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The Evolution of Cabo San Lucas Country Club
Online golf review - 12 December 2008 - Matthew B. Dexter - www.iGolf.com
Over the course of the past decade, Los Cabos has become an enormous golfing oasis of epic proportions. Most people tend to focus on the newer courses. These beautifully designed courses are usually located along the treasured twenty mile tourist corridor connecting Cabo San Lucas with San Jose del Cabo, strewn amid some of the most picturesque desert landscapes in southern Baja.
Cabo del Sol, Palmilla, El Dorado, and Querencia, among others, are certainly exquisite and have given Los Cabos the crown for Mexican golf tourism. Yet only one course is worthy of being situated within such close distance of land’s end and the Pacific that you can actually witness smoke clouds drifting from the chimneys and smoke stacks of cruise ships in the bay of Cabo San Lucas.
From Cabo San Lucas Country Club you can actually see the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula seemingly sinking into the sea, giving a glimpse into the Pacific Ocean and the shimmering Sea of Cortez. This is the only course in Los Cabos where you can enjoy fairway views of land’s end. There is something magical about Cabo San Lucas Country Club. It can send shivers down the spines of those who have never envisioned the natural beauty of Cabo San Lucas. Rock formations dot the aquatic landscape like the final brushstrokes from the golfing gods after the earth was first created.
The course was originally designed by Pete Dye and opened for business in 1994. Originally is the key word, since Hurricane Juliet tore up this course with a wicked vengeance in 2001. The future of Cabo San Lucas Country Club was in serious jeopardy, until a five million dollar investment saved the course and restored it to the current state we enjoy it in today.
Holes ten through fifteen had to be rebuilt entirely from scratch. Yet this does not take away from the character of the course because designers respected the general layout and flow of the course so that the new holes would not appear cut up and out of place. It was not an easy undertaking, but the results are admirable. This par 72 course is impressive from start to finish. At 7220 yards, Cabo San Lucas Country Club is most infamous for its proximity to land’s end.
The fifth hole is perhaps the most famous. It certainly has the highest handicap and features a very unusual design. The fifth plays 446 yards from the championship tees, and the lengthy fairway makes a dramatic turn to the right and tilts a little bit uphill. The green itself sits like a picturesque well protected fortress, fortified by a beautiful lake in the back and protruding sand traps banking the other three sides. The slopes might look gentle, but like a mirage in the desert this mountain course actually offers 300 feet of elevation changes that will make you happy to invest in those extra golf balls.
Sprawling an impressive 750 arid acres, Cabo San Lucas Country Club is an elegant escape from the explosive party atmosphere of the town just minutes down the road. The landscape is exquisite, and you will feel immersed within a wonderful private community that is open to the public. The clubhouse has a nice pro shop, with tennis courts and a delicious restaurant.
Sure some of the aforementioned courses along the corridor might offer a more dramatic and challenging round of golf. The grass is usually greener on the other side of the road, especially driving past Cabo San Lucas Country Club. Yet you’ll also have to pay more green, for greens fees and transportation, since Cabo San Lucas Country Club is the only course close enough to town to be an easy and affordable taxi drive.
The advantages of playing Cabo San Lucas Country Club are abundant and undeniable. While the other courses have created a golfing landscape that will definitely take your breath away, only the heavenly mountains above land’s end can turn Cabo golfing into an ethereal eighteen. It’s an aquatic collage of ocean vistas set amid an arid mountain course. Cabo San Lucas Country Club offers a majestic course for novice and expert golfers, as much as for those just interested in the exquisite scenery.
The panoramic view from the 18th hole will blow your mind; with spectacular views of the Sea of Cortez, Pacific Ocean, land’s end, and Cabo San Lucas. This is tropical country club golfing at its finest. The environment is an oasis. Only in Mexico can you find an exclusive and unpretentious golfing and living community open to the public. It’s an ethereal treasure in the desert. You’ll love it so much in the winter it might send shivers down your spine in the balmy eighty degree weather as you watch whales swimming in front of land’s end.
Source: iGolf.com - by Matthew B. Dexter - The online source for golf travel news and reviews - http://www.igolf.com/review/travel/The_Evolution_of_Cabo_San_Lucas_Country_Club/383/
Matthew Dexter is a versatile 29 year old American freelance journalist living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. His articles have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad. Matthew also writes memoirs, novels, poetry, and short stories of literary fiction. http://www.matthewbdexter.com/
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