Ross and MacKenzie would have been proud of Jones. Arcadian Shores bears witness to the fact that a challenging golf course doesn't have to torture you with impossibly steep bunkers, multiple blind shots, 10-foot high mounds, hidden fairways and other assorted artificial elements. On this classical-style layout, what you see is what you get. The course stretches from 5636 to a modest 6857 yards from the tips where it plays to a slope of 137. The slope is that high because the course puts a lot of pressure on accuracy, particularly off the tee.
Every hole is tree-lined and fairly narrow.
Arcadian Shores is generally flat except for a corner of the course that includes holes 13 and 14. The 13th is on the all-Strand's 18. The no. 1 handicap hole, it is 408 beautiful and difficult yards, requiring an accurate tee shot through a chute of trees to a crest of a hill. From there the hole veers downhill over a lake to a severely sloped green with a large bunker behind. The 398-yard 14th requires a drive over the same lake to an uphill fairway with a cluster of bunkers in the fairway on the left.