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Love Los Cabos
By Greg & Beverly Wise
And back down the mountain we come on number 16.
Whether adventuring to Cabo San Lucas
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for your first visit, or maybe making your 20th visit to the area, a trip to Los Cabos is a vacation you will never forget. Pristine blue waters of the Sea of Cortez create the perfect backdrop for any kind of getaway. We found that Los Cabos holds the key to every door in your imagination. Our plans to Cabo wrapped around playing quality golf and adventure seeking. Los Cabos will welcome you whether by air, land or sea for a relaxing and enjoyable stay in paradise. More than 500 weekly flights from 40 destinations, connecting different places in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Situated where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortes at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, Los Cabos boasts a mountain-desert-ocean environment nowhere else in the western hemisphere. If you have ever imagined a golf haven with such diversity including 18 golf courses woven into dazzling seaside and desert landscape, Los Cabos is the destination for you. Only in Los Cabos do the emerald green fairways seem to slide down from
cactus-studded foothills to meet the sea. Only in Los Cabos can golfers tee it up on world-class layouts built by such design legends such as Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Greg Norman, Davis Love III, and Robert Trent Jones, Jr within just a few minute drive. Our choice for this trip was Quivira Golf Club, the sixth Jack Nicklaus Signature Design golf course in Los Cabos. In a breathtaking setting at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, Quivira is a true triumph of engineering and visualization. Marked by magnificent granite cliffs, huge windswept dunes and rolling desert foothills, this tremendous layout plays through numerous arroyos, acres of cactus, and lots of rock. A total sampling of everything Cabo has to offer. And, yes… I found most of them. Playing the first hole is an incredible feeling as you are hearing the waves of the Pacific Ocean crashing directly behind you. You’ll play the first 4 holes in the low lands of the resort. Get used to the environment and flat lies… because that is about to change. Then after scaling the face of a mountain in route to the fifth tee, players encounter the first of four complimentary comfort stations serving some Mexican specialties and refreshments. Enjoy the view…and take a deep Golf Central • Volume 21, Issue 4