ClairefromClare
Give 'em Helen!
Hubby and I celebrated our anniversary by playing this course. It's a Jack Nicklaus course, all of 16 months old, and is supposed to be the hot course in Cancun.
Sixteen months old--that alone should tell you something. It means it got underway during the last boom and came online just as the world was ending. Can you say, "deferred maintenance"? April is the end of the high season there, and the course was in amazingly awful shape. Not only was there pots of ground under repair, but it wasn't marked. Nor were the out of bounds, and the course is narrow, with lots of mangrove swamp lining the fairways.
They were aerating the front greens, which we didn't learn until the starter told us. Actually, they weren't all that bad--they reminded me of the fescue greens at Chambers Bay. On the back nine, every single hole had a forced carry over mangrove swamp. (Okay, the red tees didn't.) What starts out as challenging gets boring pretty quickly--I was surprised the course design came from the Nicklaus shop.
The scorecard had ratings for gold tees, but there weren't any on the course. Someone told us they'd removed them.
If you do want to play this course (or any in Cancun/Maya Riviera), I recommend booking through this site: Tee Times Mexico. Prices are better than reserving directly at the course. We paid $179 each, instead of the official $200. It came with transportation, practice balls, and all food and beverages. The restaurant was great, but for decent golf in Cancun, play the Hilton.
Sixteen months old--that alone should tell you something. It means it got underway during the last boom and came online just as the world was ending. Can you say, "deferred maintenance"? April is the end of the high season there, and the course was in amazingly awful shape. Not only was there pots of ground under repair, but it wasn't marked. Nor were the out of bounds, and the course is narrow, with lots of mangrove swamp lining the fairways.
They were aerating the front greens, which we didn't learn until the starter told us. Actually, they weren't all that bad--they reminded me of the fescue greens at Chambers Bay. On the back nine, every single hole had a forced carry over mangrove swamp. (Okay, the red tees didn't.) What starts out as challenging gets boring pretty quickly--I was surprised the course design came from the Nicklaus shop.
The scorecard had ratings for gold tees, but there weren't any on the course. Someone told us they'd removed them.
If you do want to play this course (or any in Cancun/Maya Riviera), I recommend booking through this site: Tee Times Mexico. Prices are better than reserving directly at the course. We paid $179 each, instead of the official $200. It came with transportation, practice balls, and all food and beverages. The restaurant was great, but for decent golf in Cancun, play the Hilton.
