Innisbrook Resort & Golf Club - Copperhead

Copperhead is the flagship of Innisbrook's four courses near Palm Harbor, Florida, designed by prolific architect Larry Packard, who lived at the resort for more than four decades. It opened in 1972, two years after his first Innisbrook layout, the Island Course. Unusually for Florida, Copperhead plays across genuine rolling terrain with sandy ridges and pines, giving it noticeable elevation change and a Carolina-sandhills feel. The par-71 test runs near 7,300 yards from the tips and is best known for the Snake Pit, its brutal closing three holes (16, 17 and 18), among the toughest finishes in golf. Copperhead has hosted a PGA Tour event continuously since 2000, now the Valspar Championship, and earlier decades saw other professional stops at the resort. A six-month restoration in 2015 rebuilt greens, fairways and bunkers while staying faithful to Packard's original design.