Normandy Shores Golf Club

A dredged island, a wartime opening, a modern rebuild.

Normandy Shores Golf Club fills most of a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, beside the 79th Street Causeway in the north of Miami Beach. The city created the island and the course together: the land was donated in 1928, dredged through the 1930s and dedicated as a golf course in December 1941. It is a public par 71 of 6,805 yards, open every day, and every published rate includes the cart and range balls. That makes it noticeably cheaper than the city’s Alton Road course, with twilight from 3pm all winter.

Normandy Shores Golf Club green fees and tee times.

Book through the “Book a Tee Time” link on the club website or call 305-868-6502. The site does not publish a booking window, so for a January to April morning, the busiest months, ring the shop to ask how far ahead the sheet opens. Every rate covers the green fee, cart and range balls, and seven per cent sales tax is added on top. Twilight starts at 3pm from 1 November 2026 to 13 March 2027, and at 4pm through the summer. Miami Beach and South Florida residents should call for their lower rates. Rental sets of Srixon ZX4 clubs with six balls are listed at US$75. Collared shirts are required on the course, the range and in the clubhouse; jeans, sweatpants and cut-offs are not, and spikes must be soft.

The round, in perspective.

In July 1937 the city hired the firm of Howard Toomey and William Flynn, whose partnership also shaped some of the best-known courses in the eastern United States, and the routing was drawn once the dredging had made Normandy Shores Isle in 1939. After the war it became a social hub: the club lists Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer and Peter Thomson as regulars, alongside local money players known as Stork, Charlie the Blade and Three-Iron Ward. A redesign followed in the mid-1950s. The modern course dates from 2008, when the city spent more than US$9 million on an Arthur Hills redesign. The club has also added U.S. Kids Golf family tees, two extra sets on each hole placed well forward, so beginners can play from sensible distances.

Know before you go.

Included in rate

Green fee, cart and range balls

Twilight

From 3pm, 1 Nov 2026 to 13 Mar 2027

Sales tax

7% added to all rates

Range

Closed Tuesday mornings until noon

Hours

Daily, 6:30am to 30 minutes before dusk

Juniors

Miami Beach residents free after 2pm on Sundays with a paying adult

Make the trip work.

Twilight is the best saving in peak season: US$108 against US$170, more than a third off, for a tee time from 3pm. Check the sunset time before you book a late start in December or January, when daylight is shortest. The range is closed on Tuesday mornings for maintenance, so warm up elsewhere or take a later time that day. The grill and bar does grab-and-go food for the course, and a beverage cart circulates.

The club quotes 30 minutes from Miami International (MIA) and 35 from Fort Lauderdale (FLL). The address is 2401 Biarritz Drive. The 79th Street Causeway, also called the John F. Kennedy Causeway, crosses the bay from Biscayne Boulevard, so the course is as easy to reach from the mainland as from a beach hotel.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. Miami Shores Country Club (4 km) · 2. Miami Beach Golf Club (6 km) · 3. Trump National Doral (Blue Monster) (21 km)

Somewhere to settle in.

The course has no rooms. North Beach and Surfside, just east across Indian Creek, are quieter than South Beach and closer to this course, with hotels and rentals along Collins Avenue. Staying on this end of the Beach also leaves Miami Shores Country Club a short drive across the causeway, while Miami Beach Golf Club on Alton Road is about four miles south.

Make a trip of it.

Miami Beach Golf Club, the city’s other course and an Arthur Hills rebuild too, is the natural partner, and the two share the South Beach International Amateur each December. Miami Shores Country Club, laid out in 1939 by two former Toomey & Flynn associates, is across the bay on Biscayne Boulevard, which makes for an interesting comparison. For a resort round, Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster is west of the airport. Off the course, the Normandy Isles Historic District next door has 1920s Mediterranean-style buildings around the Vendome Plaza fountain.

Find your season.

The club is open 365 days a year and names January to April as its busiest months. Shoulder season, 1 November to 16 December, has the full rate at US$130. Summer is cheapest, at US$116 in 2026, but hot and humid, and twilight moves to 4pm. The South Beach International Amateur is played here in December.