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Los Cabos Magazine 40 - Spring 2015

SPRING 2015 | LOS CABOS MAGAZINE 43 Coronado—was named the best new international course by Golf magazine and earned Nicklaus kudos as the top designer for 2014. The short par-four fifth hole, for example, requires an eight-minute switchback drive up a mountain—don’t worry, you can calm your nerves with a margarita at the comfort station en route—a cliff-side tee shot, and a blind second shot downhill toward a green protected back and left by water. The 635-yard par-five 12th describes a reverse S-curve, with abundant bunkering protecting the arching fairway and the ocean-side green. But the single trickiest shot may be on the 148-yard par-three 13th. The short iron tee shot seems easy until you realize the ocean is right off the green, and any shot left is going to roll across the green and off a cliff. The good news is that if you can hold the green, you’re probably looking at a six-to-eight footer for birdie. So impressive is Quivira that it’s worth staying at one of Pueblo Bonito’s four Cabo San Lucas resorts or investing in property at neighboring Quivira, Copala, Novaispania, or Montecristo Estates luxury developments just for the chance to tee it up on this instant classic. After years of chasing Nicklaus’s record of 18 major championship victories, Woods is now chasing his hero’s design legacy. His first completed course, El Cardonal at Diamante (www.diaman tecabosanlucas.com), now serves as an inland complement to Davis Love III’s oceanfront Dunes Course. Intended to evoke the Southern California courses he played during his youth, the 7,334- yard El Cardonal loop requires strategic choices and accurate angles of approach. Woods’s tactical philosophy is on full display at the par-four 17th, which requires navigating an angled fairway that leads seemingly inexorably toward hungry greenside bunkers. Despite the publicity generated by Woods’s El Cardonal, Love III’s remarkable Dunes Course remains the


Los Cabos Magazine 40 - Spring 2015
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