Play
Around Or Play A Round while enjoying your very own Caribbean vacation. The
famous Playa Grande Golf Course is
a Caribbean golf vacation at its best! Playa Grande Resort Golf
Course carries the signature of Robert Trent Jones, Sr. When
Mr. Jones visited the property in 1992, he is said to have actually
cried when told he'd been chosen to be the architect. The course took
from '93 to '97 to complete. Mr. Jones did the routing and his associates
did the on-site work.
One of the World’s Greatest? This course has that kind of serious
potential. It’s set high above the ocean and it plays along 100-foot
bluffs. That makes it immediately comparable to Pebble Beach, a thought
that sounds almost sacrilegious. But then, consider that Pebble has
only six holes on the Oceanside bluffs (6-7-8-9-10-18), while Playa
Grande has 10.
The fairways are incredibly lush since everything grows so well here,
and the course is naturally landscaped with native flowers. Greens
are huge, varied in shape and steeply sloped, but with few tricky undulations.
Generally, what you see is what you get. The standard, "challenging
for the best players, but playable for everybody" actually applies
here.
This course really has no negatives. It has the spectacular oceanfront
setting, it has hills, and it has the widest possible choice of tees,
allowing the course to be played from 4,488 yards all the way back
to over 7,000 yards.
This course is always less crowded than any other course of this kind. From
the back tees, a player looking for the shortest route must carry over
corners of the ocean on six holes (3-4-7-12-14-18). But from shorter
tees, fairways are extremely wide, and all greens except the seventh
are open for a run-up shot. Because of Playa Grande’s relative
remoteness, word hasn't yet spread of its prominence. For now, it’s
the Caribbean’s best kept secret, with none of the overcrowding
of typical resort courses. In the off-season you don't even need a
tee time. As for the beverage cart girls, well, they're around all
year long.
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