Latest addition to the course, made this spring, is the installation of the ProLink GPS yardage and management system. Cart paths throughout the course were completed within the past year. The course, which was built a year before the hotel, was originally 36 holes, and included what is now Riviera CC, a private club bordering the Biltmore course on the south. The south 18 was sold by the government in 1945 to a group which formed Riviera. For visitors, the Biltmore course is a pleasant respite for two things it has very little of water and houses.
Water is into serious play on only two holes, six and seven.
The majestic view of the hotel is visible from every hole. The city of Coral Gables also operates Granada, believed to be the oldest continuously operating nine hole course in Florida. Opened in 1923, it is a mile north of the Biltmore. Biltmore golf director Bob Frier also has charge of Granada. One of the 15-story hotel s staggering statistics is its pool, which is 22,000 square feet and holds 600,000 gallons of water.