Camp Creek Golf Club: who can play and how inn guests book a tee time

Camp Creek Golf Club is Tom Fazio's private dunes-and-pines course at the east end of 30A, part of St. Joe's Watersound Club. Visitors play it by staying at Camp Creek Inn or Watersound Inn and paying $295 per round, green and cart included, booked through the inn. There are no public tee times. After Hurricane Isaias it reopened as nine holes on October 17, 2026.

This guide covers who can play, the booking steps, the course itself and the closures to plan around.

Quick facts

• Course: Camp Creek, Watersound Club. 684 Fazio Dr, Panama City Beach (Inlet Beach area).
• Design: Tom Fazio, opened 2001. Par 72.
• Access: members, members' accompanied guests, and Camp Creek Inn or Watersound Inn guests.
• Inn guest rate: $295 per golfer per round, green and cart (read October 26, 2026).
• Booking: Camp Creek Inn concierge or Watersound Inn front desk, after you book a room.
• Closed: every Monday; maintenance November 2-5, 2026.
• Post-storm: front nine from October 17, 2026; full 18 pending tree removal.
• From Destin Harbor: 48 minutes, 31.3 miles.

Camp Creek tees and ratings

The card is from GolfPass and was not checked against the USGA database. An older Chronogolf card shows the Black tees at 7,159 yards, 76.0 / 152, so cards differ.

Who can play Camp Creek Golf Club

The Watersound Club lists three groups:

1. Lifestyle Members. Golf is in the Lifestyle tier, not the Beach & Sport tier, and dues include green and cart fees. Membership office 850-213-5181.
2. Members' accompanied guests. Rental guests of members may not use the club, per the club FAQ.
3. Overnight guests of Camp Creek Inn and Watersound Inn. Both St. Joe hotels sell rounds on Camp Creek, Shark's Tooth and The Third at $295 per golfer.

WaterColor Inn guests have historically had access to Camp Creek and Shark's Tooth, but no current page confirming 2026 terms was found. The Pearl Hotel now advertises only Origins for its guests. If golf is the point of the trip, book one of the two inns that clearly include it.

How inn guests book a tee time

1. Book the room at Camp Creek Inn or Watersound Inn. Room rates were not captured in our research; check rates.
2. Ask for tee times straight away. Camp Creek Inn's concierge books them once the hotel reservation exists; at Watersound Inn it goes through the front desk.
3. Pay $295 per golfer per round, covering green fee and cart.
4. Mind the calendar. The booking window is not published, and the inns advise booking ahead, especially in peak season and around tournaments.

Watersound Inn's Watersound Golf Getaway package bundles two rounds on your choice of Camp Creek, Shark's Tooth or The Third; its price was not shown. Camp Creek Inn lists Ship Sticks and group golf packages.

The course

Camp Creek runs through dunes and pines near the Gulf, with rolling fairways, sandy waste areas and water on about 11 holes. Greens are TifEagle bermuda and fairways Tifway 419 bermuda. From the Black tees the 144 slope is higher than Shark's Tooth (130), and The Third has no published rating yet; the Gold tees at 5,796 yards are the sensible set for higher handicaps.

There is a practice range and putting green, plus a Golf Performance Center at the club, with pro shop, instruction and bag storage. No overseed policy is published. Our take: the best of the St. Joe trio for most visitors.

Camp Creek Inn: the golf inn

Camp Creek Inn opened in 2023 with 75 rooms, including golf-view and driving-range-view rooms, a Junior Golf Suite and a Pine Suite. It adjoins the course, 1 minute from the first tee. St. Joe reports a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star rating.

• Dining: 1936, ANR and Bark 'N Brine on site, plus in-room dining. Some restaurants are adults-only after 3 p.m.
• Beach: inland; a free shuttle runs to the Watersound Beach Club.
• Parking: complimentary valet; one standard vehicle per room; no RVs or trailers.
• Pets: none; service dogs only.
• Resort fee: none listed on the FAQ.

Watersound Inn is the alternative: 11 suites with full kitchens beside the beach club, 15 minutes from Camp Creek by car, with no shuttle and a minimum booking age over 25. It takes up to two pets under 50 lb in designated rooms, at $100 per pet.

Closures and events to plan around

• Every Monday: Camp Creek rests. Shark's Tooth rests on Tuesday and The Third on Wednesday.
• November 2-5, 2026: Camp Creek maintenance closure.
• November 12-14, 2026: Campfest member-guest.
• Mid-October: Sharkfest member-guest at Shark's Tooth.

A simple three-round stay at Camp Creek Inn: Camp Creek on Tuesday, The Third on Thursday and Shark's Tooth on Friday, avoiding each course's rest day. Check maintenance dates first, and check that Shark's Tooth has reopened after the storm.

After Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin on October 9, 2026 as a Category 2. St. Joe closed all Watersound Club courses for cleanup and reopened them in stages, The Third and Origins first. Debris was cleared from greens and fairways, and the club's weather page said Camp Creek would reopen on October 17, 2026 as nine holes, the front nine, while tree removal continued. Shark's Tooth was listed as closed until further notice in late October 2026. Check the full 18 before booking. More in our Destin hurricane season guide.

Distances

Routed free-flow times. For flights, ECP is roughly 35 to 45 minutes from east 30A (not router-checked); see flights to Destin.

Is Camp Creek Golf Club worth $295?

At $295 a round on top of a luxury room, Camp Creek Golf Club is one of the most expensive rounds on the Emerald Coast. For comparison, Burnt Pine at Sandestin, also limited to members and resort guests, was $179 in season and $149 in winter for 2026, and the Raven, Sandestin's best public course, was $159 public. What the extra buys is a quiet private Fazio course next to your room, with no outside public tee times. It suits a couple or a small group making golf the point of an east-30A stay. It makes less sense from a Destin base, 48 minutes away.

If you cannot stay at the inns

• Origins Golf Club, 9 minutes from Camp Creek Inn: the public Davis Love III short course, six or ten holes. See the Origins course guide.
• Windswept Dunes, Freeport: a long public dunes course with October 2026 deals of $105 to $129 with cart. See the Windswept Dunes course guide.
• Shark's Tooth and The Third: same access and price as Camp Creek, though Shark's Tooth was closed until further notice in late October 2026.

Our Watersound Club golf guide compares all four St. Joe courses, and 30A golf covers every option along the coast road. For the Sandestin equivalent of stay-to-play, see the Burnt Pine golf club guide. Destin golf resorts compares the bases.

For another Gulf Coast course worth planning a trip around, see Fallen Oak tee times near Biloxi.

Plan it on the map

Open the Destin golf map to see Camp Creek Golf Club, the inns that unlock it and drive times from every stay. The $30 plan can build a day-by-day trip around the $295 rounds and each course's rest day.