Golf in Mary Esther

Mary Esther is a small city in Okaloosa County on the Choctawhatchee Bay, in the Emerald Coast residential zone west of Fort Walton Beach. Gator Lakes Golf Course serves this community in the Panhandle's bay-side residential belt, near the Eglin Air Force Base complex that defines much of the county's land use. No hole-count data is in public records for the course. Mary Esther occupies a narrow strip of the mainland between the Eglin reservation and Choctawhatchee Bay, in a part of the county where the military presence shapes the land-use pattern and the civilian residential community has developed in the limited available space outside the installation boundaries.