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Travel International Mexico
Travel International Mexico
MexicoFrom Cabo to Cancun, golf south of the border is hard to beat |
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Mexico’s most lavish stay and play option is home to the Ocean and Desert Courses, two of Mexico’s highest-rated resort tracks. A third course, designed by Tom Doak and Mark Parsinen, is in the works. Bed down at the Fiesta Americana or the Sheraton Hacienda del Mar tucked along the Sea of Cortez.
Cabo Real’s El Dorado Course is on the level with the Ocean Course at Cabo del Sol in terms of scenery, design and conditioning. The original Cabo Real Golf Course, a Robert Trent Jones II design, plays a close second fiddle with its three oceanfront holes. Play them both, then relax at one of Cabo Real’s seven resort hotels.
Palmilla features twenty-seven holes of Jack Nicklaus-designed golf. The original 18-hole circuit helped put Cabo and Mexico on the international golf map. Nicklaus returned in 1999 to add the Ocean nine, with its 600-feet of elevation change. The boutique-style resort dates back to 1956 and was a favorite haunt of Hemmingway’s.
Vista Vallarta is PV’s premier multi-course golf resort, with 18-hole gems from Tom Weiskopf and Jack Nicklaus. The two former Ohio State Buckeye greats produced a couple of stunners just 15 minutes from the hotel zone and a stone’s throw from “Gringo Gulch” – site of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s torrid affair while filming 
The Four Seasons Punta Mita, located 45 minutes north of downtown Puerto Vallarta, is a quaint collection of 140 guest casitas that spill down the coast to the Pacific. Nearby is Jack Nicklaus’ Punta Mita Golf Club, a stunning track laid out on a narrow nape of land next to Banderas Bay.
Moon Palace Resort is Cancun’s premier stay-and-play property. The resort features a Jack Nicklaus-designed course (his first along the east coast of Mexico) that has been described as a jungle where a golf course broke out.
Estrella del Mar is a master-planned resort set on 3.5 miles of pristine Pacific Ocean beaches. The centerpiece of the property is a lush Robert Trent Jones II course routed through a series of glistening lakes.
