Another no-brainer, and one that suggests that maybe the Planet readership harbors more golf snobs than anyone thought. Innisbrook features four immaculate courses; it's the only Bay area course to host a PGA Tour event, the annual Chrysler Championship, and its prices reflect that degree of quality. The famed Copperhead course can cost you $200 bucks at the height of the season, while the less legendary but still marvelous Highlands courses may cost only half that, depending upon when you schedule. Of course, that's still way out of our league — we only know it's so killer from hanging our heads over the fence like Kilroy and occasionally being paired with fellow duffers who lie about having played there.
Westin-Innisbrook Golf Resort, 36750 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor, 727-942-2000 or www.westin-innisbrook.com.
This article appears in Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2003.