Florida Golf Course Reviews
Streamsong Black Golf Course ReviewStreamsong, FL
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Streamsong Black Golf Scorecard, as of the date of last review
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Streamsong Black Golf Course Overview: This is the third golf course built at the Streamsong resort in Florida, near (but not too near) to Tampa Bay. It is also built on a separate piece of land from the other two golf courses, and has quite a different feel, with more usage of the native white sand from the area and feels more arid, featuring far less water than its older "cousins" that make use of the topography from the former mines and resulting lakes. It has a lot of very good holes and an overall unique golfing feel. The best golf holes are reviewed below:
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 2: This par four not long but the player will want to hit a short iron or full wedge to the green, so avoiding the bunkers left and right of the fairway is a good idea. The approach is uphill to a very shallow green with a massive bunker front/right and a drop off into a swale long that will make up and down quite a difficult proposition from most misses that don't find the green.
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 2: This par four not long but the player will want to hit a short iron or full wedge to the green, so avoiding the bunkers left and right of the fairway is a good idea. The approach is uphill to a very shallow green with a massive bunker front/right and a drop off into a swale long that will make up and down quite a difficult proposition from most misses that don't find the green.
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 3: There are quite few tee shots on the Black course where it isn't entirely evident where the best miss is due to the lack of visual cues from the tee. This one is no exception as, from the tee, missing right seems worse on the uphill drive to a blind landing area, but favoring the right actually has less trouble if the main bunkers are missed. The approach is very difficult, especially when the pin is back and especially when approached from the left. There is a creek crossing the fairway about 40 yards short of the green and a huge bunker left of the green and hazard left and long.
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 4: This par five is the classic split fairway, this time with a narrow but nasty creek separating the much wider and friendlier fairway to the right. The left fairway can only be reached from a big bomb drive and it is narrow. However, the reward is huge as any drive to the right fairway will have to cross the creek either on their second shot (preferred) or their third shot to get to the green, which has a steep slope down to its right side that can send shots heading down at least 20 yards.
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 5: Uphill par threes are not my favorites but this one deserves some recognition. It has possibly the largest facing bunker I've seen. From the tee box pictured here, it's to the right of the putting surface but from the back tees, the player is staring straight at it with the flag sitting up on the green against the sky. Missing short/right is obviously bad, but the bailout to the short/left of the green is actually a decent place to miss as chips from there are not too daunting on the large, undulating green.
Streamsong Black Golf Course Hole 8: This par four is a challenging dogleg right par four that sweeps beautifully between the white sand fields. The key is to either fly the bunker at the corner of the dogleg or hug its left side, which leaves a much shorter shot and one with a much better angle to the well-bunkered and big green.
Streamsong Black Course Hole 10: The first hole on the back nine is a straight par four with a lot of sand on it. The key bunkering are the massive cross bunkers that need to be avoided on the second shot, but that is easier said than done as they appear to be almost everywhere.
Streamsong Black Course Hole 11: This dogleg left par four feels a little different than most of the other holes on the golf course as there actually are some trees in play. However, the fairway bunkers are the main thing to avoid as the second shot is strongly uphill to a green complex with deep sand traps to avoid, with the clubhouse looking on.
Streamsong Black Course Hole 12: This fabulous dogleg right par five has a pretty open tee shot but the best one will be big and hug the right side. From there, the golfer may take on the green in two shots, which sits just over a deep sand filled wash, and which must be avoided. The layup area on the second shot, if used, is pretty generous.
Streamsong Black Course Hole 15: This par three is unique in a couple of ways. Upon first glance, it is a short par three with good bunkering and a multi-tiered green with several distinct levels. Upon further analysis (or if a caddie tells you) the tiers may actually be in the shape of the letter of the course designers last name initial (H), which to me is like somebody permanently shaving their name in their head in a fit of egotism. This is not a choice I'd make but it does make for a good discussion. I wish the tiers were a little more flat in between so the hole could be a bit better, but, love it or hate it, or anywhere in between, at least the hole is a memorable one
Streamsong Black Course Hole 16: This dogleg par four left lets the golfer choose how much of the large sand area to cut off. But, being a long hole, the player should bite off a lot. The second reason is that the green is nestled up against a bunker right and junk right of that and the surface slopes left to right, so a tee shot that challenges and stays to the left side will make the second shot a bunch easier.
Streamsong Black Course Hole 18: The final hole has a fairly flat drive but it needs to be straight and, ideally, long. The hole drops from their down towards the junk that cuts in front of the very wide and well bunkered green complex. Going right on any shot is basically death from tee to green.
