Legacy Golf Club
About
Honoring the wishes of Lela and Charles Hilton, Legacy Golf Club is named in honor of their beloved son "Chip." He started playing daily at age 9 with a genuine love and excitement for the sport. He was on the Bay High School golf team, apprenticing with golf pro-Kenny Lind and made golf his vocation. As a professional golf instructor, he taught his students invaluable life lessons, emphasizing that golf is not a game of perfection but a comeback. He also believed golf was more than just a game; it was full of essential life skills such as patience, perseverance, determination, and overcoming obstacles and setbacks.
The golf club, established in 1965, is a championship course with challenging greens designed to test golfers with even the sharpest short-game skills. The fairways are generously sized with lakes and white sand bunkers that fiercely guard the elevated greens. Players should be prepared to use every club in their bag. The golf course is challenging but fair and enjoyable, making it a good test of skill without inciting frustration. Its playability, enhanced with three sets of tees, has made it one of Florida's most popular tracks. Legacy Golf Club also boasts extensive practice facilities, including a lighted driving range, chipping green, expansive putting green, Executive Course, and Bar and Grille.
Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Green | 72 | 6859 yards | 72.6 | 126 |
Blue | 72 | 6486 yards | 70.9 | 124 |
White | 72 | 6240 yards | 69.6 | 120 |
White (W) | 72 | 6240 yards | 75.6 | 124 |
Silver | 72 | 5866 yards | 67.6 | 117 |
Silver (W) | 72 | 5866 yards | 73.5 | 120 |
Red | 72 | 5151 yards | 64.1 | 102 |
Red (W) | 72 | 5151 yards | 69.2 | 113 |
Yellow (W) | 72 | 4019 yards | 62.9 | 100 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Green M: 72.6/126 | 527 | 444 | 351 | 195 | 393 | 511 | 170 | 379 | 428 | 3398 | 566 | 390 | 383 | 226 | 412 | 382 | 411 | 187 | 504 | 3461 | 6859 |
Blue M: 70.9/124 | 510 | 414 | 340 | 185 | 384 | 480 | 160 | 352 | 412 | 3237 | 545 | 371 | 353 | 193 | 385 | 373 | 369 | 177 | 483 | 3249 | 6486 |
White M: 69.6/120 W: 75.6/124 | 497 | 394 | 329 | 175 | 375 | 464 | 150 | 331 | 400 | 3115 | 519 | 356 | 340 | 177 | 367 | 364 | 357 | 167 | 478 | 3125 | 6240 |
Silver M: 67.6/117 W: 73.5/120 | 484 | 351 | 318 | 165 | 327 | 446 | 140 | 326 | 362 | 2919 | 478 | 342 | 327 | 161 | 349 | 355 | 345 | 157 | 433 | 2947 | 5866 |
Red M: 64.1/102 W: 69.2/113 | 429 | 323 | 307 | 155 | 243 | 406 | 130 | 311 | 319 | 2623 | 410 | 318 | 314 | 121 | 258 | 244 | 333 | 119 | 411 | 2528 | 5151 |
Yellow W: 62.9/100 | 320 | 245 | 217 | 102 | 233 | 313 | 102 | 270 | 226 | 2028 | 313 | 263 | 248 | 104 | 228 | 221 | 232 | 96 | 286 | 1991 | 4019 |
Handicap | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 18 | |||
Par | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
Handicap (W) | 1 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 8 |
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Great Golf
Love this place. We have played here for years. The staff are all very friendly and helpful. The course is almost always in great condition.
Winter Conditions Improving
The greens are running true still need some grass to grow in the fairways.
Best course in Panama city
I have played all the 18 hole courses you can play and legacy is the best. It is rather expensive but with the limited number of courses there is high demand. I liked this course better than bay point. The layout is not as tricked up as bay point. ( I am an 8 index)
Enjoyed The Legacy.
My wife and I both enjoyed playing this course. Nice layout, pace of play was great, and many different tee boxes to choose from.
Winter Conditions Improving
The fairway grass is starting to come in nicely; getting a little more roll in the fairway on drives. The greens are coming along nicely, too. I enjoy playing this course while being a snowbird down from Canada.
Winter Golf
The course was fairly empty due to clouds and chance of rain, but I enjoyed the round as a single, playing through only a few foursomes and finishing in 1 hour and 39 minutes. The fairways are a bit bare but the greens roll pretty well. The rough isn’t an issue.
Ouch! My Wallet Hurts
First of all, is it Legacy Golf Club or Holiday Golf Club? The website (www.legacygolfpcb.com) has both: click on tee times and the main window says Holiday while each tee time box says Legacy; the contact info on one page says hank@holidaygolfclub.com; even a sign inside the clubhouse says Holiday Golf Club.
As noted in a previous review, the price is fairly steep compared to courses we've played here and between here and back home. Without GolfNow discounts it would have cost over $160 for the 2 of us. My guess is with only three "public" 18-hole courses they can pretty much charge whatever and not suffer.
Despite the price, the GPS carts, putting green, 5 tee boxes, fairways, bunkers, and greens were in good shape. The layout was challenging with plenty of must-carries and sand. In addition, on this day the course greens did not match the practice one for speed, which took a few putts to realize they were actually slower.
I can recommend the course but will not play again unless the price comes down.
Pricey for some but convenient to the beach!!
Open layout! Tough scoring ! Greens are very tricky for lack of a better description on my part! Fun test
Lots of sand traps. We’re in excellent condition
I enjoyed my round Pro shop, starter, and beverage cart lady were very nice. Pace of play was steady and golf carts were nice. I would recommend this course to anyone.
Are you kidding me??
What they charge these days at Legacy is ridiculous. But when you pull up at the bag drop and the old guy tells your daughter “Tell him To hurry up”, are you freakn kidding me. They’ve lost me and many others as customers
Overall good course
Doglegs and challenging greens make this a fun course. It rained all day Saturday and we played Monday morning, the course was in great condition. Green fees a little high, but we did have a good time.
A strange day
Friendly staff, nice layout, zoomed around the course. It was a mud pit. Most balls plugged and no roll at all.. probably not the courses fault but rates are high for those conditions. Nice place, poor conditions.
Course was very wet
We were not informed of how wet the course was. Only told to avoid driving on certain holes. It was very wet and muddy to walk on or hit the ball from. We are here for the month of Feb in Panama City Beach. We might have been given an option to play another day.
Not a good Legacy for this course
The self proclaimed “best greens on the beach” golf course was anything but. Most of the greens were littered with uncut Poana making them almost unputtable. Legacy was its typical soggy, muddy mess. We played on a Wednesday. It had rained on the Monday. Should have known better - DO NOT play Legacy if it has rained within the previous 72 hours. Zero drainage on the course. One hole was so muddy they pushed up all the tees to the yellow blocks - rendering an otherwise challenging hole as a joke.
Oh, and a group who were an hour late showed up and were jammed in between our time and the tee time in front of us. Pace of play was a joke. The 17th hole was under construction and thus out of play….well at least that allowed us to make up some time!
This is a wildly overpriced and poorly maintained course. The layout actually has some potential. They will need to spend serious dollars to deal with the terrible drainage issue. Such a shame that we lost Hombre in Hurricane Michael instead of this one.