Published April 2, 2026
Featured Golf Trip: Streamsong
David McLay Kidd will soon put his stamp on a property that already includes courses from Tom Doak, Coore & Crenshaw, and Gil Hanse.
From the looks of it, David McLay Kidd’s addition to Streamsong is just about ready, so let’s dive back into what the central Florida resort has to offer.
Set an hour from Tampa and 1.5 hours from Orlando, Streamsong is in the elite tier of American golf resorts. It’s home to three top 30 golf courses already, meandering around the former site of a phosphate mine that injects intrigue in the land that Florida otherwise can’t offer.
Here’s what we wrote about the first three last summer:
It started with Streamsong Blue and Streamsong Red, 36 holes that came from a rare bit of collaboration between Tom Doak and Bill Coore, who walked the property together before putting shovels in dirt. Doak’s Blue course includes a few Coore holes, then, and vice versa, as Golf Digest writes.
Whatever they did, it worked. On Blue, ranked 21st on our composite top 100 public golf courses in the U.S., Doak summons “dramatic vistas and thrilling shots up and down these ledges,” Fried Egg writes. Encircling Blue is the Red course, coming in at 15th, a Coore and Crenshaw masterpiece defined by its “massive scale and variety,” where the two uniquely routed the holes to show off the huge dunes.
Gil Hanse got his turn next, and Streamsong Black—29th on the composite top 100—lifted the legend of Streamsong that much higher in 2018. But there’s some separation here in setting and feel—Black is a mile south of the other two, with its own club house and some “strategic character,” GD says, in the form of “a hidden punchbowl green at nine, dual putting surfaces at 13, incorporating a meandering creek on the par-5 fourth and a lagoon cove to guard the 18th green.” And the greens are something you won’t see just about anywhere else: “Both the putting surfaces and the chipping areas surrounding them were grassed in MiniVerde, and today both are mowed at a single height.”
So, then, how does DMK’s creation add to the mix?
The resort surprised us by ditching the color-based naming convention and opting to call it Bone Valley, giving the fossilized remains of marine life across the site their due.
And now we wait on the reviews, as preview play kicks off this fall. From the photos, Bone Valley possesses the character that DMK courses often do, with wrinkles and slopes that may give your ball a life of its own once it lands on the fairway, with strategic dunes, and with bunkering that comes in every form and fashion. He has called it “whimsical, playful, and unexpected” and says his goal was to create the Streamsong course where golfers have the most fun.
In addition to the four championship courses, Coore and Crenshaw’s short course The Chain adds variety with a tee-marker-less experience where par doesn’t exist. Maybe you wait until 2027–when Bone Valley is set to fully open—to book your trip. Just make sure you have plenty of time to experience it all.
Pricing details
Overall range (golf + lodging): $1,489 – $2,979
• Assumes four days, four nights
Golf: $689 – $1,619
• Resort guest greens fees in August: $150
• Resort guest greens fees in November: $375
• The Chain: $89 Aug. | $119 Nov.
Lodging: $800 – $1,360
• Two-bed golf view suite in August = $400 per night
• Two-bed golf view suite in November = $680 per night
Travel considerations
• Streamsong is an hour from Tampa, 1.5 hours from Orlando, and 30 minutes from Lakeland.
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