The Experience Insider

Tiburón’s Black Course has been selected to the 2009 Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list. This is the first time the Black Course appears on the annual list which ranks the top public-access layouts in the U.S. as selected by Golfweek’s rating system. Golfweek’s rating process consists of a national team of 450 golf course raters who judge the courses on a basis of 10 criteria of architectural merit to determine the public-access golf courses to make the list. The complete list will be featured in an upcoming guide, Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play, which according to Golfweek is “an essential handbook on where to go, play and experience the best of the best in golf.” The digest-sized guide will be mailed to Golfweek subscribers on May 1.

The Black Course is one of two superb 18-hole championship courses designed by golf legend Greg Norman that you may enjoy at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples. Some of the unique characteristics of Tiburón’s 36 holes are stacked sod wall bunkers, fairways lined with native vegetation to blend into the environment, and no rough. Click here to learn more about golf at Tiburón or to take a virtual tour of the club.

Membership to the Tiburón Golf Club allows you to enjoy three superior dining rooms, private members-only locker rooms and lounge areas, fully-equipped golf shop, concierge services, members-only Fitness & Health Club with spa treatment rooms, luxury beach transport and access to the Rick Smith Golf Academy.

Tiburón, a luxury master-planned WCI community, is home to the Merrill Lynch Shootout through 2010, Greg Norman’s PGA TOUR-sanctioned event played on the Gold Course.  Luxury residences priced from the $940s.  Custom homesites are available priced from the $370s. Click here for more information on luxury golf living at Tiburón.