Golf in Clermont

Clermont is a city in Lake County in the central Florida hills, in the ridge country west of Orlando where the terrain is more varied than the flat coastal lowlands. Five courses serve the Clermont area — Clermont National, Green Valley Country Club, Kings Ridge Golf Club, Kings Ridge Golf Club Ridge Course, and Swiss Fairways Golf Club — in a market sustained by the retirement and residential population drawn to the lake and hill terrain of the Lake County interior. No hole-count data is in public records for these courses. The Clermont area is recognized as one of the few parts of peninsular Florida where genuine topographic relief creates a golf environment that differs markedly from the canal-and-flat character of most of the state's courses.