Florida’s Streamsong opens alongside two of the most praised new U.S. golf courses.
Why Go: Go to golf or to appease a golf-loving spouse. This 216-room resort in Polk County, Fla., was not built in an existing vacation destination. Rather, it was built on a former phosphate mine owned by Streamsong’s parent company. The site—with drastic elevation changes, huge bunkers, and deep ponds leftover from the mine, and the expertise of Tom Doak’s Renaissance Design on one set of 18 holes and Bill Coore and Ben Cren…