Kelly Plantation is just across the Mid-Bay Bridge on the Emerald Coast Parkway, within a resort and real estate development on Choctawhatchee Bay.

The golf course was carved out of a turpentine plantation with holes through stands of pine trees bordered by lakes and wetlands on 15 holes with sugar-white sand bunkers of varying sizes protecting the fairways and greens. The greens are generous with a variety of shapes and moderately undulating. It plays to 7,099 yards, 74.2/144, course/slope ratings from the back tees with four sets of shorter tees, designed by Fred Couples and Gene Bates in 1998.