PGA Ocean’s 4 opened in late 2017. The course emerged adapting to the existing terrain at the edge of the Caribbean Sea. It’s located on the breathtakingly beautiful Playa Nueva Romana Bay on the southern coast of the country, about 60 miles east of Santo Domingo and 15 miles from the popular town of La Romana. Its location is key, at an equal distance from the capital of the country and the tourist area of Punta Cana.
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Diamante Dunes course, ranked #1 in Mexico weaves its way through spectacular Pacific dunes and boasts amazing views of beach and ocean from nearly every hole. Add to that an awe-inspiring 14-acre practice facility, clubhouse restaurants and bars, retail center, on-course comfort stations every three holes, and Diamante’s signature service, and you’ve got an unforgettable golf experience.
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Influenced by the old-style courses of Southern California that he grew up playing, Tiger created a course that brings back the need for strategy—providing players with several shot options to navigate during each hole. The course is long enough to challenge expert players, but open enough to provides options for those with higher handicaps. It truly is a fun test for golfers of all skill levels.
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West Cliffs Golf Course has been designed to perfectly fit into the natural environment and create one of the most wonderful golf experiences. Nature is in abundance and from every hole there is a stunning view over the Atlantic Ocean and Óbidos Lagoon.
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The Tryall Club offers a golf course with a varied terrain whose borders skirt the shoreline and climb up forested hills.
Jungle ravines and coconut groves that are scattered throughout this championship course provide a scenic tropical setting. The Tryall Club layout features an interesting variety of holes that can be played several different ways due to their unique challenges, guaranteeing that a round on this course will never be boring.
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The La Iguana golf course in Costa Rica features 18 holes designed by Ted Robinson located at the Los Suenos Resort and situated alongside an exotic rain forest with breathtaking ocean views. This Costa Rica golfing gem is richly landscaped to include exotic native plants, banana trees, orchids, monkeys and more than 150 species of birds and local wildlife.
Knowledgeable golf guides are happy to point out all the beautiful Costa Rica highlights of this thrilling course. The mesmerizing scenery masks a challenging game – one well worth conquering. The 6,700 yard course rating is 73.4, par is 72 and slope 145. Los Suenos is located about 1 hour from San Jose and 2 hours from Liberia airport.
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The White Witch Golf Course at Rose Hall is named after one of Jamaica’s most famous legends, Annie Palmer who was called the “White Witch of Rose Hall.” It is rumored that her spirit haunts the Rose Hall estate, including the golf course. Rather than a tropical setting, the course has a unique mountainous terrain but the vibrant foliage, tradewinds, and pleasant ocean views are still in keeping with its Caribbean location. The golf course is challenging with an intimidating layout that features dramatic elevation changes and numerous well-placed bunkers.
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Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed the golf course at Half Moon Golf Club, which opened in 1961. The course features one of Jones’ trademarks, runway tees, undulating greens and a tricky “figure eight” layout with angles that are hard to handle on windy days. Numerous bunkers are strategically situated around the fairways and greens for even more challenge. Due to the course’s difficult yet playable nature, Half Moon Golf Club is a popular destination for golfers.
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The Cinnamon Hill Course at the Rose Hall Resort is situated on what used to be a large sugar plantation. Jamaica’s past history is still present throughout the golf course in the form of graveyards and ruins of old homes. One of these homes, which can be seen from the second hole of the golf course, is the historic former house of Annie Palmer who was called the “White Witch of Rose Hall.” The golf course’s layout begins fairly open but gradually moves into the lower elevations of the Blue Mountains, where there is dense foliage guarding the fairways.
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Four Seasons Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo, the name says it all. One of “Best 100 Courses outside the United States” by Golf Digest, this Arnold Palmer course is a golfer’s paradise. The Four Seasons golf course is a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. The signature 6th hole is a par 4 featuring a huge drop and awesome view of the Pacific Ocean. Play this course to enjoy seeing howler monkeys and plentiful flora. The course is located in a remote setting but available with 1 hour drive for our client staying at the Westin Playa Conchal Resort.
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The Golf Course at Hacienda Pinilla offers one of the finest settings for links enjoyment in a country renowned for its golf tradition. Created by respected architect Mike Young, the layout conforms gracefully to the natural flow of the land, weaving through the tropical forest along the shores of the Pacific to provide an unparalleled blue water backdrop. This par 72 course, which can play up to 7,200 yards, was designed to enhance the natural landscape of Hacienda Pinilla.
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Reserva Conchal golf course is located in Guanaste near the town of Brasilito and close to major attractions like Flamingo beach, Tamarindo, and Coco beach. This golf course is part of the Reserva Conchal resort that houses the Westin Playa Conchal. Reserva Conchal golf course is a Robert Trent Jones II design that has a mix of easy and tough holes. What makes this course special is the mix of rainforest and ocean scenery. This is one of the top three golf courses in Costa Rica.
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This Robert Trent Jones golf course has 27 holes cut on the deepest part of a limestone quarry and fairways spreading out over the dense jungle. The architects managed efficiently to integrate the Peninsula natural wonders into the golf course design. Riviera Maya Golf Club has an 18 hole Championship par 72 plus an executive 9 holes par 3 course. With more than 90 acres of construction right at the heart of a tropical forest of more than 290 acres, this course has quickly turned into one of the most prestigious developments in the Mayan Riviera.
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Designed by British Open Champion Tom Weiskopf, this courses is the closest to downtown Cancun and the airport. Weiskopf incorporated traps along manicured greens and utilized the shoreline and marina as hazards on holes like the 14th, which plays parallel to the beach. Privately set amid the natural beauty of a 74 hectare ecological reserve, the course features breathtaking views of the turquoise Caribbean and inner canals. Puerto Cancun is set in a residential urban area and available for play for Sophisticated Golfer clients.
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Moon Palace Spa & Golf Course Resort, designed by Jack Nicklaus is located at the Moon Palace Resort complex just 10 minutes from Cancun airport. The area is surrounded by lush jungle and the course design respects the natural surroundings. Palace Resorts Mexico Golf Courses features a unique golfing concept with 27 holes made up of three different nine hole courses in which you can choose to play 18 holes by playing 2 of the 3 courses. The 3 nine hole courses are named dunes, jungle and lakes.
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El Camaleon host of the PGA Tour’s Mayakoba Golf Classic is located inside the Mayakoba development, 30 minutes from Cancun. Designed by Greg Norman, is unique in the golf world. As its name suggests, El Camaleón is ever changing. The stunning Playa Del Carmen golf course bends through 3 distinct landscapes -dense tropical jungles, mangrove forests, and stunning oceanfront stretches of sand. Norman has even incorporated a cenote, an ancient underground cavern into the center of the opening fairway.
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This beautiful Par 3 golf course located at the Fairmont Southampton Resort requires skillful iron play. Turtle Hill is an 18-hole, Par 3 course features several lakes, undulating terrain, and panoramic ocean views. It’s one of the finest par 3 courses anywhere in the world at a landmark luxurious Bermuda resort. It’s a great compliment to any stay at both Fairmont resorts on the island.
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Tucker’s Point Golf Club is perched on the site of the former Castle Harbour Course, Tucker’s Point Golf Club re-opened in 2002 after a re-design and re-planting of the greens with Tiff Eagle Bermuda Grass. Tucker’s Point is located near Bermuda’s airport on the opposite end of the island from Port Royal. The golf course is further complimented by the adjoining luxury Rosewood Tuckers Point resort.
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Port Royal Country Club is a Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design and features some of the most picturesque and dramatic holes in golf, highlighted by the stunning par 3 16th. Jack Nicklaus has ranked Port Royal among the world’s best public courses. Port Royal Golf Course opened for play in 1970, and is more than adequate evidence of the genius of architect Robert Trent Jones. Playing from the back tees, this par 71 course challenges even the finest players from the first to the 18th hole. Port Royal was redesigned in 2009 and hosted the PGA Tour’s Grand Slam.
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Mid Ocean Club is Bermuda’s most famous and best golf course. Mid Ocean is a private course with limited access. Sophisticated Golfer can help with play on Mid-Ocean if guests are staying at one of our preferred properties. The course is consistently ranked among the top 50 links in the world and always in the top 10 Caribbean/Mexico. Mid Ocean Club is a classic, built in 1921 by renowned architect, Charles Blair Macdonald.
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The Links at Royal Isabela extend dramatically along cliffs 200 feet above the ocean, and drop to areas of natural sand dunes along the Atlantic. The course is alive with native plants, birds and butterflies. Sod-faced bunkers add a Scottish flair to this island gem. All of these elements, along with trade winds that are your friend one moment and your foe the next, shape the course’s character and captivate the golf purist. Sophisticated Golfer client stay at the Resort at Royal Isabela for play on this scenic Caribbean golf gem.
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The Rio Mar is home to this championship courses designed by Greg Norman in 1997. This was Norman’s first design in the Caribbean and plays to 6,931 yards. It is a marriage of the dense swath of tropical land that runs along the Mameyes River combined with Norman’s own vision for a great Puerto Rico golf course. It is an exciting course that maximizes the aesthetic gifts of the land.
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The Ocean course is the second of the 2 golf courses at the resort and was designed by George and Tom Fazio in 1975 when premium resort golf was only beginning to spring up around the Caribbean. This creation was in the later years of the uncle-nephew architecture team, before Tom would branch out on his own to become one of the preeminent architects of today. The 6,782-yard course, like many great resort courses, follows a dramatic trajectory in design before building to a climactic close.
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Located in the town of Rio Grande, 30 minutes from San Juan at the foothills of the world famous El Yunque Rainforest, The International Course at Coco Beach is spread over one thousand lush acres on the Atlantic coast. Along with the longer Championship layout, the courses was designed by Tom Kite. The International Course runs through beautiful hills and then sits on green mangroves for a challenging yet beautiful golf setting.
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The Championship Course at Coco Beach begins among spectacular man-made lakes and follows to the ocean with incredible water views. Both courses at Coco Beach were designed by Tom Kite. The course winds through lush tree groves and over waterways and lakes, amid tropical blooms and past scenic bluffs, delivering an unparalleled golfing experience. The Championship golf course at hosted an official PGA Tour Event, the Puerto Rico Open.
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Bahía Beach Golf Course is a scenic 6,979-yard layout overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, 80 acres of saltwater lagoons and the mountainous El Yunque National Rainforest. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. Bahia Beach was created around a network of saltwater lagoons as fifteen of the 18 holes border some form of water, as the course takes a means being route around the lagoons before emerging onto the Atlantic coast for the final three holes.
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Located on the Dominican’s north coast this was Robert Trent Jones’ final design in 1997. Playa Grande has been called “the Pebble Beach of the Caribbean” because 10 holes of the hilly 7,085-yard, par 72 layout wind along Atlantic-facing cliffs 60 feet high. The scenic views of the ocean, verdant mountains and exquisite beaches are augmented by groves of mature trees and tall stands of palms. The luxurious five star Amanera Resort opened in 2016 affiliated with Playa Grande.
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Along with the Lakes, Cana Bay is another of the top inland course in the Punta Cana region. 18 holes of championship golf designed by Nicklaus Golf. At 7,253 yards the course provides a stunning collection of challenging yet accommodating golf. The course meanders through breathtaking Dominican landscapes full of native flora and fauna. Cana Bay is located adjacent to the popular Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana.
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The Lakes was completely re-designed by P.B. Dye, who turned this course into one of the best inland courses in the Dominican Republic. Barceló Bavaro Lakes golf course offers a nature experience like no other. Waterways and big lakes come into play on almost every hole, and the nature wildlife is unlike any other. The course is not long, but features narrow fairways, island green and well hidden bunkers.
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The Links was the second course built by Pete Dye was designed and opened in 1975, then completely redesigned in 2012. This course is located within the resort’s residential community and was completely remodeled and designed in 2011. With its residential and links style setting, the Links course provides a great contrast from both Teeth of the Dog which winds its way along the Ocean and Dye Fore that is set amidst the bluffs and rocky terrain.
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Dye Fore at Casa de Campo opened in April 2003. It offers 18 holes running parallel to the Chavon River with a breathtaking view of mountains to the north or the Caribbean Sea to the south. Dye Fore, is a daunting 7,700-yard track carved from an inland bluff, is at its best the farther it travels from the ocean. The course now has 27 total holes with the 3rd nine completed in 2012.
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Perhaps the best golf course in the Caribbean today, Teeth of the Dog was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1971. The Teeth of the Dog course has been ranked as high as 35th in the world. It has eight holes on the ocean with seven holes right on the coast and then another with its green near the water. Without much rough or trees to speak of, it’s the ocean and the wind that need to be managed. This is the most famous of all Caribbean courses and a bucket list course.
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Punta Espada Golf Club is ranked as the best golf course in the Caribbean and Mexico by GolfWeek. The course is located inside the Cap Cana development, 25 minutes south of PUJ and was designed by Jack Nicklaus in 2005. Eight holes run directly along the Caribbean Sea and spectacular views are had from all eighteen. Punta Espada was designed to incorporate the natural features of the landscape into its topography; the bluffs, the beach, the waterways and the foliage.
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La Cana’s ocean front and sea view holes are a sight to remember. This P.B. Dye golf course now offers 27-holes on Tortuga, Hacienda or Arrecife you will always find the charm and challenges that P.B. Dye designs offer. La Cana features turquoise waters, winding and rolling fairways and hidden bunkers. It was the first premier course in the Punta Cana ‘region’ of the Dominican Republic.
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Designed along the natural cliffs, bays and coves of the sea, the inland lakes and coralina quarries the Corales golf course now rates among the World’s finest golf experiences. The exhilarating challenge culminates playing the Devil’s Elbow, Corales’ last three holes. The Devil’s Elbow features the striking eighteenth hole with a dramatic forced carry over the cliff lined Bay of Corales, an inspired capstone to a memorable and breathtaking golf experience.
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Penha Longa Atlántico is another one of Europe’s best golf courses. Integrated within the luxury Penha Longa resort near Sintra, the 72 Atlântico course sits within a protected natural reserve overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Penha Longa’s was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, who took full advantage of the spectacular setting and designed exceptional layout. Penha Longa sits on an exposed plateau and when gusts are funneled across the mountains. The par-five 6th is a signature hole, a picture postcard green framed by a lake and a centuries-old aqueduct and castle tower.
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The world-class Oitavos Dunes is a stunning natural links golf course designed by Arthur Hills. The course is located in a natural park situated between Cascais and the hills of Sintra. Oitavos is a course that has been designed to take advantage of its environment and sea views through the pine wood forest which surrounds all its holes. The superb design and immaculate condition makes this Lisbon’s finest course. The modern 5 star Oitavos Hotel is a Sophisticated Golfer top recommendation for golf travel accommodations near Lisbon.
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The Dunas Course opened in 2023 and quickly found its name listed on the World’s Best New Courses. Dunas Golf Course is now in the top 10 best courses in Continental Europe, the highest ranking ever for a new golf course. The holes are played over sandy dunes that fringe the beaches, where the breeze constantly blows. Dunas is a beautiful, natural, and uncontrived golf course, a true links, unique throughout southern Europe.
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The Royal Golf Course located in the Algarve region is a prestigious 18-hole championship course, considered one of the most challenging courses in the country. The Royal course offers amazing views, especially on the par three 16th which features a cliff-top carry. The Ocean course at the Vale do Lobo Golf Club boasts five ocean holes that take you closer to the water than any other course in the Algarve. Both are recognized as Portugal’s most prestigious golf courses.
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Quinta do Lago South Course has played host to the Portuguese Open 8 times. Designed in 1974 by William Mitchell, who raised the bar by introducing American-standard greens, tees and bunkers to the Algarve, it soon gained a reputation as one of the foremost courses in Europe and remains to this day one of the flagship European Tour Courses. The favorite course of many European tour players, it’s set amongst umbrella pines, lakes and wild flowers, overlooking the spectacular scenery of the Ria Formosa National Park.
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This sister course to the also impressive Quinta da Ria is one of true Championship character. Quinta de Cima is set in rolling land dotted with almond trees. The course features open fairways and well placed bunkers. The area around Quinta de Cima and Quinta da Ria golf coures is located in protected national reserve surrounded by the sea and the Algarvean mountains.
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Situated in the heart of Vilamoura 20 minute drive from Faro airport, it’s one of the oldest in the region and renowned all over the golfing world. The ‘Grande Dame’ of Algarve courses, it meanders throughout impressive pine trees over gently undulating natural terrain. This course opened in 1969 and was designed by Frank Pennink.
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Monte Rei is located in the eastern Algarve among a rugged landscape studded with cork oak and olive trees. The course is within striking distance of the coast and an assortment of resorts and amenities, although Sophisticated Golfer recommends staying in the on-site villas taking advantage of the excellent five-star clubhouse facilities. The undulating 18-hole par-72 layout is just one of a handful of Jack Nicklaus signature courses in Europe.
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The exclusive Quinta do Lago community boast 3 championship level golf courses, the South Course, North Course and Laranjal. The South has played host to the Portuguese Open 8 times and remains to this day one of the flagship European Tour Courses. The South is set amongst umbrella pines, lakes and wildflowers, overlooking the spectacular scenery of the Ria Formosa National Park. The North course is the newest of the three and also features magnificent views. While the Larajal course winds its way through and orange grove.
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One of the most popular golf courses in Portugal and finest in Europe, San Lorenzo Golf course enjoys a magnificent location on the exclusive Quinta do Lago estate in the Algarve. Designed by Joe Lee, the course is laid out in a figure of eight. San Lorenzo is surrounded by some of the most appealing landscapes in the Algarve: the serene Ria Formosa estuary, with its shallow lagoons and golden beaches, provides a suitably beguiling backdrop. The course is only open to Sophisticated Golfer’s clients staying at the glamorous Dona Filipa Hotel.
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Chateau de Taulane is a challenging course that was designed by Gary Player and is set in the heart of Provence mountains 3000 feet above sea level. The course surrounds the chateau in a wild and natural landscape, offering spectacular views of the mountain ranges. Both the 9th and 18th holes end in front of the chateau with a huge double green defended by a water hazard.
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Set in a wonderful Provencal landscape, Royal Mougins is a private International Golf Club ranked as one of Europe’s best. Robert Van Hagge created an exciting and spectacular golf course where club selection is a key point to keep the ball in play and avoid the water hazards. After golf enjoy a drink and take in the views from the French country style clubhouse.
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Opened in 1923, the Cannes Country Club was founded by prestigious members such as Prince Pierre de Monaco, Aga Kahn, or Baron Edouard de Rothschild. Its original design was signed by Colt and Simpson, the most famous architects in the twenties, and then redesigned by Thomas and Alliss in 1978. This sumptuous parkland course has hosted the Cannes Mougins Open 14 times. The club is set in a magnificent stone wall estate overlooked by an 18th century oil mill and surrounded by oaks, pine-trees and fields of jasmine.
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Designed by the British Architect Dave Thomas it winds through pine and oak clad hills and valleys providing golfers with sweeping view of surrounding villages and the Southern Alps. A long and demanding course with several water hazards to test the skill of the advanced player. Le Chateau course is located at beautiful the Terre Blanche Resort. It’s one of the best golf courses in France.
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Designed by the British Architect Dave Thomas it winds through pine and oak clad hills and valleys providing golfers with sweeping view of surrounding villages and the Southern Alps. A long and demanding course with several water hazards to test the skill of the advanced player. Le Chateau course is located at beautiful the Terre Blanche Resort. It’s one of the best golf courses in France.
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