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GOLF BEYOND DAYTONA BEACH Snead and Gene Sarazen.
There is excellent golf an easy drive from Daytona
Beach hotels outside Volusia County. Orlando is a similar distance away and has a
multitude of top golf courses to play on a day trip
from Daytona Beach or on a twin-centre beach and
theme park holiday with golf.
The city of St Augustine is little more than an hour’s
drive north and has a number of top-notch courses
nearby. They include TPC Sawgrass, in Ponte Vedra
Beach, where Pete Dye’s Stadium Course with its
infamous island green 17th hole is the venue for the
unofficial “fifth Major”, the Players Championship.
Its acclaimed sister course, Dye’s Valley, is a
collaboration between Pete Dye and Bobby Weed
and has recently undergone a major renovation.
Close to TPC Sawgrass, golfers can play the original
island green that the Stadium Course one is said to
have been copied from – on the par 3 9th hole of
the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club’s Ocean Course.
St Augustine is also home to the World Golf Village,
which encompasses the World Golf Hall of Fame
and two golf course design collaborations by Hall of
Fame members – the King & Bear, by Jack Nicklaus
and Arnold Palmer, and the Slammer & Squire, by Sam
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DAYTONA BEACH ATTRACTIONS
The wide and smooth, hard-packed sands of the
famous 23-mile beach are rich in history. They were
the setting for the first motorcycle and car races
in 1902, actually taking place at Ormond Beach and
earning it the title “Birthplace of Speed”. Over the
ensuing years, various land speed world records
were set at Ormond Beach and then at Daytona
Beach. The record holders included British daredevil
and former World War I fighter pilot Henry Segrave.
His sleek Golden Arrow car reached 231mph in
1929 in front of a crowd of 100,000, earning him a
knighthood on his return to Britain.
Only two years earlier, Segrave had become the first
person to exceed 200mph when his Sunbeam car