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Brett Wiesley:
If it's the course I'm thinking, there is some home development around and near.  The course, if this is it, would also be close to the new Gil Hanse/Wagner High Grove.  Not sure it would stir more interest as a result.


Here's a link to Florida Historical Golf Trail listing of the course from 2018:
Highland Florida Golf Club Featured as Florida Historic Golf Trail Course of the Month - Florida Department of State

Kyle Harris:
Streamsong is significantly closer.



This was Highland Park (later called Lekarica, and then rather briefly Highland Florida) designed by Stiles and Van Kleek in Lake Wales, FL.

In the 1920s, Polk County was an epicenter of golf with two Seth Raynor courses (Mountain Lake, Lake Wales CC), a Donald Ross (Lake Pierce Estates), William Flynn (Cleveland Heights) and this place. Stiles and Van Kleek also had Holly Hill and Kenilworth Lodge in nearby Sebring.

The land bust, which predecessed the Great Depression by a few years, hindered the natural progress of many of these places. 

1941


By the 1960s, the middle stretch from 9-14 were abandoned and turned to Orange Groves. If you ever played it in it's latest iterations there were slight changes to the 9th and 10th.

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