Mission Inn Resort & Club - El Campeon Course

Mission Inn has two fine golf courses, tennis, swiimming, boating, dining, and more- all away from it all in the country; highly recommend after playing there for about 50 years;

My friends and I have been playing El Campeon and Las Colinas for the last 10 years. We are in Lakeland and it's about an hour drive but we would play 5 or 6 times a year when it was affordable in the summer but this year the price was not lower in the summer. Even though it's been one of the hottest summers and noone's out there after lunch time. They aren't the only course to change their summer rates. Golf is becoming unaffordable at any time. I moved here to play more golf but now I have to do it on a few local less expensive muni courses and still can't afford to play every week. It sucks.

We had a lotta fun. The course is in good shape, with thick rough, and hard to read greens. If you get lucky and make the correct read on a putt, you will sink it. We made more putts on the back nine, due to learning the greens. Even for an average golfer, the drive off the tee can be shaped over the water or around a dogleg on several holes.
Shirts are required to be tucked in. The service is impeccable. The cart personnel are fun.
It is a tough course to get a tee time in the spring, due to all the weekend tournaments

This course is a traditional, challenging course atypical for FL. The elevation changes are amazing. To score on this course, you need to bring your A game. Fairways are fair in width, but tree lined and the rough is gnarly. The rough in most places is a 3/4 shot penalty. The greens had been aerated about 2 weeks ago but putted well with the light sand layer that had been applied. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants a fair, hard challenge to their game.

great Course, Great Experience, Will go back for sure

Challenging course makes you think.The more I play it the better I like it.

This is a fun course with a lot of elevation and greens that will keep you guessing. Last time out, they had high rough which made for a slower round as the ball tends to disappear. There was a lot of people looking for their ball for quite a while. The prices are a bit high for the summer time, slow play, and location to really grab repeat play. But, it's a fun track that will test your skills while you enjoy the scenery and nature.

Staff is great.

What a great course do yourself a favor and go play it

The staff was friendly but this is not a 4 star course.

First time playing this course. We were warned it is difficult and that’s fine…..but when the rough is so high that you can’t find your ball that’s frustrating. Sometimes we couldn’t even see our feet because the grass was so high. We shot about 10 strokes higher than our norm. We are in the 11 index range. Not sure we will put ourselves through that frustration again.

A birthday gift from my wife and our first time traveling here. I joined up with a great group of guys that get together every year to play. El Campeon was such a beautiful course, layout, conditions and experience! Rough was truly rough! I lost a couple balls and helped look for some with the guys throughout the course. Fairway is your friend. Greens rolled true. need to remind others to fix their ball marks to keep it rolling nice. Lot of people golfing and pace was little slower but not terrible. Overall about a 5 hr round but the minimal downtimes allowed me to soak in the beautiful hills and landscaping of the property. I will certainly be back again!

El Campion is a difficult track with extreme elevation changes on several holes. Many tight driving holes as well with narrow fairways. The greens are flawless. The fairways were beautiful. The tee boxes were OK and the bunkers were well maintained. The rough is brutally long. Allowing Bermuda grass to grow 6 to 8 inches is just stupid. They really ought to do something about this. All it does is slow down play. Lots of water, too with some forced carry shots. Bring plenty of balls.

Rough was cut very thick, if you miss the fairway, good luck finding your ball, otherwise is a beautiful course

Los Collins's was no in that great of shape , a lot of washed areas, construction, the course has gone down hill from the last time I played their.

I never saw a ranger and the group’s in front of me where rude ( they spent 10 minutes on every green and they didn’t care that I was in the fairways waiting for them to get off the greens ) they all need to play one ball and play golf not sure what they thought they were playing.