PGLS

Designed by world-renowned golf course architect Dick Wilson and his apprentice Joe Lee, the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course was built by Michael Phipps and opened for play in 1961. It was privately owned until 1973, when the Town of Palm Beach purchased it for $5 million. The course was recently renovated and redesigned in 2009 by Hall of Fame golfer Raymond Floyd.

This was a fun little project to build. It is mostly a short course with challenging greens, but a lot of fun to play. I used the Course Terrain Tool to download the lidar data and used whatever assets I had for the palm trees, houses, planting, etc. and it plays great too!

I am listing this as a "final" version, but certainly if you find anything wrong with the course or want to post some comments, feedback, etc. feel free to do so. I hope you enjoy it.

Mwh65 wrote: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:58 am A new course has been uploaded to our Courses Database: (Click to view).



All Par 3s that would be torture for me - LOL

Using the dynamic clouds on this course is causing 'stutter' and skips within the game play. I can't figure it out why as I have not encountered this with my other courses. So, I decided to remove the clouds and just use a static skybox for a smoother game play experience. The course plays 10Xs better now.

someone pointed out there was no 'drop zone' when hitting the ball into the water. And they were right.. not sure how I missed that, but I have updated the course with a water hazard drop.

whattashot wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:46 pm @RobV - do you mean to tell me the designer has the option to place lateral water hazards drops? If so, why do we get lateral hazard drops as much as 150 yards (or more) from the spot where the ball entered the water? We should get 2 club lengths, no closer to the pin.