Barbados is becoming one of the Caribbean’s favourite golfing holiday locations with a superb climate with temperatures ranging from 75-90 degrees, with lots of sunshine and cooling Atlantic breezes, it is ideal weather for tackling any of the islands first class golf courses. Great golfing facilities combined with beautiful beaches and a vibrant nightlife make it a hard act to follow, and with new golfing developments planned, Barbados is sure to remain a first rate destination for both golfers and non golfers for years to come.
Antigua rightly boasts of it’s 365 super beaches, it’s many magnificent hotels, places of historic interest such as Nelson’s Dockyard, Clarence House, English Harbour, and Shirley Heights, and it’s unsurpassed climate with cooling Trade breezes. Whilst there are only 2 courses on the island, they are both memorable due to their location, inland at Cedar Valley Golf Club, an 18 hole championship course and one of the most challenging in the Caribbean, and the other at the Jolly Harbour Golf Club, Antigua’s newest 18 hole course located on the south west coast of the island.
St Kitts – with it’s dramatic volcanic peaks running through the centre of the island surrounded by a lush green rain forest with low lying plains rolling down to the Caribbean beaches offers many plantation houses which have now been converted into romantic unique hotels such as Ottley’s and Rawlins Planation Inns. Golf is available at two course, the first is the 18 hole Royal St Kitts Golf Course at Frigate Bay, which hosts major international tournaments, and has the deserved reputation of being one of the most picturesque and challenging courses in the Caribbean. A 9 hole course is located at Golden Rock on the outskirts of Basseterre. A Nick Faldo Golf Academy is located at Frigate Bay.
St Lucia – an island of incredible scenic grandeur with the world famous Pitons, St Lucia offers two superb golf courses. Sandals Regency St Lucia Golf Resort & Spa offers a magnificent course with rolling hills and majestic fairways and provides a challenge with it’s 9 greens and narrow fairways.. St Lucia Golf & Country Club is set in the scenic rolling hills of Cap Estates offering panoramic views of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and is the only 18 hole golf course on the island
Canouan in the Grenadines – situated in the heart of the Grenadines with long white sand beaches surrounded by the clearest sea, offers a totally unique course, the Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort, set on dramatically sloping hills and along the ocean shore covering over 150 acres. This is an exhilarating, spectacular, and challenging Jim Fazio designed 18 hole championship golf course. This is a new level of golfing experience like no other in the Caribbean and is the latest in Donald Trump’s assemblage of championship golf clubs.
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