If you are a sun lover as well as a golfer, paradise awaits you at more than 100 public, private and semi-private golf courses throughout the Tampa Bay area. This Gulf coast area also is host each December to the JC Penney Classic, the richest mixed-team golf event in the world.
Citrus County is bordered by the marshy shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
The county seat is Inverness, home of the Inverness Golf and Country Club. Other points of interest include Crystal River Indian Mounds, Chassahowitzka Wildlife Refuge and Withlacoochee State Forest. This county is named for Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto, who marched through the area on his way north crossing the Withlacoochee River. The county seat is Brooksville and the major natural resource is limerock. Points of interest include Wild Waters and Weeki Wachee Spring in Spring Hill and Rogers' Christmas House Village in Brooksville.