Golf in Lakeland

Lakeland is the largest city in Polk County and a major inland metro center between Tampa and Orlando, anchored by Florida Southern College and a broad industrial and commercial base. Five courses serve the city — Grasslands Golf & Country Club, Highland Fairways Golf Club (restricted to members), Links of Sandpiper, Sanlan Golf Course, and Wedgewood Golf and Country Club — in a market sustained by the large permanent residential base of this key inland Florida city. No hole-count data is in public records for most of these facilities. Florida Southern College's concentration of Frank Lloyd Wright building collection makes Lakeland a destination for visitors interested in modernist structures and craftsmanship, and the city's central position in the Florida peninsula sustains a year-round golf market.