Miami Beach Golf Club

Carl Fisher’s course, a few blocks from South Beach.

Miami Beach Golf Club is the city-owned course on Alton Road and the nearest full 18 holes to the hotels of South Beach. It opened in 1923 as Bayshore Golf Course, one of three courses the developer Carl Fisher built to lure wealthy winter residents from New York, Indianapolis and Detroit. Today it is a par 72 of 6,813 yards, open to the public all year, with a restaurant and the Jim McLean Golf School on site. If you are staying on the Beach, this is the round that takes the least travel.

Miami Beach Golf Club green fees and tee times.

Book online through the club’s tee sheet or call the pro shop on 305-532-3350. The rates page says tee times open five days ahead, which matters from January to April, the months the club names as its busiest. There is one published price per season, and South Florida and Miami Beach residents with ID can ask for a lower preferred rate. Cancel at least 24 hours before your time; there are no rain checks. Singles are paired, players ride two to a cart and every golfer needs their own set of clubs. A non-playing companion can ride along for US$26 when space allows. Rental sets are US$80 with six balls. Collars are required (mock collars are fine); denim, cargo shorts, swimwear and metal spikes are not allowed, and men may not wear tank tops.

The round, in perspective.

Very little of the 1920s course survives above ground. When it was 79 years old, the city paid for a US$10 million rebuild by Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates. The club says every blade of grass and most of the trees were removed, the lakes were drained, reshaped and refilled, new irrigation went in, the hills and bunkers were resculpted and the old clubhouse was replaced. What you play is a modern Hills layout on historic ground, with the lakes very much part of the round. The land has had an eventful life. The US Army rented it for a dollar a year as a Second World War training ground, and in 1944 neighbours persuaded the city to condemn and buy the land rather than let Chicago investors build 650 houses on it. Since 2011 it has shared the South Beach International Amateur with Normandy Shores; Cole Hammer and Luke Clanton are among the winners.

Know before you go.

Booking window

5 days ahead

Cancellation

24 hours; no rain checks

Carts

Two players per cart; singles paired

Non-playing rider

US$26, subject to space

Range

Buckets US$18 to US$25, sold in the pro shop

Hours

6:30am to 7:30pm daily

Make the trip work.

The calendar is the main lever on price. Peak rates start on 17 December, so a round in early December costs US$100 less than the same tee time in January. The course opens at 6:30am, and an early start leaves the rest of the day for the beach. If you want coaching during the trip, the Jim McLean Golf School teaches from the same clubhouse and runs multi-day schools as well as single lessons. The restaurant welcomes non-golfers and has free parking, rare this close to South Beach.

The club puts Miami International (MIA) 30 minutes away and Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 35, traffic allowing. It sits at 2301 Alton Road on the bay side of Miami Beach, reached from the mainland over the MacArthur, Venetian or Julia Tuttle causeways.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. Normandy Shores Golf Club (6 km) · 2. Miami Shores Country Club (9 km) · 3. Trump National Doral (Blue Monster) (20 km)

Somewhere to settle in.

There is no hotel at the club and you do not need one: the course is surrounded by Miami Beach. The Art Deco blocks of South Beach, Lincoln Road and the Collins Avenue hotels are all close, and staying in mid-Beach keeps both this course and Normandy Shores within a short drive. If you would rather sleep at a golf resort, Trump National Doral on the mainland and JW Marriott Turnberry in Aventura both have their own courses.

Make a trip of it.

Normandy Shores, the city’s other public course, is about four miles north beside the 79th Street Causeway and shares the December amateur event, so the two make a natural pair. Miami Shores Country Club, a 1939 layout on Biscayne Boulevard, is across the bay. Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster is the big resort round, west of the airport. Off the course, the Bass Museum of Art is a few blocks east in Collins Park, and the Art Deco Historic District runs south along Ocean Drive.

Find your season.

The course is open 365 days a year. January to April is the busy stretch, and the peak rate runs from 17 December to 30 April. Summer carries the lowest published fee (US$168 in 2026) along with heat and afternoon storms, so book the first tee times. The South Beach International Amateur is played here and at Normandy Shores in December.