Barbados golf courses are the perfect vacation experience it is your chance to play in paradise… Whether you are a season pro or a rank amateur you’re bound to enjoy every moment. The island’s courses are set amidst the most beautiful surroundings… rolling hillsides, old quarries, wooded gullies and spectacular coastal views.
The Barbados golf courses have been transformed over the last 15 years. And today the island has been position as a world-class golfing paradise. You’ll find a number of PGA standard golf facilities design by world renowned designers like Tom Fazio, Robert Trent-Jones Jr. and Ron Kirby… But it is not just the world class courses that make a world class golf destination.
A number of international tournaments like the Shell World of Golf Challenge, European Seniors Tour and the PGA endorse World Golf Championships World Cup held in December 2006 have all contributed to the island golf development.
So whether you tee off at the world class PGA standard golf courses at Sandy Lane, the magnificent Royal Westmoreland or the well maintained coursed at the Barbados Golf Club you’ll agree that Barbados is a genuine golf destination.
Barbados Golf Courses
The Barbados Golf Club located at Durants on the island’s rapidly developing south coast has been tag as great greens, great atmosphere…
At Durants you’ll find Barbados first public 18 hole championship golf course. This modern facility has been develop to enhance golf at the local level.
This course reopened in 2000 after being redesigned by architect Ron Kirby. It features an 18-hole link-style 6,705 yard par 72 golf course.
For golf lovers, sun lovers and… lovers of tropical destinations, Sandy Lane Golf Resort offers it all, ideal location, history and prestige on three fabulous courses.
This world-class resort has long renowned for its popular Old Nine course Sandy Lane Barbados, has added two championship 18-hole golf courses.
Both feature magnificent clubhouses with breathtaking views overlooking the scenic and beautiful west coast.
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At the heart of Apes Hill Club is its par-72 championship course which opened in December 2009. The course which offers challenging and spectacular golf was recently rated one of the best in the world.
The most advanced golfers will enjoy 7,150 yards from the Professional Tees, while the Front Tees, set at just over 5,000 yards, take full advantage of the fairways’ contours.
Each hole is unique, from the 12th hole with views of the east coast to the par-three 16th, whose setting within a coral-stone quarry has earned it the status of a signature hole.
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Overlooking Barbados Platinum Coast is Royal Westmoreland a members’ only residential country club. By all definitions Royal Westmoreland is a golfer’s paradise.
This magnificent 6,870 yard par 72 championship golf course design by Robert Trent-Jones Jr. has recently been rated number 31 out of the top 100 golf courses outside the US by Golf Digest.
At the center of this fabulous course sits an elegant, colonial style clubhouse with breathtaking views of the fairways and the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea in the distance.
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Rockley Golf Course may not be one of the big courses on the island however it not only offers great value but also a tough challenge of your golfing skills.
However with long Par 3’s and strategically placed trees on Fairways and around Greens the course makes you think through every shot.