Golfing around The Bahamas
March 29, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized
Golf and The Bahamas have been sporadic bedmates since near the end of the 18th century. Sometimes the relationship has been dynamic; sometimes restrained.
If you count all the existing, planned and potential public, private and resort golf clubs the list stretches to 22, but there are about 12 that you can play today.
Grand Bahama has five public or resort courses and two under development. The Out Islands have a few including one mature 18-hole layout, another half completed and a third on the way.
New Providence and Paradise Island boast four courses, but one is private and another is available only to members and guests at Atlantis and One&Only Ocean Club.
Lucayan course
On Grand Bahama the Lucayan Golf Club, which triggered the island’s golfing era four decades ago, is matriarch of the island’s golfing family. It retains much of the Dick Wilson imprint, with tight dog-legs and elevated greens protected by craftily placed sand traps. Read the rest of this entry »