LINKS OF LAKE MARY
COMPANIES I ADMIRE / ROB URBAN
A place
in the foursome.
The game brings people out.
The people make it worth returning.
A golf club becomes more interesting to me when I can see how people find their way into its life.
At Links of Lake Mary, one small detail in the women’s golf program caught my attention: the group organizes foursomes so members can meet and play with different people.
There is kindness in that practical choice. Someone has thought about how a person moves from signing up to having a group to join.
The club sits in Lake Mary’s Timacuan community, with a course many people know by the Timacuan name. Its current introduction describes a place for golf, meals and social occasions.
I am particularly interested in the people those occasions bring together.
Someone has made
room for you.
The women’s golf section describes TWGA as a welcoming group for members who want to play, learn and enjoy organized games. Its play-day arrangements bring different skill levels together, and members can stay for lunch afterward.
I like that the social part has room to develop around the game.
Golf gives people something to do together while a conversation finds its pace. A shared round can include concentration, encouragement, a laugh and another chance after a disappointing shot.
The group’s account also describes a holiday scramble that includes Lady Niners and former TWGA members. That detail appeals to me because it keeps an invitation open across different chapters of membership.
A familiar place can continue to mean something to people whose routines have changed.
74.
Then 69.
The course is also a setting for players building their competitive experience.
The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour held its Central Florida Junior Open here on February 21–22, 2026. In the boys’ 16–18 division, Sumner Meekhof followed an opening 74 with a closing 69 to win at one under par for the tournament.
I appreciate the opportunity a two-day event offers: a player gets to return, make decisions again and discover what the next round can become.
The same event brought together players from multiple countries. A course in Lake Mary became a place where young people with different journeys could share the challenge of a competition.
Those experiences can matter well beyond a final score. Learning to prepare, recover and finish a round is part of learning what you can ask of yourself.
A course with
many personal histories.
The connection to developing golfers has an earlier chapter, too.
Seminole State College’s home-course account describes Timacuan as a venue for its Spring Break Classic. It identifies Ron Garl’s original design and later work by Bobby Weed.
That history helps me see the property as more than a collection of holes. It has been a setting for people pursuing the game at different stages of their lives.
A course can become associated with a tournament, a team or the first time someone feels ready to compete. Those associations give an outdoor place a very personal history.
Between the rounds.
Keeping that place useful takes continuing work.
The club’s golf page reports greens and irrigation projects in 2024 and further greens work, reconstruction of the second hole and additional infrastructure work in 2025. It identifies turf and clubhouse work as priorities for 2026.
I respect the commitment involved in caring for a course over time. So much of what a player enjoys depends on work done between rounds, often by people the player may never meet.
The published account distinguishes completed work from future priorities. I am appreciating the effort it describes, rather than treating those plans as a finished result.
The landscape
and its life.
The clubhouse extends the property’s life beyond golf.
The club’s event information welcomes nonmembers planning weddings, reunions and other gatherings. A person can form an important memory here without ever recording a score.
That broadens what the place can mean to its community. For one family it may be a celebration; for another person, a regular round with friends.
What I admire at Links of Lake Mary is that combination of play, effort and companionship. The foursome someone helps arrange, the junior event that gives a player a challenge and the work of maintaining the course each contribute something.
A golf club has a landscape. The people who use and care for it give that landscape a life.
Continue through Companies I Admire. If your organization helps people find a place to participate, I would be glad to hear its story.
Rob Urban
About the club.
Is this the course associated with the Timacuan name?
Yes. Links of Lake Mary is in the Timacuan community at 550 Timacuan Boulevard in Lake Mary. Use the club’s current website for its present name, booking information and operating details.
Can nonmembers visit or organize an event?
The club advertises nonmember golf and says membership is not required to use its social event services. Ask the club about current availability, booking requirements and event terms.
Are the 2026 projects described here all completed?
The club’s published update identifies turf and clubhouse work as 2026 priorities. This article does not treat that statement as confirmation that every project has been completed.