Cabo Real Golf Club

Considered the toughest front nine in Los Cabos, the Cabo Real Golf Club is home of two Senior Slams and designed by famous golf vacation destination architect, Robert Trent Jones. The 6,988 yards show a high-quality course configured to provide an ocean view from each hole. The layout subtly blends with the environment, forming harmonious patterns made of desert hues, mountain and the ocean. Incorporating indigenous vistas with contemporary theories, Jones seem to have discovered many more brilliance in this course, than create it.

The expectation of any golfer for a risk and reward manifests in Cabo Real Golf Club, as players are inclined to head up the mountains during its initial six holes. That allows them to assess golf skills on this golf vacation course that offers difficulty and forces accuracy. First and third holes play for a par 5 that requires solid strikes to reach the green, or else the failed attempt will lead to penalty. The fifth hole, which is a long par 4, tickles professionals to view the left-hand side of the fairway, but necessitates a clean tee shot to the right over a ravine, in order to fulfil the shot without trouble.

Now, leading to the famous nine that plays for par 4 means tracing the reputable length of an extensive 51 by 125 yards where home of regional marine birdlife, the lake, protects the green. The magnificence of the view and the demands of the golf trip layout explains why it calls for the outstanding tournaments held here. In fact, the Senior Slam golf tournament placed Cabo Real Golf Club on the map in 1996. Since then, the course has never failed to gain more guest in and popularity, as a whole.

Cabo Del Sol – Ocean Course

“The best golf property I’ve ever seen”, course designer Jack Nicklaus said as he described Cabo Del Sol – Ocean Course, his second signature course located in Mexico. The golf vacation destination course capitalizes on the beauty and landscape of Los Cabos. It stretches more than a mile across the magnificent and awesome terrain of the West. A trip to this course means experiencing the most extraordinary golf experience with its unique and memorable layout.

This 18-hole regulation course offers a dramatic view of the desert, sea, and mountain. Being the centerpiece of the 1,800-acre residential resort community, Cabo Del Sol – Ocean Course poses against a wonderful backdrop contrasting the emerald green turf with the brilliant blue of the Sea of Cortez. The Ocean Course is framed by the natural desert landscape with giant cacti that tower over the perfectly manicured greens and tees. The spectacular layout places seven holes beside the coastline of craggy rock outcropping that is mounted from the golden shores. The par-4 18th hole doglegs from left to right, following the curve of the shoreline to large Oceanside green. A golf trip here will give the players the extraordinary fun from the fascinating beauty of the place up to the rewarding game play of the course.

Providing golfers with great strategy and picturesque views, Cabo Del Sol – Ocean Course makes for an exceptional golf vacation to players of different skill levels. The outstanding layout of the course offers any golfers to use every club in their bags from any of the 5 sets of tees. It’s a course like no other, truly a Nicklaus ingenuity.

Tuckers Point Golf Club

Most golfers today prefer golf courses that remain faithful to the natural landscape of a location. Putting their preferences to the test is the manmade lake of Tuckers Point Golf Club that volumes four gallon on one-acre of the acreage, creating the largest body of water in Bermuda. The lake adorns the irrigated private golf vacation destination redesigned by Roger Rulewich, in 2002, that extends up to 6,361-yards playing for par-70. With TifEagle putting above grounds, and new Bermuda hybrid grass, this course still provides an effect of authentic nature, something that golfers will relish from club-fitting to the last hole.

Overlooking the entire Tuckers Point Golf Club course is made accessible through the 20,000-square-foot clubhouse, where designs  compliment the entire hillside scene. The clubhouse serves as centerpiece with its prosperous facilities eager to provide guests and residential communities with first-class assistance. Reflecting Bermudian architecture, the golf vacation spot contains Grille Room and Lounge, Dining Room and Board Room, the Golf Pro Shop, locker rooms and ladies’ lounge.

Throughout the years, Tuckers Point Golf Club has maintained to offer the best golf trip experience. Because of that, it has gathered a number of prestigious recognitions including the 2005 World’s Best Golf Resorts issue, and top three in categories of Best Golf Resort and Best Restaurants in the Caribbean in the Travel + Leisure Golf’s readers. Additionally, the media praised this course saying “a total redesign of nearby Tucker’s Point Golf Club…has made it the equal in challenge and beauty of its better-known neighbour (Mid Ocean).”

Riddell’s Bay Golf Club

As one of the eight courses in the island of Bermuda, Riddell’s Bay Golf Club is located in the narrow peninsula that stretches to the Great Sound at the center of Warwick Parish. Originally designed by Devereuz Emmet, this golf vacation destination continues to improve its landscape in order to cater to the growing needs of golfers, since its establishment in 1922. But it was Ed Beidel, in 1994, who performed a significant facelift that lead to the fame of this course. As the course constantly presented new forms, it became an appealing spot in the Bermuda tourist market, effectively attracting new members in.

The 18-hole, par 69 Riddell’s Bay Golf Club approximately extends to 88 acres of land that plays to a maximum of 5,800 yards and 4,900 yards from the front of the forward tee boxes. The greens ranges from 3,200 to 6,700 square feet on this course that is short for contemporary standards, but with unpredictable wind velocity that casts demands to offset the initial easygoing appearance. For this reason, this golf vacation location has continually became the spot for renowned events like golf outings and tournaments.

The success of Riddell’s Bay Golf Club can be afforded to the dedicated collaboration of the ideas of architects and partners. As this golf trip location maintains with providing quality golf, guests has given it the label “quintessentially private and Bermudian” golf experience. The unrelenting improvements has definitely raised the bar on this course, and it is only a matter of time before it stands as the top of all golf courses in the world.

Half Moon Golf Club

Embodying “fertility” which is the symbolic meaning of a crescent moon, Half Moon Golf Club provides impressive undulating greens into the challenging holes and drives where luscious vistas serve as main attraction of this award-winning golf vacation location. Playing for par 72 on this championship course allows golfers to experience the wonderful architecture of Robert Trent Jones, Sr. The luxury embedded in this course makes it most sought after in all of Caribbean and in the world. The world-class amenities exhibit an architectural standard that shows how the makers went the extra mile to design this best course in Jamaica.

In 2005, Roger Rulewich’s renovation of the Half Moon Golf Club improved the attractions of the golf vacation destination course as he realigned the features, repositioned the fairways and greenside bunkers, and added complexes on the tee. Mindful not to diminish the integrity of this consistently unfailing 7,000 yards course, Rulewich maintained the natural direction of the land as he installed contemporary designs to improve the golf equipment, in order to meet modern golfers’ growing demands, while showcasing the magnificent beauty of Montego Bay.

Running for over 40 years, the Half Moon Golf Club has gathered numerous awards including the name “Best Caribbean Golf Resort” by Caribbean World Magazine and “2009 Golf Resort of the Year (Rest of World)” by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators. The fresh Bermuda grass and tropical breezes add to the reason why many consider it the best. Golfers love this course also because of its expert caddies made to help enhance a game with well-practised tips and new short-game techniques handed over by the golf trip instructor at the on-site golf academy.

Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course

Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course remains as a “land paradise”, which its earlier settlers calls it, despite redesigns from the renowned golf vacation architect, Jack Nicklaus, who also renamed it as Williamsburg National. Playing for 6,953 yards, where an old saw mill used to stand, the magnificent new landscape leads through dense hardwood forests, a stretch of impressive wetlands, abyssal ravines with lakes and ponds to adorn the scenery. Generous landing areas and large and fast greens define the fairways of this 18-hole course where water comes as basic play.

Several holes demand a strategically placed tee shot especially the number 16 with 201 yards playing for par 3, where golfers need to take a long carry outmatching heavy wetlands on the sizable dark greens. That characteristic adds to Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course‘ rating which is an impressive 72.9 and a slope of 126. Providing for more playability are four sets of tees and bent grass greens on the Bermuda fairways. Forty-five bunkers allow players to decide if they consider it a problem in this golf vacation destination, especially with the ample amount of water surrounding it is an element to grapple on.

Putting a label to the illustriousness of Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course are many recognitions including a vote on one of the “Ten Best Courses You Can Play in Virginia” by Golf Digest magazine and a top 10 course in Virginia. Golf Digest subscribers also threw 3 1/2 Star rating for this one of a kind golf trip destination.

Traditions at Stonehouse

Wild and billowing hills surround the Traditions at Stonehouse located at the rear of Williamsburg, Virginia. This golf vacation destination, near York River in the Tidewater Region,  shows a riotous mountain course displaying on a wide tract of heavy forested hills, where hardwoods stand the test of time. Designed by Mike Stranz, this course brims of mountain laurel, hollies, steep buffs and dashing valleys along rugged ridges and encompassing plateaus.

The Traditions at Stonehouse layout maneuvers through 6,962 yards playing for a par of 71, showing the longest tees with ratings that reveal a whopping 75 and a slope of 140. No amount to understate the magnificence of this golf vacation course with four sets of tees created to define playability and enjoyment; a place for golfers to test skill levels. For shorter arrivals, White tees toys for a steerable 6,111 yards still playing for a par of 71, but without any de-motivation as it rates to 71.4 in a slope of 133.

Evidently, Traditions at Stonehouse opened in 1996 to aim for nothing less than perfection. For that reason, it was named the “Best New Upscale Public Course in the Nation” and one of the “Top New Ten You Can Play” by golf Magazine. Awards carried on as it ranked top 6 in Virginia, in 2001, and “Top 100 You Can Play” and Golf & Travel’s list of “100 Best Modern Courses” by Golf Magazine’s, during that same year. In 2002, this golf trip location received 4 1/2 stars by Golf Digest. It continues to provide first-rate amenities, aside from the challenging golf course. A bar, dining area, practice facilities, and a pro shop are just among the many impressive offers on the list. Guests will surely create the best vacation experience here. 

Traditions at Royal New Kent

There are ideals for every golf vacation destination, such is evident in the conveniences that the amenities in Traditions at Royal New Kent offers, which are full-service bar, dining and meeting rooms, practice facilities, and a pro shop, consistent to the high standards of its main attraction, the golf course. The basis is the spectacularly manipulated landscape with greens that shy away behind sharp, grassy knolls, and rock walls that hand stack along tall meadow fescue grasses. The par 72 golf course also features 12 bunkers which grow shadows lining into the enormously smooth greens that has audacious swales and ridges. Each hole offers a different kind of game for a golfer.

While meeting standards is the basic effort of this golf vacation course, it constantly goes beyond great. Topping among the best public courses in Williamsburg in the 2010 Golfweek, this course, flowing 7,372 yards, is a mind-sweep windswept ruggedly landscaping a golfer’s strategical play. Traditions at Royal New Kent has been called the “the truest representation of an Irish links in America” because it is evocative of the Irish Landscape, where Royal County Down and Ballybunion were built, which fulfils the link-style vision of its architect, Mike Strantz.

The character of Traditions at Royal New Kent lead to several recognition  since 1997, when it first received the honor as “Best New Upscale Public Course in the Nation” by Golf Digest and No. 23 on Golf Magazines’s Top 100 you can play. Two years after that, this golf trip course received another name as one of “America’s Top 100 Greatest Golf Courses” by Golf Digest. After the millennium, Golf Digest placed it among the top three courses in Virginia with 4 1/2 star ratings. The course is traditions painted in royalty.

The Crossings Golf Club

Natural landscape is one of the main foundations of The Crossings Golf Club, which is designed by the celebrated golf creator, Joe Lee. The layout of this golf vacation course is defined by a combination of rolling fairways with a thick forest bordering the strikingly positioned bunkers. Used to by known as Halfe Sink area, the front nine of this course commences with an elevated tee that gives a sight of the landing spot and many holes to offer.

The 18-hole championship course is located in the interior of American Civil War battlefields in Richmond, Virgina. Considered as a ‘must-play’ golf vacation destination by most of the local communities, The Crossings Golf Club is a simple drive from Washington D. C., which means traveller’s easy access to the I-95. The dramatic history lingering in the place constantly attracts more visitors in especially with the immediate grasp of the past specifically on Civil War, the Confederacy, and the black people of the time. Other nearby landmarks include Bryd Theater and the Colonial Williamsburg.

The spectacular golf trip layout, as well as, the dramatic history exhibited in The Crossings Golf Club are the prime reasons why it continues to become a topographic point for prestigious golf tournaments. Because of that, the course has garnered several recognitions including the U.S. Publinks Championship, Nike Tour qualifying, and the first choice for 100 corporate outings for a year. Any player would remain in awe while playing in this course, and would experience a worthwhile and educational vacation. Joe Lee has definitely hit the success button.

Kingsmill Resort – Woods Course

A golf vacation destination designed by two renowned people — two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange and golf course architect Tom Clark— may be expected to be boastful in nature. But that character is far from the modest attitude of Kingsmill Resort – Woods Course that is located in a private corner on the resort. The parkland-style golf course, with its wide fairways, large greens and water hazards, compliments with the well-conditioned natural beauty of the area.

Each hole of the Kingsmill Resort – Woods Course has unique golf trip attributes. The opening hole, that plays for par 4 on a 385 yards of amazing landscape, requires a tee that needs to favor the fairways on the left, in order to avoid a bunker on the right. The putts call for serious caution because the tilts of the greens forces a risk taking play. The 9th hole is a long par 5 that needs a tee shot in the fairway. Doing so will avoid the tall trees on the left and the intimidating hill on the right. Distance control on the front pin is a requirement in order to swale on the backside of this area. The last hole commands tactical two shots in order to finish. The perilously guarded area and multi-tiered green add to the thrilling feel of this specific hole.

The countless amazing features of the Kingsmill Resort – Woods Course are the basic elements why it was honored by GOLF magazine as one of the “Top Ten Courses Available for Public Play”. As soon as it opened as a newest addition to the Kingsmill Resort golf vacation destinations‘ family, many have become attracted to its seemingly quintessential orientation that has a mix of bewilderment, new to the Virginia golf community.