Costa Rica Golf Courses
Cariari Country Club takes its moniker from the indigenous name for the land on which it sits in the modern-day Puerto Limon area, found by Spaniards more than 500 years ago. Christopher Columbus himself stayed in the region for three weeks, though the country club didn't open until 1973, meaning you could likely have a more satisfying experience at Cariari than even he did.
The golf course at Costa Rica Country Club has nurtured some of the country's top golfers, who've played their rounds while taking in the panorama of the mountains. The Jaime Solera Bennett Golf Course was founded in 1940 and conceived with the characteristics of Scottish links golf courses designed by Charles Lawrence Donovan, one of the forefathers of golf course architecture. It demands persistence and precision of its players.
Catch an ocean breeze at Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo with its Pacific Ocean vistas on 15 holes. The Arnold Palmer signature golf course offers wide fairways that undulate to big greens with plenty of contours and allows a decent challenge for golfing skills.
Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort and Residential Community offers a 7,300-yard course designed by Mike Young. He emphasized details and conformed holes to the landscape's slopes and contours. Risk vs. reward is the game, no two rounds are alike, and watch out for those trees.
La Iguana Golf Course sits alongside a rainforest and offers you a view of the ocean while play 18 holes of testing par-72 golf on a Ted Robinson layout that also serves as a habitat for monkeys and macaws.
Los Delfines Golf and Country Club sits on a bay along the Pacific on Nicoya Peninsula. This nine-hole course plays 6,144 yards over 18 and has recently been renovated
Robertson Ward & Associates designed the nine-hole golf course at the Los Reyes Country Club, and none other than Fred Staples built it over 2,917 yards - or 2,721 yards "for women." Over 18 holes, the gender-friendly golf course has a par of 70 for men and 74 for women and plays on well-maintained and attractive fairways that lead to equally well-tended greens. The club also offers a driving range and putting green.
The Punta Islita Executive Course offers nine holes of par-27 golf over 1,148 yards of Paspalum greens and tees and Bermuda and Sweet grass fairways.
Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed the course at Reserva Conchal Golf Club to impress. Both nines course over rolling terrain with excellent views. The par-71 golf course tests and inspires with its eco-golf aesthetic: Ravines and lakes are pretty - and pretty tough, making accurate shots toward well-manicured Bermuda greens essential.
The well-groomed Executive Golf Course at Tango Mar Beach, Spa & Golf Resort lies on hills that roll gently across cliffs and over the ocean for nine holes of par-3 and par-4 golf amidst the tropical palms and birds.
Golf course architect Tracy May designed Valle del Sol Golf Course to play through scenic nature in wonderful weather for 18 holes of championship golf.
Cariari Country Club
Costa Rica Country Club
Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica
Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort
La Iguana Golf Course
Los Delfines Golf & Country Club
Los Reyes Country Club
Punta Islita Golf Course
Reserva Conchal Golf Club
Tango Mar Beach, Spa & Golf Resort
Valle del Sol Golf Course
