Golf courses in Bradenton

This site holds records for 19 golf facilities in Bradenton, carrying 342 holes between them. That count comes from the county records rather than from a directory: Manatee publishes a golf course GIS layer and Sarasota assigns dedicated golf land-use codes in its tax roll, so a facility that exists is in one of them whether or not it markets itself. The split by access is 8 private, 6 public and 5 semi-private. Access type is the thing worth checking before anything else, because it decides whether you can play at all.

Yes. Bradenton has 6 public courses: IMG Academy Golf Club, Links at Greenfield Plantation, Manatee County Golf Course, Pinebrook Ironwood Golf Course, River Run Golf Links and Greens of Manatee Golf Club. Public here means you can book a tee time without a membership and without owning a home in a particular community, which is not true of most golf in this market. Several are municipally owned, so a resident rate may apply. Green fees change by season and by day and very few of these courses publish a fixed table, so call the golf shop for the current number rather than trusting a third-party quote.

8 of the 19 are private: Bradenton Country Club, Legacy Golf Club at Lakewood Ranch, Miakka Golf Club, Peridia Golf & Country Club, River Strand Golf & Country Club, Rosedale Golf & Country Club, Tara Golf & Country Club and The Concession Golf Club. Private covers two quite different arrangements, and the difference is expensive. At some clubs membership is bundled with the home, so the cost arrives in the association billing whether or not you play. At others it is optional and bought separately, which means a lower monthly figure and a separate decision. Each club page here records which it is where a source states it, and says the club does not publish rather than estimating where none does.

IMG Academy Golf Club, Links at Greenfield Plantation, Manatee County Golf Course, Pinebrook Ironwood Golf Course, River Run Golf Links, Greens of Manatee Golf Club, River Isles Golf Club and The River Club, and 3 more are either public or semi-private, which is the group a visitor or a new resident can actually get on. A semi-private club sells memberships and also sells tee times, so you can play it before deciding anything, and that is the sensible way to judge a course you are considering buying next to. A private club means a membership or a member host, and no amount of enquiring changes that.

The architects recorded for Bradenton are Arnold Palmer, Arthur Hills, Chip Powell, Dana Fry, Dean Refram, Donald Ross, Gene Bates, Gordon G. Lewis, Gordon Lewis and Jack Nicklaus & Tony Jacklin, and 8 more. Architect, year opened, par and yardage are the facts this site will take from a golf publication, because they do not change and most small clubs publish no course specification at all. Membership structure, access and fees come only from the club itself. Where two sources disagreed about a course, the club's own figure was used, and where the club was silent and two directories disagreed, the fact was left out rather than guessed at.