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Sports and Recreation at WDW |
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Written by Louis A. Mongello
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 Miniature Golf Courses
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Located behind the Dolphin on Epcot Resorts Boulevard, Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf opened
in 1996 and features 36 holes of fun in two courses - Fantasia Gardens
"The Hippo-est Golf Around" and Fantasia Fairways "A Miniature Golfing
Adventure". The two courses which are located behind the Dolphin on
Epcot Resorts Blvd.
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Winter Summerland
is a 36-hole miniature golf course located near the entrance to
Disney's Blizzard Beach water park. It is divided into two courses -
Winter and Summer (or Snow and Sand). The Winter course has the same
type of look as Blizzard Beach , while Summer course has a tropical
holiday theme.
Squirty the Snowman sprays
water on unsuspecting golfer on the Winter Course when their golf balls
pass beneath him, while on the summer course, guests putt over a
sleeping Santa buried underneath a tremendous mound of sand.
Winter Summerland is the second themed miniature golf course at Walt Disney World, after Fantasia Gardens.
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Golfing in WDW
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The Lake Buena Vista Golf Course wound through what was once the Disney Institute and Old Key West Resort, and is located near the Downtown Disney Marketplace.
The Lake Buena Vista Golf Course was designed by Joe Lee and is styled
in a classic country club setting, and is laced with dense pine
forests, Disney resort properties, as well as well-bunkered greens to
present quite a challenge. This course has played host to a PGA Tour,
an LGPA Tour, and a USGA event.
The Palm and Magnolia courses are located near the Shades of Green and
Polynesian resorts. Eagle Pines is located near the Fort Wilderness
Resort and Campground and Port Orleans-Riverside. The new Disney
vacation Club Resort will also be located on the Eagle Pines course.
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Walt
Disney World now boasts 99 holes of golf on five championship courses
and one nine-hole course, making it one of Florida's largest golf
resorts.
Recognized three times as a Gold Medal Resort by "Golf Magazine," the
Walt Disney World Resort offers tour-caliber golf with many of the
courses designed by world-renowned architects Tom Fazio and Pete Dye,
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Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex
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Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves hold their spring training at the ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex.
Disney's Wide World of Sports Baseball Stadium contains all of the
amenities of major league ballparks with a feeling of days long gone
by.
The Complex is also home of the Orlando Rays, the AA affiliate of the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Basketball's funny men, the Harlem Globetrotters,
workout here as well.
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The
facility allows guests to watch athletes compete in their favorite
sport in beautiful state-of-the-art facilities. Teams such as the
Atlanta Braves, Harlem Globetrotters, and the Orlando Rays, the AA
affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays use the facilities to train and
for games.
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The
11 clay tennis courts in Disney's Wide World of Sports have a sensor
system that actually moistens the courts when they are too dry! |
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