La Mantarraya Golf Club Club at Las Hadas Golf Resort is an 18-hole
course with a great layout and a world of potential. Considered by many to
be one of the best in Latin America, this magnificent course has been rated
one of the world's top 100 by Golf Digest, which remarked, "The Las Hadas
Golf Course is the only course in the world worth flying 3,000 miles to play."
Designed by Roy and Pete Dye, the course is located next to the Las Hadas
Resort, and offers plenty of water and palm trees, wide fairways, light shallow
rough, 11 water holes, and a spectacular #18 hole, which is an Island green
built on the ocean. The course also has a green with a trap in the middle
(#2), and another with the green in the middle of a trap (#10). In addition
to championship golf, visitors will also find outstanding clubhouse facilities
and an excellent tennis center.
Isla Navidad offers one of the most beautiful and spectacular courses
in all of Latin America, with 27 world-class holes designed by renowned architect
Robert von Hagge. With an unusually long ocean frontage, its design is a blend
of golfing challenge and beauty, as wind, light, and surface variance challenge
different skill levels on greens that extend into the lagoon or the mountains,
having as their backdrop magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean. The tee boxes
are better than 90% of the greens in the U.S., and the fairways are like an
emerald carpet. The three 9's at Isla Navidad consists of the Ocean 9, the
Mountain 9, and the Lagoon 9.
Club Santiago is a small, semi-private course located at Club Santiago.
Designed by Larry Hughes, this 9-hole course takes you throughout a valley,
behind the foothills of Manzanillo, and around a large salt-water lagoon.
El Tamarindo Country Club is a spectacular 18-hole championship course
which borders the ocean, and has been carefully landscaped to blend in with
the natural beauty of the tropical rainforest and surrounding areas. The site
contains a tremendous nature preserve, with spectacular plant diversity and
exciting view corridors that rival the greatest golf courses of the world.
The jungle holes wander through valleys of giant native trees, which, according
to nature's calendar, explode into an incredible color display of tropical
blooms. Where the course exits the jungle onto three breathtaking ocean front
holes, more shots are taken with cameras than golf clubs. The ocean is seen
from nine holes with spectacular beaches and crashing surf. Designed by David
N. Fleming, El Tamarindo is about an hour's drive north of Manzanillo.
