamsong Resort in Bowling Green, Florida, built its reputation on three courses from three separate architecture teams working the same stretch of reclaimed phosphate mining land: Red (Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, 2012), Blue (Tom Doak, 2012) and Black (Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, 2017). The Stay & Play 18 package includes one round on any of the three, lodging in the resort's lodge or clubhouse, breakfast and discounted replay rounds, starting at $375 per person, per night, based on double occupancy.

Four courses built forty years apart by four different architecture firms sit on one piece of land in Bowling Green.

What's the history behind Colonial Williamsburg's courses?

Colonial Williamsburg Resorts in Virginia dates its golf back further than any of the other three. Golden Horseshoe Gold, a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design from 1963, is credited with popularizing the term "signature course." Golden Horseshoe Green, added by his son Rees Jones in 1992, hosted the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, where Yani Tseng beat defending champion Michelle Wie 1-up. Spotswood, a nine-hole, par-32 Trent Jones Sr. layout from 1964, rounds out the property. The Freedom Golf Package covers stays at one of six hotels, rounds on the Green and Gold courses — the Gold carries a seasonal premium of $24 to $80 — plus Spotswood, range balls and breakfast, starting at $217 per night.