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We invite you to play our courses for yourself for an unforgettable golfing experience: Dedicated - with an uncanny ability to track down wayward shots and to read the breaks on even the trickiest greens, experienced, entertaining, jamaica is also famous for its caddies: lively. Lush vegetation and scenic beauty of our tropical island also encourages creative golf course designs by imaginative golf course architects, the topography, in addition to excellent year-round weather. Jamaica is blessed with all the qualities of a world-class golf destination.

Shopping and entertainment facilities, beaches and other recreational, an international airport served by several major airlines, premium hotel accommodations, montego Bay is the island's golf capital boasting five championship golf courses.

SuperClubs Ironshore

As well as flowering hibiscus and bough, frilly Australian pines, fairways are separated by tall. With several water encounters and a number of interesting blind shots, 570-yard layout delivers what is expected - an entertaining golf experience, the 6. Locals say, the greens are in their best condition in 20 years. A beautifully decorated new clubhouse was built and a massive course renovation completed. SuperClubs has been polishing that gem, since January 2000. It's a demanding course with plenty of doglegs and bunkers to challenge your A-game, once referred to as Jamaica's gem in the rough. Par-72 course; country Club is a links-style, the former Ironshore Golf &.

Half Moon

While leaving an opening for the novice player to run the ball in, their shape and contour often force the better golfer to work the ball to get their approaches close to tucked pins, the greens also demand special attention: while they are very playable. Including runway tees and use of the land's movement or the 'figure eight' routing that cleverly changes angles just enough to cause bewilderment on the windy days, the course boasts some of the trademark Jones features. Including the Jamaican Open and the Dunhill Cup, it has been selected as host venue for several professional and amateur tournaments, 119 yards from the back tees, 7, measuring a massive. The course opened in 1961 and since has firmly established itself as one of prized courses that the Caribbean has to offer, . Designed by the renowned Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Cinnamon Hill

Long before golf, offer a crumbling reminder of a land that once breathed a life of its own, and ruins of historic homes, gravestones, including aqueducts, and remnants of the area's history, the course is built on what was once a 400-acre plantation. That a scene was shot here for the James Bond film Live and Let Die, the surrounding scenery at #15 "Mountain Falls" is so striking. Descriptive and sometimes downright intimidating names each hole has its own intriguing characteristics and is sure to leave behind a memorable experience, serene, boasting interesting. Where dense foliage traps the fairways of the incoming holes, windswept front nine into the lower elevations of the Blue Mountains on the back nine, the layout moves from an open, and short on acreage, on an island blessed with lushness and topographical character. At the Wyndham Rose Hall, one instinctively marvels at the parcel of land on which Robert von Hagge-designed Cinnamon Hill GC (formerly Three Palms).

White Witch

But the course intertwines with the mountains and provides golfers with some of the best views of the coastline, with its carries over jungle-like terrain, this elevated route can be intimidating. 718-yard course sticks to the high ground where there are cool breezes and ocean views on 16 holes, the 6. The layout is mountainous and rugged, instead of traditional tropical terrain. Opened in August 2000 as the centerpiece of the new Ritz Carlton Rose Hall Resort, rick Baril and Mike Smelek, designed by the team of Robert Von Hagge, the White Witch Course. Locals are quick to say that Annie Palmer still haunts the Rose Hall Great House and the estate- including the course built there on the grounds.

Tryall

Have preserved the atmosphere of charming gentility that has been "modernized out" of many other historic properties, many associated with the club for generations, tryall's homeowners. While the memorable par-four 7th hole provides a dramatic tee-shot through the stone pillars of the historic aqueduct that feeds the adjacent waterwheel, the signature par-three 4th hole incorporates the natural challenges of the Caribbean Sea and the Flint River. And back down to the sea along a route lined with flowering plants and magnificent trees, past coconut groves, 772 yards from the ocean-side up into forested hills, the course stretches 6. It is probably the most celebrated golf course in the Caribbean, with holes that kiss the shoreline and flirt with the edges of jungle ravines. Last won by Fred Couples in 1995, ralph Plummer-designed championship course has played host to such prestigious international events as the Johnnie Walker World Championship, tryall's 18-hole.

Negril Hills

Waiting to claim wayward balls, marshlands and sandtraps also lurk throughout the course. Boasting nine ponds that all come into play, this course is characterized by water hazards. Coconut and other tropical trees dance in the soft sea breezes wafting in from the coast, along the fairways. It also reveals fleeting views of Negril's distant golden sands and calm seas. With snaking fairways and mildly sloping greens, this topography makes for fast play. Rolling hills, cut into Negril's low, 333 yards, this 18-hole course spans 6, built in 1993 by Robert Simmons. This layout promises an enjoyable round that's a perfect break from Negril's sand and sea, undulating fairways and emerald ponds, famous for its elevated tees and greens. Golf enthusiasts will find this relaxed resort's hidden gem- the Negril Hills Golf Club, nestled in the hills minutes away from Negril's famous seven-mile white-sand beach.

Runaway Bay GC

The Jamaica Open and the World Cup of Golf Super-qualifier tournaments, the PGA-quality golf course has hosted many an international event including the MatchPlay games between the United Kingdom and the West Indies. Guarantee that golfers can expect an exhilarating experience whether they are beginners or accomplished players, long rolling fairways with large flat greens and breathtaking views of the Caribbean Sea, the combination of the wind gusting up to 35 miles per hour. 870 yards with a slope rating of 124, the course measures a long 6, from the Blue Tees. The par 72 course was designed by Major John Harris from Britain and opened in 1960.

Sandals Ocho Rios

The course makes for a challenging 128 slope, par 71 from the Blue Tees, although comparatively short- 6311 yards. The greens were rebuilt with Tifdwarf Bermuda grass and the fairways resurfaced with Bermuda grass. Sandals Resorts purchased the property and set about creating one of the most elite golf courses in Jamaica, in June 1992. Was expanded in the early 1960s to 18 holes, saunders. Designed by P.K, the original 9-hole layout which. A few miles east of Ocho Rios, country Club was established in 1951 as a 9 hole course located 700 feet above sea level in Upton, the Sandals Golf & formerly known as Upton Golf Club.

Manchester

It is open to the public and is one of Mandeville's main tourist attractions, although it is a private members club. Provided by the course's 2201 foot elevation, the capital of Manchester and has one of the most breath-taking scenic wonders, it is situated in the middle of the town of Mandeville. A golf course was built on the site, founded as a Country Club in 1865 and soon after the Scots invented the game of golf. It is easily the most unique in Jamaica with it's nine greens and 18 tee locations, boasting 140 years of history. The Manchester Country Club is Jamaica's and the Caribbean's oldest golf course, carved into the rolling hills near Mandeville more than a century ago.

Caymanas

844 yards, is sloped at 123 from the Blue Tees and measures 6, the Jamaica Classic and Shell's Wonderful World of Golf, including the Jamaican Open, which hosted several Caribbean Championships, the Club. Strategically placed bunkers and ponds also make for more challenging play. Creating daunting natural hazards, 844 yards, stately Cotton and Guango trees line the fairways and guard the greens throughout the course's 6. Several of the 18 tee boxes are elevated while the fairways undulate in accordance to the topography of the craggy limestone hills. The course's hilly environment is brilliantly incorporated in the layout, in the 1950s, howard Watson, designed by well-known Canadian architect. Stretching all the way to Kingston Harbour, catherine and overlooks the parish's verdant cane fields. Caymanas GC rests in the foothills of St, located 9 miles outside Kingston.

Constant Spring

Many of the socially elite and more than a few concerts during its long
history, it has hosted all of the island's top players. And the challenge of driving to a narrow plateau of fairway beyond a steep valley, short course with a breathtaking view at the 13th tee, it is a tight. Making it one of Jamaica's oldest golf courses, a mentor of Robert Trent Jones, constant Spring was built in 1920 by Scottish architect Stanley Thompson, located in the heart of one of Kingston's nicest residential areas.

Is at the forefront of the drive to develop the game of golf for a better Jamaica, comprised of individual golfing members and golf clubs islandwide, the Jamaica Golf Association.

David Leadbetter Golf Academy - Half Moon

And has developed an exclusive group of teaching professionals to give "tour-proven" advice to ambitious golfers at all stages of development, greg Norman and Nick Price, he is known for rebuilding Nick Faldo's fabled swing and has worked with Ernie Els. David Leadbetter has a unique ability to communicate and a profound dedication to the game, created by one of the masters in the art of teaching the golf swing. The Academy combines the finest golf instruction available on one of Jamaica's most challenging courses.

Wireless National Golf Academy cable &

You can hone you short game skills, or on the adjacent putting green, from the Academy's 23 bays you may practice your swing and drive. Bunkers and ponds, 6 manicured greens and well-placed holes, the driving range plays like a real golf course with undulating fairways, spanning an impressive 240 yards. The National Golf Academy is the island's first public driving range and putting green, located on lands with a view of New Kingston's towering buildings and the distant Blue Mountains. Is also fast becoming the capital city's recreational sporting center thanks in part to the addition of Cable and Wireless' National Golf Academy, new Kingston, kingston's bustling business and entertainment hub.

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