In Volume 2 of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak published that.

“This tony development is the American home of several of the top European players on Tour, and David Leadbetter’s years as resident teaching pro didn’t hurt its cachet, either. I played the course before it opened, when its white sand roughs and the steeply flashed bunkers had not yet come back into vogue, so it had a bit of a new look and was quite well received; hundreds of newer courses have usurped that novelty, but playing the four finishing holes along 800 acres of lakes will never get old.”

The Lake Nona Golf Club received a score of 6 out of 10 from Tom Doak and a score of 6 out of 10 from one of his co-authors.