Four great golf courses
ActivitiesGolf_WTDFJan10
A premier season ahead
Four great golf courses
Golfers are looking forward to great golf this winter and spring in Grand Bahama, before the hot summer weather rolls in. Play always picks up between Thanksgiving and Easter when visitors arrive and winter residents return to their island homes.
There are four very different courses to choose from in Grand Bahama. They are the Lucayan, located on Balao and Midshipman Rds, and the Reef on Sea Horse Rd–both operated by the Our Lucaya Beach and Golf Resort. The others are the Ruby, owned by Harcourt Development of Dublin, Ireland, on West Sunrise Hwy, and Fortune Hills, a privately owned golf and country club on East Sunrise Hwy.
Warm temperatures, cooling breezes and excellent course conditions promise a premier golfing year. Add to that the special values built into these courses by three of the best-known golf course architects in the game.
The 6,800-yard Lucayan was the first golf course built on Grand Bahama, in 1962, and still retains many of the values imprinted on it by legendary architects Dick Wilson and Joe Lee–including tight doglegs and elevated greens protected by craftily placed sand traps.
The 6,900-yard Reef, built in 2000 by the equally famous Robert Trent Jones Jr, is a contemporary links-style course, requiring a different approach than the Lucayan. The Reef has wide fairways, but the bunkers protecting the greens await errant balls. The large greens are usually lightning-fast. An unpredictable ocean breeze can toughen up both courses.
Wilson and Lee worked together again on both the 7,000-yd plus Ruby and the Fortune Hills Golf and Country Club–a nine-hole gem that you can play twice from different tees to get in a full game.
Wherever you decide to play, you’re bound to enjoy great golf on Grand Bahama.
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