Riverwood has a wooded front nine reminiscent of something found in North Carolina and an open back nine bordered by numerous wetland preserve areas more typical of Florida courses. The mixture helped earn Riverwood 4 1/2 stars, out of five, in Golf Digest's 2002 Places to Play listings. The course runs next to the Myakka River and is laid out in a figure-eight structure, meaning there are no parallel fairways. Homes are restricted to only one side of every hole, another nice touch. The signature hole is the 420-yard, par-4 sixth hole, which has a green shaped like an eight on its side and a 55- to 65-foot pine tree in the middle of the green. The pin is almost always left or right of the tree, but anything behind it is almost impossible to reach. 
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