By Dave Finn as revealed within the October 2024 problem of Golf Central Journal
What’s your pleasure? Is it wading into the Caribbean Sea or plunging into the crystal-clear freshwater cenotes? It’s exploring the various archeological websites or just chilling across the pool with a cool beverage. Both manner the Riviera Maya Golf in Mexico is the right winter getaway – me included, on multiple event. It stretches over 140kms alongside the japanese Yucatan Peninsula from Tulum to only south of Cancun and is house to a number of world-class golf programs simply ready to be performed. Here’s a fast rundown of the programs I’ve not too long ago performed simply to ‘whet your whistle’.
El Camaleón Golf Course is a Greg Norman design and the one resort in Mexico to host an annual PGA Tour occasion and now the LIV Golf League. Just like the lizard able to altering colours to mix in with their environment, this course delicately winds by the delicate jungles, mangrove swamps and alongside magnificent ocean vistas.
Iberostar Paraiso Golf Membership is positioned proper subsequent door to Mayakoba, about half-hour south of the Cancun Worldwide Airport. Carved from an historic Mayan jungle, each effort has been made to protect the pure heritage of the property. P.B. Dye’s “DYEabolical” design boasts extra crests and swales then the adjoining Caribbean Sea.
Iberostar Playa Paraiso – Gap 6
Moon Palace Cancun is house to the primary Jack Nicklaus Signature course within the space and when it was in-built 2002 it started to lift the bar on golf programs within the area. The unique 18, generally known as the Jungle and Lakes nines, intertwines by dense jungle and rocky sloped lagoons. In 2005, the Dunes 9 was unveiled with a desert really feel and huge waste areas that come into play on most holes.
Moon Palace – Dunes seventh Tee
PGA Riviera Maya Golf Membership is the southernmost golf course, simply minutes north of Tulum. This Robert Trent Jones Jr. course opened in 2010 however has grow to be a perennial favourite. The design consists of an 18-hole par 72 championship format in addition to a 9-hole par 3 course with loads of pure lakes.
PGA Riviera Maya Gap 15
Vidanta Riviera Maya is a Jack Nicklaus Design and probably the greatest collections of par threes you’ll ever play. The truth is, I’ll exit on a limb and say virtually each gap may very well be a signature gap wherever else. This par 54 is enjoyable for everybody within the household however will certainly take a look at your brief recreation.
Vidanta Riviera Maya
Gran Coyote Golf Carasol is a Nick Worth design that opened in 2011. If everybody in your occasion shouldn’t be as ‘avid’ of a golfer as you, I can recommend this player-friendly 18-hole par 71, since it’s by far essentially the most forgiving course within the space with extensive and comparatively flat fairways. Additionally it is the closest course to Playa del Carmen so ensure you take pleasure in a stroll alongside the La Quinta Avenida Avenue mall with a smorgasbord of eating institutions, continuous purchasing and greater than a bar of two the place you possibly can indulge with a chilly cerveza whereas individuals watching.
Gran Coyote Golf Carasol
Inexperienced charges should not low cost on the ‘Riviera’ however the entire golf equipment embrace an influence cart and a few are all-inclusive with meals and drinks offered on the course. Most will even decide you up at your resort and convey you again after your spherical. What’s to not like. Más cerveza por favor.
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