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Review: Playa Paraíso Golf Club

August 11, 2016

Course Name: Playa Paraíso Golf Club Designer: P.B. Dye (2005) Location: Riviera Maya, Mexico History: Designed in 2005 by P.B. Dye, this resort course has since hosted the Canadian Tour, a PGA Tour Monday Qualifier, and famously Big Break Mexico. Ranked #25 in all of the Caribbean and Mexico in Golfweek’s 2016 edition, this course is one of the … More Review: Playa Paraíso Golf Club

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Review now up for Mid Pines Golf Club! Mid Pines is a great public course in the Pinehurst area designed by Donald Ross in 1921 and renovated by Kyle Franz in 2013. A perennial top 100 public course in the US, this layout features excellent greens and a number of world-class holes (especially its par fours).

The 337 yard 10th hole at We-Ko-Pa Saguaro is a really fun risk/rewark hole that features two templates: a Reverse Cape on the teeshot and Lion’s Mouth by the green. This is certainly one of the easier holes out there and one of several holes on the course that provides the golfer numerous options.

Had the fortune of playing We-Ko-Pa’s Saguaro Course last Spring, the first round for me in Arizona. Known as one of the top courses in the blossoming Scottsdale golf scene, this Coore/Crenshaw design is thoroughly enjoyable with minimal houses, an easily walkable, intimate routing, and plenty of strategy and variety. The conditioning and scenery were also fantastic.

The 126 yard 9th hole is Cabot Cliffs’ shortest hole. A fine hole in its own right, this short one-shotter features a front-to-back sloped green with a giant bunker short and cliffs long. This hole is perhaps the course’s only routing blemish as the 8th green is near the 9th and you have to walk the length of the hole backwards to reach the teebox.

The oldest public course in New Jersey, Weequahic Golf Course was originally 9 holes built by Baltusrol Pro George Low in 1913. In 1969, Hal Purdy lengthened the course to a full 18 holes. At just over 5700 yards, this par 70 plays more difficult than you’d expect with small greens, tight fairways, and a hilly terrain. The course is located in South Newark and is operated by Essex County along with classics Francis Byrne and Hendricks Field. This has to be one of the better and more robust muni systems in America. Although my least favorite of the three, Weequahic offers strong value and a more than adequate layout for public golfers in the New York metro area.

The 470 yard par 4 17th is one of my favorite holes at Cascata as a beautiful sweeping, downhill dogleg left. Longer hitters can cut the corner over the hills and leave a shorter approach into a back-to-front sloped green. Par is a great score here.

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