Valencia Golf and Country Club

Anyone with a tee time can play the golf course that runs through Valencia Golf and Country Club. The club behind it books its own rounds, sells its own memberships and runs leagues on three days of the week. Its pro shop stocks balls, shoes, clothing and clubs, and fits clubs to order. After the round, golfers settle at the Patio Bar, an outdoor bar among Florida pine, cypress and palmetto, for a draft beer and something to eat.

The houses sit around all of it, behind a gate where Double Eagle Trail leaves Oil Well Road in Orangetree. That puts the community south of Oil Well, in the Naples area of Collier County. Homeowners get three things of their own in Lennar's description: a swimming pool, a park for dogs, and the fitness center. The clubhouse grounds are shared with the golf club, whose parking rule sends golfers to one side of the drive so residents visiting the clubhouse can use the other. Groceries are close, with a Publix on Oil Well Road 0.7 mile from the gate, about 3 minutes by car.

What is the course like to play?

Generous width off the tee, then greens on the small side and actively contoured. That is how Drew Rogers, the architect who renovated the course in 2018, describes it. You choose from five tee sets, and the back tees stretch past 7,100 yards. The layout itself is older, a Gordie Lewis design that first opened for play in 1997.

The renovation began in April 2018 and was finished by November. Celebration bermudagrass went onto the fairways. The greens were softened, then resurfaced in TifEagle, and the bunker count fell from 70 to 43. Two holes changed character: the par-five sixth became a cape hole that bends round a lake, and the par-four ninth got bunkers on the center line, so the player picks a side. Tees, practice tees and the practice putting green were all enlarged.

Practice happens on a 30-station all-grass range with target pins from 100 to 270 yards, next to a 5,000-square-foot putting green and a 5,550-square-foot chipping green. Range balls come by the bucket, and the hours follow the daylight, so check with the golf shop before you drive over.

What does the club run from week to week?

Leagues, mostly. A men's 18-hole league plays Saturday mornings from 7:45, and a women's 18-hole league plays Wednesdays from 10:30. Later that Wednesday, a nine-hole four-person scramble goes off with a 3:30 shotgun start, and the shop rotates the pairings. From April to October a men's nine-hole league plays Thursday evenings, with a 5:30 shotgun.

Lessons go through the club's own academy. Private lessons with its PGA professionals are booked at the pro shop. Get Golf Ready is a four-week group class for beginners that takes putting one week and chipping the next, then irons, then woods.

A few house rules meet every player on the first tee. The target for 18 holes is four hours. Carts keep to the paths around every tee and green, and for the whole of each par 3. The dress code bars denim, and outside coolers, food and drink are not allowed.

Charity golf has a history here. The course hosted an annual charity golf classic, a four-person scramble with a shotgun start, whose twentieth edition was played in October 2019. On Thanksgiving morning 2021 it held a Turkey Scramble, and every player brought a canned good for a local shelter.

How far is Valencia from the beach, the hospital and the airport?

About half an hour to Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park and three-quarters of an hour to the airport. By road from the gate, in free-flowing traffic:

• NCH North Naples Hospital, 14.9 miles, around 26 minutes
• Mercato, 17 miles, around 30 minutes
• Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park, 17.1 miles, around 30 minutes
• Vanderbilt Beach, 18.5 miles, around 33 minutes
• Fifth Avenue South, 25.1 miles, around 41 minutes
• Southwest Florida International Airport, 32 miles, around 45 minutes

In season, add time to every figure on that list, so don't plan a January flight around the 45.

What houses are there, and what have they sold for?

Every house stands alone on its own lot, some on one floor and some on two. Thirty-four of them changed hands between late May 2025 and October 2026, and they sold for prices from the $340,000s to around $800,000. The houses that sold or came up for sale in that stretch ran from about 1,800 to about 4,500 square feet, with 3 to 6 bedrooms.

The earliest houses date from 2004, and houses were already standing around the course before Rogers reworked it. Building paused, then picked up again in 2022 when Lennar started its section, which was still going up in October 2026. Lennar sells from a welcome center on Lema Court, with its available homes on Double Eagle Trail. That month it offered four plans, each with three or four bedrooms, at asking prices from the mid-$400,000s to the high-$600,000s. Those are the builder's asking prices for its new houses. They aren't what homes in the community sell for.

Does a house at Valencia come with golf?

The course is a separate public facility, and golf isn't something a house brings with it. If you want to play, the club sells its own annual, seasonal and summer golf memberships, and it takes tee times from any golfer.

The homeowners' association is its own matter. Its fee, what that fee pays for and its leasing rules are set out in paperwork that Florida law gives every buyer. Ask for it when you go under contract. Anyone hoping to rent the house out should read the leasing pages before signing.

Which Valencia is this one?

Two neighbors carry the name and aren't part of this community. Terreno at Valencia is a newer development to the east, and Valencia Lakes, to the west, is separately gated. A listing that just says Valencia could mean any of the three. This one is the 18-hole course and the houses around it, reached through the gate at Double Eagle Trail.