Luxury Golf Course Experience

Tripoto
27th Jul 2015
Photo of Luxury Golf Course Experience by Johannes Hofmann

At my last trip for 360Luxury to Punta Cana I had the privilege to hang out with some Golf Pros in Punta Cana and walk the hall of Golf fame in Los Corales. Here some of my impressions.

With a warm and heavy trade wind whipping off the sea, I step onto the fourth tee at the Los Corales Golf Club, gaze down the fairway to the infinity green and feel a wave of excitement wash over me.

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To the left of the green are water-worn rocks on a lonely point. To the right endless views over little lakes, give or take, bob on the turquoise water crashing against the reefs. What a dramatic scene for one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world. Los Corales is located in Punta Cana where I have visited the most outstanding vacation rental villas in the entire Caribbean. Honestly I missed to step in the House from Julio Iglesias but I have been told that every bedroom from his mansion has his own swimming pool, overlooking the endless white private beach.  Welcome to “my” world.

The Golf Course himself is A MUST PLAY if you are in the Caribbean!  It's the most impressive golf course I’ve ever seen. A beautiful layout and mint condition. Low traffic and fantastic weather.  Awesome finishing holes from 16 to 18, made more challenging by shifting wind conditions.

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Playing more than 7,500 yards from the championship tees, one aspect to the course that becomes all too apparent from the beginning hole is there is a lot of room out here. The course was grassed wall-to-wall with paspalum turf, and there is plenty of it.

The front nine's eighth hole plays entirely along the sea, while the 18th is easily the most spectacular hole of the bunch. It's a long, par-4, dogleg right around the crashing waves. Golfers who are bold can try and cut off as much length as they can by hitting over the cliffs, leaving themselves with a shot to the green right beside the edge.

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Golf and the sea have always been kindred spirits. After all, the game was conceived along the wind and wave-smashed shores of the Caribbean coast. The two just go hand in hand.

At the end……. I love the Golf Club; a typical British understatement, a simple colonial design, with a terrace overlooking one of the most beautiful location for the world, where billionaires are easy hanging around to drink a Presidente. The local beer.

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Here are some general Information about the golf course. 

Designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 2010, Corales is an exclusive and dramatic 18-hole course with six Caribbean Oceanside holes. Designed along the natural cliffs, bays, ocean coves and the inland lakes and coralina quarries, Corales Golf Course rates among the World’s finest Golf Experiences.  The exhilarating challenge culminates playing the Devil’s Elbow, Corales’s last three holes. The Devil’s Elbow features the striking eighteenth hole with a dramatic forced carry over the cliff lined Bay of Corales, an inspired capstone to a memorable and breathtaking golf experience.

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