46 Los Cabos Magazine | Summer 2016 Francisco Estrada (3) In Los Cabos, it’s hard to know what’s more impressive—the courses or the views. From top: Puerto Los Cabos, Cabo Real, and Club Campestre. challenger to Nicklaus’s supremacy in the Tourist Corridor. His superb Querencia recently made its debut on Golf Digest’s World 100 list, and he also designed the newly opened Chileno Bay Golf Course. San José del Cabo Sánchez Navarro and Nicklaus are the marquee names on the San José del Cabo golf scene. The former, an heir to the Corona fortune and a major Los Cabos developer, heads Grupo Questro and was the visionary force behind the luxury Puerto Los Cabos community located just outside the city. Grupo Questro (www.questrogolf.com) administers the Nicklaus layout at Club Campestre, as well as the unique loop at Puerto Los Cabos: the world’s only composite design from Nicklaus and Australian champion Greg Norman. Questro also manages Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s masterful Cabo Real course in the Tourist Corridor, which helped put Cabo on the golfing map when television cameras caught whales breaching near greens during the 1996 PGA Senior Grand Slam. Private Several of the top courses in Los Cabos are private or have restricted access. The world-class courses at Querencia and El Dorado are both private, as are the two courses at Diamante. Since fractional opportunities are available at Diamante, however, it may be possible to play the Dunes by attending a time-share presentation. The acclaimed new Nicklaus course at Quivira is restricted to guests at the four local Pueblo Bonito resorts, or owners at neighboring Quivira, Copala, Novaispania, and Montecristo Estates luxury developments. Public Despite the many private courses, visiting golfers will have no trouble getting a tee time at an amazing course. Cabo del Sol’s Ocean and Desert courses, and Grupo Questro’s trio of challenging layouts–Cabo Real, Club Campestre and Puerto Los Cabos–are all open to the public. So too are Palmilla, Punta Sur, and the Cabo San Lucas Country Club. Upcoming Projects More golf projects are always in the pipeline, with new luxury resorts engaged in a continual quest to outdo the existing competition. Puerto Los Cabos has plans to expand its composite nine-hole designs from Nicklaus and Greg Norman into two separate courses. Norman is also involved in the design of a course for the highly anticipated Pacific coast development Rancho San Lucas. Tiger Woods, too, is returning to build on his local legacy. He’s now working on another course for Diamante, to be called the Oasis. Montage Los Cabos, meanwhile, originally wanted a course from smooth swinging Masters champion Fred Couples to accompany its new hotel overlooking Santa María Bay. Instead, it will unveil a barefoot pitchand putt course in 2017. Y
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