Sun and Golf in Fort Lauderdale - TPC Eagle Trace

5 am Thursday morning came pretty quick especially when you don't get to sleep until 1.  Yes, too excited :)  You would think I was going to DisneyLand.  LOL just a quick business trip with Jim.  4 days.  2 games of golf planned and 1 beach day.  Believe it or not we didn't find time for shopping at all.  Next time and I'm taking the car :).

Great plane ride and off to get our car at Budget along with about 100 other people.  Look over at the Thrifty line.  Off I go, 25 minutes later we are in an SUV for $100 cheaper than the quoted Budget price.  Go on my phone and cancel the budget car and off we go.

20 minutes later and we are in the hotel, our room is ready at the Fort Lauderdale Mariott - bonus.  And it isn't even 1 pm.

Quickly unpack and we are off to play golf at Eagle Trace a clublink course.  It is about 30 minutes away from our hotel.  Fort Lauderdale is so cool.  West of the Sawgrass Expressway is Fort Lauderdale and east is the Everglades (they look so desolate but are so full of live).

 

This is a gated golf community with a mix of houses ranging from 500K to 1M+++.  It is very difficult golfing on these courses between the beautiful houses and the amazing birds and the bunkers and the water :).  

This is the 18th hole at the TPC Eagle Trace.  The stands surround it and are grass seats.  Pretty cool.  If you are down in Fort Lauderdale check out this course for sure.  $45 for golf and cart.

I can't believe I made it 18 holes (without a drink, lol just water).  My body was boiling, time to get back to the hotel and into the pool.  Dinner at the Sea Level Restaurant in the hotel, right on the ocean.  Fort Lauderdale is a very busy port so there were lots of boats from pleasure boats to tankers to large Carnival cruise ships.  Also being close to the airport the sky was just bustling with planes coming and going.  A very enchanted evening.