Cabo San Lucas Golf

Los Cabos, on the tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, is among the world’s fastest growing golf destinations. And it’s no wonder, since this beautiful region features world-class links in a dramatic setting that includes unspoiled desert landscape, white sand beaches and strange rock outcroppings.

Los Cabos has become one of the premier golf destination in Mexico. There are five champion ship golf courses. The Palmilla and Cabo del Sol courses are designed by Jack Nicklaus, the Cabo San Lucas Country Club was created by Roy Dye and the Cabo Real Golf Resort was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. There is also an excellent nine hole public course at Campo de Golf San Jose.

The first course to be unveiled was the Jack Nicklaus golf course at Palmilla Golf Club, part of the 900-acre Palmilla resort. The par-36, 3,464-yard layout features a variety of scenic holes, many with stunning views of the Sea of Cortez.

Another Nicklaus-designed course, called El Dorado, opened on April 15, at the Cabo Real Golf Resort.

The course is the second facility at Cabo Real, located in a development that includes four upscale hotels: Casa del Mar, Las Ventanas al Paraiso, Melia Cabo Real and Melia Los Cabos All-Suites. The new course features a challenging championship layout with six holes that skirt the ocean and the remaining 12 carved out of two pristine canyons. El Dorado offers golfers the challenge of four lakes, hybrid Bermuda grasses, championship-level greens and approximately 90 bunkers.

The Cabo del Sol, ranked 70th among the top 100 golf courses in the world is in the corridor. The course has about 1.5 miles of ocean frontage. Nicklaus says that Cabo del Sol "has three of the best ocean finishing holes in the world." Of 3,500 courses rated by Golf Digest, Cabo del Sol is one of the top ten public courses in the world.

Ground has been broken on a new 18-hole facility designed by Tom Weiskopf in Cabo del Sol, an area which is currently home to the just-expanded Hacienda del Mar resort. Eventually, Cabo del Sol will feature three golf courses, as well as two more luxury hotels, spread across 140 acres of desert terrain.This course will be completed Fall 2001.

The Cabo San Lucas Country Club, which opened it’s first course in 1995, plans to begin work on its second Dye Design course, later this year.