| If you love golf, you’re going
to love Puerto Rico, the golf capital of the Caribbean. There are
currently 23 spectacular golf courses on the island and six more are
underway. Golf is such a passion locally that the island’s 10,000
active golfers are anxiously awaiting the World Amateur Team Championships
to be held here in the fall of 2004. This international event will
be the crowning moment of the Puerto Rico Golf Association’s
50th anniversary celebration.
You don’t need to be a world champ to appreciate the beauty
and variety of our courses. Most have been designed by golf luminaries
such as Robert Trent Jones, his son Rees Jones, Greg Norman, George
and Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, Arthur Hills, and Puerto Rico’s
own Chi Chi Rodríguez. The courses are feats of landscape
architecture that impress golfers and non-players alike.
All of Puerto Rico’s courses share the island’s year-round
summer weather, tempered by the cool, gentle breezes of the trade
winds. You are almost guaranteed a brilliant tropical sky and glimpses
of sparkling white sand beaches backed by the blue Atlantic or the
turquoise Caribbean. The greens are truly green, planted with strains
of Bermuda grass adapted for our climate, including Tiff Dwarf and
GN1, a new hybrid, developed in Florida by Greg Norman.
Many of our golf courses are part of world-class resorts, so after
you have played to your heart’s content, you can relax in
the pool and recharge your batteries in the spa before getting back
to breaking par. You don’t have to be a hotel guest, however.
All courses – except those on military installations, which
are limited to authorized personnel – are open to the general
public.
Whether you are a first timer or a seasoned pro, Puerto Rico has
the perfect course for you. Get all the details for the courses
in the following pages:
Aguirre Golf Club
Bahia Beach Plantation
Bambuas Golf Course & Ciudad Jardin Resort and Country Club
Berwind Country Club
Club Deportivo del Oeste
Coamo Springs Golf & Tennis Club
Coco Beach Golf & Country Club
Costa Caribe Golf and Country Club
Dorado del Mar
El Conquistador Resort
El Legado
Ft. Buchanan Golf Club
Hyatt Dorado Beach Resort: East Course
Hyatt Dorado Beach Resort: West Course
Plantation Club North Course
Plantation Club South Course
Palmas del Mar: Palm Course
Palmas del Mar: Flamboyán Course
Punta Borinquen Golf Club
Westin Río Mar Beach River Course
Westin Río Mar Beach Ocean Course
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