Eagle Pines: Disney's Pete Dye Golf Course and the Osprey Ridge Distinction

Eagle Pines was a Pete Dye-designed golf course at Walt Disney World that opened in 1992 and closed in 2007. It belonged to the Bonnet Creek golf development, alongside a separately designed course, Osprey Ridge. The distinction matters: Four Seasons identifies Osprey Ridge, rather than Eagle Pines, as the course Tom Fazio updated for Tranquilo’s 2014 opening. Disney’s Eagle Pines reference, Four Seasons’ course history.

A course within a larger club

Disney’s reference gives January 23, 1992, as the opening of Bonnet Creek Golf Club. It separately identifies Eagle Pines as the work of Dye. Those records establish a useful hierarchy: Bonnet Creek was the club name; Eagle Pines was an individual course. Treating the names as interchangeable makes it difficult to follow what subsequently closed, changed ownership, or received a new identity. Disney’s club reference, Eagle Pines.

The two-course relationship also explains why recollections of this part of Disney’s golf operation often involve Osprey Ridge. Four Seasons’ account credits that course to Fazio and dates its original construction to 1992. They shared an opening-era development, but they were not two names for one architect’s layout. An Eagle Pines history should therefore retain Dye’s authorship rather than transfer Fazio’s later work to him. Four Seasons.

The club’s changing name

On February 1, 2005, the club’s name changed from Bonnet Creek Golf Club to Eagle Pines & Osprey Ridge Golf Club. This was a change to the combined club identity. It should not be described as the first occasion on which either individual course had a name. The earlier and later labels describe different levels of the operation. Disney’s club chronology.

That distinction is practical when identifying old scorecards, guidebooks, or photographs. A Bonnet Creek heading identifies the wider golf facility; a course-specific name is necessary to attribute a hole, architect, or playing route. The history of a club sign is not automatically the history of every landscape shown beneath it.

Closure and redevelopment

Disney dates Eagle Pines’ closure to 2007. Its combined-club entry supplies August 1, 2007, and connects the development with Four Seasons Orlando. Because the latter entry compresses both courses into a club history, its wording should not be used to assign identical final operating dates to both individual courses. Eagle Pines, combined-club entry.

Eagle Pines consequently belongs in Disney’s history of discontinued recreation, rather than a list of hotels that merely changed names. Its documented operating period was about fifteen years. The available references do not establish an exact hole-by-hole map of what survived development; claiming that a particular modern fairway came from Eagle Pines would require dated course plans.

What became Tranquilo?

Four Seasons describes Tranquilo as the former Osprey Ridge, redesigned and enhanced by Fazio Design for its 2014 launch. Its December 2017 announcement also describes a subsequent practice-facility renovation. These are successive changes to the operator’s identified course, not evidence that both former Disney layouts were joined into one. Four Seasons’ 2017 announcement.

The simplest accurate way to remember the relationship is to keep three records: Eagle Pines, Dye’s closed course; Osprey Ridge, Fazio’s original course; and the broader club/development whose naming and ownership changed. That preserves the identity of the lost attraction while making the later history understandable.

Correction, September 2026: An earlier version incorrectly presented Eagle Pines as the course reborn as Tranquilo. The account now distinguishes it from Osprey Ridge and removes unsupported routing, clubhouse, and closure-cause assertions.