Three-bedroom homes for a golf week in Port St. Lucie
If you want three bedrooms in Port St. Lucie and your week is built around golf at PGA Village, we have two homes that match the brief exactly: Barefoot Bungalow, a three-bedroom house with a screened pool and a hot tub, sleeping six, and Poolside Palms, a three-bedroom, three-bath pool home on a full acre that sleeps eighteen. Both are single-family houses in Port St. Lucie, not condos, and both are managed by us rather than listed and forgotten. Everything else in this piece is about which one suits the group you are actually bringing.
Worth knowing before you start comparing: PGA Golf Club sits at the north end of town, just off I-95 at the St. Lucie West exit, with three championship courses in one place, the Wanamaker, the Ryder and the Dye, plus a short course and the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance next door. Clover Park, where the Mets hold spring training, is a couple of miles from the same exit. That cluster is why a golf trip here works: you drive to one address in the morning and you are back in your own kitchen by mid-afternoon.
Barefoot Bungalow, when it's four of you and a tee time
Three bedrooms, six guests, a screened pool and a hot tub on a cul-de-sac in Floresta Pines. For a foursome, or two couples, or a family where one parent golfs and the other does not, this is the house that fits without rattling around.
The hot tub is the part people underrate. Florida golf in January means early tee times and a cool morning wind, and forty-five minutes in a jacuzzi afterwards does more for a sore back than anything in the clubhouse shop. The pool cage matters too, because screened outdoor space is the difference between sitting out in the evening and going inside. There's an outdoor kitchen and a dining area on the covered lanai, so dinner after a round happens where you already are, and an outdoor shower for the sand if you drive out to the coast. One bedroom is set up with a workspace, which has saved more than one guest who extended a trip by two days.
It's also pet-friendly, and it has a washer and dryer, which on a golf week means your polos get a second outing instead of taking up suitcase space.
Poolside Palms, when the "three-bedroom" search is hiding a bigger group
Three bedrooms, eighteen people, three full bathrooms and an acre of land. That combination is unusual enough to be worth saying plainly: most three-bedroom rentals cap out at six or eight, and this one does not, because the bedrooms are built for it rather than the headline being stretched.
The bathroom count is the real story. Three full baths against three bedrooms means a group of twelve can get out the door for a 7:40 tee time without a queue in the hallway, which is the single most common friction point on a golf trip with friends. The primary bedroom has its own en-suite, so whoever is organising the week gets to shut a door on everyone else.
Outside, the acre does what a standard Port St. Lucie lot cannot: the private pool and the patio sit far enough from the fence line that a late evening is a late evening and not a conversation with the neighbours. There's an outdoor dining area and an outdoor shower. Pets are welcome here too, with a fee per pet, and guests tend to use the blackout curtains more than they expect given how early the Florida sun arrives. Our highest-rated Port St. Lucie home, incidentally, across fourteen stays reviewed.
Choosing between the two
Four to six people: Barefoot Bungalow. Six is its listed maximum and the house is sized for it, with the hot tub and the screened lanai doing the heavy lifting on a golf week.
Eight and up, still wanting three bedrooms: Poolside Palms, for the three bathrooms and the acre.
Travelling with a dog: either one takes pets.
Someone working remotely for part of the trip: Barefoot Bungalow has a dedicated workspace in a bedroom. Both have Wi-Fi and laundry.
Soaking after a round: only Barefoot Bungalow has the hot tub.
When the group outgrows three bedrooms
Golf groups have a habit of growing between the first message and the deposit. If a fourth couple joins, or the kids come, four other Port St. Lucie houses are worth looking at before you split into two rentals.
Casa Azul is four bedrooms for ten, with a private pool and spa, and a ping pong table that quietly settles the evening's entertainment. Pool and spa heating is optional there and has to be arranged in advance for a small daily charge, which is worth doing in January and pointless in May. No pets at this one.
Splash & Stay takes fourteen across four bedrooms and runs a heated pool with a waterfall, plus a five-burner gas griddle outside with a cooking surface big enough to feed the whole group at once. It's a practical house for a team or a large family: game room, high chair, crib. One thing to plan for, because it has caught people out: parking is one car in the garage and up to four on the driveway, with no street parking at all. Three cars for a golf group is fine. Six is not.
Palm Paradise is the biggest of them, sleeping sixteen, with a saltwater pool, an outdoor kitchen with a grill and sink, a gas fire pit, and indoors a movie room with a projector, a Pac-Man arcade cabinet and a popcorn machine. It is built for reunions, and it is the house where the non-golfers have the better day.
There's also Heated Pool Oasis, three bedrooms sleeping eleven, with a heated pool and a screened Florida room, if you want the three-bedroom footprint with more beds than Barefoot Bungalow holds.
Days when nobody wants to play
Someone in the group always skips a round. Clover Park runs Mets spring training and St. Lucie Mets games in season, and it's close enough to the PGA Village end of town that you can go for an afternoon without committing the day. The Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens are a short drive, and the Savannas Preserve State Park gives you trails and kayaking on the wetlands side of town. PopStroke does two outdoor putting courses with food and drinks, which is the version of golf that works with children. The Atlantic beaches on Hutchinson Island and at Jensen Beach are around half an hour east. Downtown Stuart, with its waterfront restaurants and Riverwalk, is a reasonable evening out when you want a change from cooking.
Booking it
Book direct with us and there are no platform fees in the middle. These are locally managed homes: professional cleaning and maintenance between stays, self check-in so a late flight into Palm Beach or Fort Pierce doesn't become someone's problem, and 24/7 guest support if something needs fixing at nine on a Sunday. Each home has a starter kit on arrival, enough coffee, paper towels and laundry pods to get you through the first morning, and a guest portal with our own local recommendations.
Two practical notes. Every one of these homes requires a signed rental agreement and ID verification before arrival instructions go out, which we handle through a simple web link rather than an app. And rates, minimum stays and availability move with the season, so check your dates on the property page and message us if you're deciding between two houses. We know both of them well enough to tell you which one your group will actually enjoy.
