Golf in Costa Rica

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Any experience? Thinking about a vacation next year.




Valle del Sol Golf Club




Four Seasons Golf Club


La Iguana

[Ian Mackenzie]

1. A beach/sun vacation with a couple rounds of golf?
2. Or, a golf vacation with a focus on course quality?


If #1, then the Four Seasons is tough to beat once you swallow the high price tag.
Golf course there is nice, but typical jungle course. My guess is that it is a "Doak 5" tops.


Dont know the other one but as it is in San Jose, the criteria for your trip may dictate that.


We went in month of March to Four Seasons and just played one round with rental set and it was fine....but H-O-T!!!!


If you seek quality golf, there are many other better Pacific destinations.

[Jeff Schley]

I played Valle Del Sol maybe 10 years ago in San Jose, it was just average at best.  In Costa Rica you want to go to Jaco and the pacific side anyway, so I'd pick something there.

[Mike_Young]

I have one I did at Hacienda Pinilla.  www.haciendapinilla.com. The resort is 4000 acres with 4 miles of beach.  Plenty of nice homes and a JW Marriott.  The Westin is just up the beach a few miles and has a good RTJ course.  ...A new Discovery Land project is coming just up the beach also...the rainy season just finished and there will be ZERO rain until late May.  The aquifers have become brackish in a few areas in the Pacific Northwest sector so you never know what you will get.   Check out Lola's on the beach south of us a mile or so...

[Colin Sheehan]

Mike,
That Hacienda Pinilla routing looks like a cumulatively long walk.
Was it impossible to not make it the case?

[Mike_Young]

Yes.  It could have been much closer between tees and greens and approx 5-6 holes could have been on the water but there was a lot of give and take with the RE people.  Also, the heat down there with no rain during the golf season makes it where conditions would be tough for a walk.  I don't think the country is a golf specific destination.  JMO

[Tom_Doak]

If #1, then the Four Seasons is tough to beat once you swallow the high price tag.
Golf course there is nice, but typical jungle course. My guess is that it is a "Doak 5" tops.

Indeed, it was a 5 in The Confidential Guide.  Its only saving grace is that the course is never that busy . . . I was there on Presidents' Day weekend when the resort was completely full, and they only did 23 rounds of golf on the day.


They asked me last year if I would be interested in working on a second 18 holes on a peninsula to the north, but the land is even steeper than the first course!

[Jon Heise]

Intriguing... I've got friends in CR and would love to check these out when I visit.

[Jake McCarty]

Any experience? Thinking about a vacation next year.


Catch a ride to Mukul. The FS will arrange it.








Valle del Sol Golf Club




Four Seasons Golf Club


La Iguana

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