Lee Chimerakis recently concluded his successful career as a senior portfolio manager and global sports director for a global private investment firm. Now retired, Lee Chimerakis enjoys staying active by golfing at courses throughout the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida area.
Florida is home to some of the nation’s top rated golf courses. According to Golf Digest, Seminole Golf Club at Juno Beach ranks as the state’s best overall course, as well as the No. 12 course in the United States. Initially developed by Donald Ross in 1929, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw recently updated the bunkers and roughs. Built within a rectangular development site, Seminole provides golfers with a unique challenge in the form of wind directions that change from one hole to the next. Seminole, one of America’s most exclusive clubs, has already been tapped to host the 2021 Walker Cup.
The Tournament Players Club (TPC) at Sawgrass, Florida’s No. 2 rated course, was developed by Pete Dye in 1980 with a unique mission of challenging the world’s best golfers with various forms of target golf, as well as greens guarded by Dye’s “grenade attack architecture,” which consists of various bumps and hollows. The 17th hole at Sawgrass is one of the most famous in all of golf, with an island green made even more difficult by windy coastal conditions. Sawgrass ranked No. 49 in the country for the 2017-2018 season.
Other highly rated courses in Florida include Calusa Pines Golf Club, No. 83 in America, and both the red and blue courses at Streamsong.
