SARASOTA NEIGHBORHOODS

Lakewood Ranch
A city onto itself, Lakewood Ranch is an award-winning, master-planned community laid out in five distinct villages offering single-family homes, condominiums and townhomes.  Lakewood Ranch has two golf courses designed by Arnold Palmer:  The Legacy, an 18-hole daily-fee course, and a 36-hole, members-only private course.  The Legacy has received a 4 ½-star rating from Golf Digest magazine.  The Club’s 42,000-square-foot Italian villa-style clubhouse offers rooms for casual and fine dining and a large ballroom.  Amenities include 16 Har-Tru and two red-clay lighted courts, 100 miles of trails and sidewalks, 400 acres of lakes, a restored 41-acre wetland preserve, a protected 2,000-acre conservation easement and numerous parks. 

Laurel Oak Country Club
Laurel Oak features more than 400 homes on 800-plus acres surrounded by two 18-hole, par-72, championship golf courses designed by Gary Player:  The West course, the first Gary Player Signature Course built on Florida's west coast in 1990, and the longer East course, opened in 1994.  Another 18 holes by Rees Jones are scheduled to be completed in December 2005.  The club also features 12 clay tennis courts using the “Hydro” irrigation system, with six courts lighted for night play.  Other amenities include a swimming pool, complete golf instruction programs, two driving ranges, putting green and clubhouse with dining and banquet facilities.

The Oaks
The Oaks offers three distinct low-density communities with golf-course homes, waterfront estates and condominiums.  Its private equity country club features two popular courses bordered by Little Sarasota Bay:  The Eagle, a Ted McAnlis design that runs fairly straight and narrow along the perimeter of the 1,000-acre property, and the more intensely challenging interior Heron Course designed by William Byrd.  Amenities include The Oaks’ 30,000-square-foot Georgian clubhouse, 14 Har-Tru tennis courts, a Junior Olympic-sized swimming pool and dining facilities.    




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