The 8 Best Golf Courses We Played This Year
As the summer golf season brings the game back to those parts of the world that fight off winter every year, it’s time for the complete spectrum of golf travelers to venture back out into full-time pursuit of their favorite pastime. With the game still enjoying the tail end of its post-COVID boom, properties around the world keep up to date with new amenities and updated course designs.
We journeyed to many of those courses over the last year, and this overview will provide you with some of the most significant and important new, or updated, destinations around the globe for fresh golf experiences.
Four Seasons Resort at Costa Palmas
East Cape, Los Cabos, Mexico
Tucked away on the East Cape of Los Cabos — the much more quiet, peaceful and less populated side of the popular resort region, about an hour’s drive from the constant party that is Cabo San Lucas — the Costa Palmas Golf Club is a serene desert retreat designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Created to leave the natural landscape intact and to avoid intruding on local farms and desert oases, the course offers an updated layout for 2024.
After its original opening in 2019, storm damage and flooding forced repairs and, eventually, a re-envisioning of the course’s layout. After restoring and rerouting the front nine, Costa Palmas is at full speed for this golf season.
