Warm Weather Getaways: Los Cabos
March 7th, 2007 | Written by Editor | Category: Golf Vacations |
by Jim Moriarty
Cabo San Lucas is the wide-open tourist town where you can actually pay to have a wandering caballero put a shiny steel hard hat on your head, pound it with sticks like the drummer in MegaDeath, pour a generous shot of tequila down your throat and, grabbing your head in both hands, shake it like a vine-ripened casaba melon.
Holy Pat Buchanan, here’s another high-wage, high-tech job exported to Mexico!
For decades, the twin villages of Cabo San Lucas and the quieter San José del Cabo, at the very southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, have served as a winter refuge for a population of living organisms as diverse as the migrating whales and lecherous Hollywood executives, both of whom, according to local legend, travel great distances to spawn.
The intimate beach hotels of post-NAFTA Cabo, however, have grown into golf-course developments and full-blown resorts. The little stretch of highway between the two towns contains, unquestionably, the best cluster of golf courses in all of Mexico.
Palmilla Golf Club, set in the desert hills and cactus canyons above the coastline, is an entertaining and eminently playable Jack Nicklaus lay-out owned by the Palmilla Hotel, one of the magnificent traditional inns on the peninsula.
Palmilla’s sibling is Cabo del Sol, a resort and real-estate venture just down the road. With several holes right along the rocky coastline, Cabo del Sol ranks as one of the most striking courses built in the last two decades.
Those two would, in and of themselves, provide any golfer with all the diversion required, but there is another high-quality alternative, Cabo Real, done largely by Robert Trent Jones Jr, not to mention Cabo San Lucas, just down the road.
Los Cabos has been referred to as Scottsdale by the Sea, a phrase that sufficiently covers the “look” of the place. You’ll need that hard hat, though, to get the “feel.”
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