Rainbow Springs Golf and Country Club in Dunnellon, Florida

With a name like Rainbow Springs Golf and Country Club, you might expect a beautiful golf course with some sparkling, multi-hued watery hazards.

You'd be half right. Rainbow Springs in Dunnellon, Fla. is a very picturesque layout in a very picturesque part of Florida, but there's not a drop of water to swallow your golf ball.

The semi-private golf course is practically the next door neighbor of the Rainbow River state park, which showcases the 6-mile-long Rainbow River.

Despite not being flavored by the lovely river, the course is still a beauty. It plays through the semi-rolling hills in this part of the state, 20 miles south of Ocala in the southwest part of Marion County. It's surrounded by rivers and the Gulf of Mexico further to the west, but the course itself is water-free.

Rainbow Springs shares most of the flora and fauna the river attracts - like summer wildflowers, magnolia and dogwood trees - where wading birds, red-shoulder hawks and swallowtail kites can be spotted.

That's where all this pretty talk ends, however, because the course itself can be mean as one of those red-shouldered hawks.

It's a Joe Lee design, 6,721 yards from the back tees, and the lack of water is made up for with plenty of bunkers, trees and just plain difficult holes.