While I’m in Cuba this week, I thought I’d re-up this story I wrote a couple of years back on the emergence of golf in Barbados. It sits well along side my review of the Green Monkey (http://www.pgatour.com/story/7267154) that I wrote for the PGATour.com in 2004….This is all interesting, considering there will be a PGA [...]
G4G posts, and the ongoing “blog war,” will have to be on hold for some of this week while I’m in Cuba on a family holiday.
While I’m there, I’m going to play one of only two golf courses in Cuba — this one designed by Les Furber in Varadero (http://www.varaderogolfclub.com/en/home.htm)
While I’m not entirely partial to [...]
Course: The Green Monkey
Location: Sandy Lane, Barbados
Architect: Tom Fazio
Opened: 2004
The Green Monkey is one of the highest profile, no-profile courses you will ever find. The course is part of a reported $300-million facelift owners JP McManus and Dermot Desmond gave to Barbados’ the fabled resort.
The resort is the discreet destination of choice for many of [...]
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