Orlando’s golf is divided by a question the theme parks never ask: are you staying here? Six of the eight courses on this page take a stranger’s booking. Inside the Disney resort, the Palm and Magnolia date from the Magic Kingdom’s opening day in 1971, and the Waldorf Astoria’s Rees Jones course at Bonnet Creek sells tee times to outsiders as well as hotel guests. South along I-4, Celebration offers the final Trent Jones father-and-son design, and ChampionsGate adds two contrasting Greg Norman courses beside the Leadbetter academy. Shingle Creek, rebuilt by Arnold Palmer’s design firm, is the nearest course to the convention centre and the airport. Orange County National in Winter Garden is a 45-hole public complex with Q-School pedigree. Bay Hill and Reunion work the other way round: Palmer’s club gives a round for each night in its lodge, and Reunion keeps its courses for people renting its managed homes. All eight are within about 40 minutes of Orlando International, so the real choices are where you sleep and how much driving you want. The table and notes below set them side by side.
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| Course | Green fee from | What’s included | Getting there | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & LodgeClub & lodge | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 2Orange County National (Panther Lake)Public golf centre & lodge | US$50Checked November 2026 · details | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 3Disney’s Palm and Magnolia Golf CoursesTwo public resort courses | US$55Checked November 2026 · details | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 4Waldorf Astoria Golf Club, OrlandoResort course | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 5Shingle Creek Golf ClubHotel course open to the public | US$110Checked November 2026 · details | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 6Celebration Golf ClubPublic daily-fee course | US$59Checked November 2026 · details | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 7ChampionsGate Golf Club (Omni Orlando Resort)Resort with two 18-hole courses | US$58Checked November 2026 · details | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 8Reunion Resort (Watson Course)Resort guest golf | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide |
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Bay Hill’s Challenger and Champion nines, the Invitational course every March since 1979. Two lodge nights buy two rounds on it; steer clear of 15–21 March 2027, when the tour moves in.
Green fees & bookingPanther Lake at Orange County National. Anyone can book, the cart is in the price, and GolfNow listed an October afternoon slot at US$49.99. The walking-only Tooth nine adds a US$15 warm-down.
Green fees & bookingDisney’s Magnolia, the old home of the Tour’s Disney event and freshly reworked in 2025. Guests of any Disney hotel ride a free taxi to the first tee, so golf needs no hire car, and autumn rates carry a published saving.
Green fees & bookingThe Waldorf Astoria Golf Club. Golfers tee off among cypress in the morning while the family takes the hotel shuttle to the parks. Outside players can book too, and the range comes with the round.
Green fees & bookingShingle Creek, a short hop from the convention centre and MCO. Valet, range balls and a GPS cart come with every booking, and November afternoons were US$110, about a fifth below the morning rate.
Green fees & bookingChampionsGate’s International, the stiffest of Norman’s pair at a 143 slope, with the Leadbetter academy next to the practice ground for a lesson the day before.
Green fees & bookingEach package names its rounds, nights and hotels, so you can see which of the courses above it includes before you ask for a quote.
5 nights, 4 rounds
Rounds: Celebration Golf Club · Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill · TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley · TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course
Stay: 2 nights at Bay Hill Club & Lodge, 3 at Sawgrass Marriott
Two PGA TOUR venues in one week: sleep on site at Bay Hill, then play the Sawgrass Stadium Course with a forecaddie included.
Prices are Golfbreaks’ published per-person guide prices in US dollars, checked November 2026; your quote depends on dates and group size. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. How we work
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Most of the public courses now show numbers you can plan around, and all of them float with season and time of day. Orange County National is the floor: GolfNow listed a prepaid October afternoon on Panther Lake at US$49.99 with a cart. On Celebration’s booking page a mid-November weekday ran from US$59 late in the day to US$109 for an early start with a meal, non-residents. Shingle Creek listed US$110 in the afternoon and US$140 in the morning, plus 6.5% tax, with valet and range balls thrown in. Disney publishes only its Sunset 9 rates (US$55–65 for nine holes this autumn) and quotes 18 holes when you book. ChampionsGate leaves pricing to GolfNow, where GolfPass showed the National from US$58 and the International from US$76. Florida residents pay less at Disney, Celebration and Shingle Creek. The Waldorf Astoria keeps its green fee off the website and adds a US$50 nightly resort charge for hotel guests; Reunion’s rounds sit on a US$40 nightly fee plus tax; Bay Hill prices room-and-golf only on request. Bring cash to Bay Hill: a walking caddie was US$100 a bag on the 2025 list, and there is no ATM.
Orlando International (MCO) serves all eight. Shingle Creek on Universal Boulevard is the closest, 15 to 20 minutes from arrivals, and ChampionsGate the furthest at 35 to 40 minutes by toll road. In between, Celebration is about 25 minutes out, Disney’s clubhouse and Bay Hill about 30, Orange County National about 35 in Winter Garden, and the Waldorf Astoria and Reunion 20 and 27 miles away. The courses fall into three short clusters. Bay Hill and the Waldorf Astoria are each about 15 minutes from Shingle Creek. Disney’s Palm and Magnolia sit 15 minutes north of Celebration, with Orange County National 20 minutes beyond. ChampionsGate is 15 minutes from Celebration and 10 from Reunion. Disney hotel guests can take a free taxi to the Disney courses; everywhere else assumes a hire car, and Shingle Creek includes valet parking in its rates.
November to April is the season: dry, mild and the stretch when the courses peak, in condition and in price. Disney’s calendar is a useful guide to demand, with full rates from 8 January to 21 March, a published autumn saving and the steepest cuts in summer. Autumn overseeding makes November the month to check closely. In 2026 Disney shut the Palm from 9 to 27 November, the Waldorf Astoria posted a mid-November spell with only nine holes open and carts kept to paths, and Reunion lists closure days on each course. The PGA Merchandise Show fills hotels across the area each January. At Bay Hill, the Arnold Palmer Invitational takes 15–21 March 2027, two weeks later than usual, and guest play is limited around it. Summer is cheaper but humid, with afternoon storms, so book early starts. Hurricane risk lasts from June until 30 November.
Six of these eight: Orange County National, the Waldorf Astoria Golf Club, Disney’s Palm and Magnolia, Shingle Creek, Celebration and both ChampionsGate courses. Bay Hill is limited to members, their guests and Bay Hill Lodge guests, and Reunion to members and guests in resort-managed homes and villas; some Preferred Rental Partner homes include access, but not all.
From about US$50 at Orange County National (a GolfNow afternoon rate with cart) to US$140 for a November morning at Shingle Creek. Celebration ran US$59–109 for non-residents, and GolfPass showed ChampionsGate from US$58. Disney quotes 18 holes at booking; the Waldorf Astoria, Reunion and Bay Hill publish no green fees, and the Waldorf and Reunion add nightly resort fees.
Book a stay at the lodge with golf, on 407-876-2429 or through bayhill.com, and the lodge sets up your times. Each night earns one 18-hole round on the Challenger and Champion nines. Playing as a member’s guest is the only other way on.
Disney’s own Palm and Magnolia, in the Magic Kingdom resort area, with free taxis from Disney hotels. The Waldorf Astoria is inside the Disney boundary, about two and a half miles from Disney Springs. Celebration is a few minutes south of the parks, ChampionsGate about 20 minutes, and GOLF.com puts Orange County National about eight miles from the gates.
Shingle Creek Golf Club, on Universal Boulevard a few minutes south of the convention centre and around 12 miles from MCO. It books 90 days ahead online, takes group events in its pavilion, and its afternoon rate suits a delegate whose sessions end at lunch.
ChampionsGate is the world headquarters of the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, beside its two Norman courses and a floodlit par-three nine. Celebration runs a Junior Academy with a three-hole course for young players in private lessons, and Shingle Creek also has an academy.
Only Bay Hill has caddies: the 2025 list gave US$100 plus gratuity for a single-bag walking caddie and US$40 per player for a forecaddie with two players, paid in cash or by app. The other seven are cart golf, and Celebration makes carts compulsory, though Orange County National’s Tooth nine is walking only.