Harbor City Golf Course in Melbourne, Florida

Harbor City is a municipal golf course run by the City of Melbourne on Lake Washington Road, which the city lists as formerly Mallards Landing Golf Course.

Melbourne's golf listing gives the course address as 2750 Lake Washington Road, Melbourne, FL 32935, with the course phone 321-608-7480 and the Harbor City Grill on site (City of Melbourne Golf page). It is one of the two courses the city runs; the other, Crane Creek Reserve, sits on West New Haven Avenue and answers at 321-608-7430. Harbor City is also where the city hosts FootGolf, which the Golf page lists only for this course.

Both courses belong to Melbourne's Parks, Recreation and Golf staff, whose list of managed facilities starts with golf courses and runs through athletic fields, pools, community centers and the Melbourne Auditorium; the department's main number is 321-608-7400 (Melbourne Parks, Recreation and Golf). The city's annual financial report describes its recreational services as including two golf courses (Melbourne FY2025 ACFR).

The old name has not disappeared from every city page. The Reclaimed Water page still lists both City golf courses as Crane Creek Reserve and Mallards Landing among the utility's reclaimed water customers (Melbourne Reclaimed Water page), while the Golf page uses Harbor City throughout. Anyone searching city documents for the course should try both names.

Melbourne's Harbor City course opens at 6:30 a.m. every day of the week, closing at 6:30 p.m. from March 8 through October 31 and at 5 p.m. from November 1 through March 7.

On the Melbourne golf schedule, the Harbor City Grill runs from 10 a.m. to close, Monday through Sunday, and notes for both the course and the grill that hours are subject to change due to weather (City of Melbourne Golf page). With that weather caveat on the city page, the pro shop line at 321-608-7480 is the practical check before driving to Lake Washington Road. Tee times are booked from the city Golf page through its Book a Tee Time link.

Eighteen holes at Melbourne's Harbor City course cost $42 with a cart or $27 walking, and nine holes cost $26 with a cart or $20 walking, with every daily fee including tax.

Harbor City and Crane Creek Reserve share one price list on the city Golf page, so the late-day discounts, the second list headed Rates Starting November 1, the two annual passes and the lesson rates are the same at both courses; the Crane Creek Reserve guide sets those out. A companion riding along without playing pays a spectator cart fee of $20 for 18 holes or $15 for 9 (City of Melbourne Golf page). The department's refund policy says daily fees, memberships and passes are not refunded (Melbourne Parks, Recreation and Golf refund policy).

FootGolf at Melbourne's Harbor City course is played on an 18 hole AFGL accredited course, where each player pays $15 once open play starts at 2 p.m. daily.

The City of Melbourne describes FootGolf as a combination of soccer and golf, played with a regulation #5 soccer ball on shortened holes cut with 21-inch diameter cups, with rules that largely follow golf (Melbourne FootGolf description). The same city page says the sport is regulated by the Federation for International FootGolf (FIFG) and that the American FootGolf League (AFGL) is the exclusive FIFG member and governing body for FootGolf in the United States; the Harbor City layout carries AFGL accreditation.

Open play starts at 2 p.m., and players can add an optional cart for $10 or rent a ball for $4 (City of Melbourne Golf page). The city also books FootGolf league play, birthday parties and team building events at Harbor City, with information and pricing for all three at 321-608-7480. For planning a group outing, the city puts a FootGolf round at about two hours.

In 2025 Melbourne put new GPS golf carts on both city courses, and its annual financial report logged 87,394 rounds across the two.

Melbourne's 2025 Year in Review reports that the Crane Creek Reserve and Harbor City Golf Courses received new fleets of golf carts equipped with a GPS system that prevents golfers from driving into unauthorized areas, such as too close to the greens, bunkers and tee boxes, and that lets staff monitor the pace of play (Melbourne 2025 Year in Review). The FY2025 annual financial report lists $1,134,140 for the golf cart fleet among the year's major capital asset events in Melbourne (Melbourne FY2025 ACFR).

Play across the two Melbourne courses is counted together rather than course by course. The report's operating indicators show 87,394 rounds played on city golf courses in fiscal 2025, after 81,095 in 2024, 81,806 in 2023 and 64,059 in 2022 (Melbourne FY2025 ACFR, Schedule 18). The same report notes $940,000 in supplemental funding appropriated from reserves for 2025 due to the closure of Crane Creek Golf Course; the report does not give the dates of that closure.

Under a council resolution approved in 2024, Melbourne tracks Harbor City and Crane Creek Reserve in a separate Golf Courses special revenue fund instead of the city's General Fund.

The FY2025 annual financial report says the Golf Courses fund accounts for the operating revenues and expenditures of both Crane Creek and Harbor City golf courses, and that Council approved Resolution No. 4260 in 2024 to separate golf operations, moving 23 positions into the fund (Melbourne FY2025 ACFR). The report says the new fund allows a transparent view of the impact maintaining the courses has on General Fund resources. To set up the new fund, the General Fund transferred $903,577 to it, and the fund reported $3,224,299 in charges for services for the year ending September 30, 2025.

Golf has changed funds before. The report's statistical section says the golf courses were reclassified from an Enterprise fund into the General Fund, with 2019 figures restated, and that in 2020 the Golf Course Fund was transferred into the General Fund under Resolution 3936, passed at the June 9, 2020 City Council meeting (Melbourne FY2025 ACFR, statistical section). Older city reports therefore carry golf in different funds.

Both Melbourne courses are reclaimed water customers: the annual report says public access reclaimed water is applied by spray irrigation to City golf courses, and the Reclaimed Water page counts both courses among customers who help recycle an average of 2.2 million gallons a day (Melbourne Reclaimed Water page). The Crane Creek Reserve guide covers the city's New Haven Avenue course, its history and its lesson and pass details.

Last verified: October 21, 2026. Checked for Harbor City: Melbourne's Golf page with both rate lists and the FootGolf section, the Parks, Recreation and Golf department page, the Reclaimed Water page, the FY2025 ACFR golf fund notes and operating indicators, and the 2025 Year in Review.