Streamsong Resort: Three Courses on an Old Phosphate Mine, and Why That's the Point

Every Florida golf trip on paper looks the same: flat, humid, and built around a theme park or a beach. Streamsong Resort doesn't fit that picture, and the reason is almost absurd: the ground used to be a phosphate strip mine. Decades of digging left behind tall spoil mounds and odd terrain that a flat Florida lot never has, and three different golf architects each got a piece of it to work with. The result reads more like a Nebraska sandhills trip than a central Florida one, which is the entire reason golfers who've never been near Bandon or Sand Hills put this on a list at all.

Three courses, three architects, no house style

Streamsong doesn't have a signature designer the way some resorts do. It has three, and they didn't coordinate:

• Red, by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.
• Blue, by Tom Doak.
• Black, by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, the newest of the three, opened in fall 2017, sitting about a mile south of Red and Blue's shared clubhouse with its own clubhouse and its own personality.

Red and Blue get talked about as a pair, since they share a clubhouse and routing philosophy on the reclaimed mine land immediately around it. Black is treated as its own trip inside the trip: a separate building, a separate walk, and per Golf Digest's most recent rankings, real standing on its own merits, not just as the new kid. As of the 2025-26 list, Black sits 33rd on Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Public Courses in America and 11th on the publication's Florida's Best Courses list.

None of the three courses plays like the others, which is the point of booking all three instead of picking a favorite sight unseen.

There's no "the package" here, and that's deliberate

Pinehurst has the Premier Golf Package. Bandon has its own stay-and-play structure. Streamsong does neither. Golf, lodging, dining, and spa get added to a reservation individually, which means there's no single number to quote the way this site quotes a resort's named package elsewhere.

That makes Streamsong a worse fit for someone who wants a travel agent's one-line price and a better fit for someone who wants to build exactly the trip they're taking: three rounds and no spa day, or two rounds and a long dinner, priced as what it actually is rather than bundled with things you didn't ask for.

Third-party trip-cost reporting gives a sense of the range: summer (July through September) stay-and-play rates starting at $180 a day, climbing to $215-$360 the rest of the year, with offseason double-occupancy rates reported as low as $123 per night per player. None of those are Streamsong's own posted rate card, because Streamsong doesn't post one fixed rate card. Treat them as a planning range, confirm the live number for your own dates and room/golf combination directly with the resort, and expect it to move with season the same way every other resort on this site's destinations list already does.

Getting there from DFW

Fairways and Miles plans from Dallas-Fort Worth, and Streamsong sits close enough to two airports that neither one is clearly the better default. The resort is a 90-minute drive from both Tampa International (TPA) and Orlando International (MCO). American flies the DFW-to-Tampa route nonstop, in 2 hours 39 minutes, which makes TPA the more direct option from DFW specifically; check both airports' current fares before booking, since Orlando's broader schedule can occasionally beat Tampa's nonstop on total trip time or price.

Whichever side of Florida you fly into, this isn't a drive-up resort the way some destinations on this site are. Budget the 90 minutes each way into the trip, and don't book a tee time close enough to a flight that traffic on I-4 or the rural roads around Streamsong turns into a real problem.

Planning the week

Three architecturally distinct courses are the reason to come; the a la carte booking model is the reason to plan ahead instead of calling the week before. Decide how many rounds you actually want (three, one per course, is the obvious default, but nothing forces it), add lodging and dining as their own line items, and price the whole thing against your actual travel dates rather than the seasonal ranges above.

If golf isn't filling every hour of the trip, the resort's isolation cuts both ways: there isn't a theme park or a beach boardwalk to fall back on nearby, so bring something to fill the downtime. A course-themed puzzle book works as well here as it does on any other long-flight-and-longer-dinner golf trip.

For how to think about paying for the flight and the room in points instead of cash, see Points & Miles. The 19th Hole newsletter is where a new Streamsong package or rate change gets flagged if the resort ever does move to a bundled model.