Four Seasons Resort Golf Course - Nevis

The Four Seasons Resort Course on Nevis begins at the base of Nevis Peak, the dormant volcano that dominates the small tear-drop shaped island in the West Indies that Columbus discovered in 1493. Columbus supposedly thought that the ring of clouds encircling the peak was snow, and christened the island Nuestra Senora de Los Nieves, or Our Lady of the Snows. Golf came to Nevis about 500 years later, in 1991, when the Four Seasons opened the course designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. The course is laid out on land that had once been Pinney's Plantation, Azariah Pinney having come to Nevis from England in 1685 to make his fortune in the sugar trade. The first few holes run through coconut and fan palms and the ruins of an old sugar mill. Then the course begins its climb along the 3,232-foot high Nevis Peak, with fairways carved through flamboyants, clammy cherry, sour-sop, and African sandbox trees. From the high holes, there are stirring views of the lush greenery of Nevis to the south and across Banana Bay to the bare mountains of St. Kitts to the north. The par-five 15th hole calls for a carry of 240 yards from the back tees over a river gorge that is home to green vervet monkeys, mongoose, and wild donkeys, before the course descends back to Pinney's Beach.

Palmas Del Mar Resort and Country Club - Puerto Rico

Palmas del Mar Resort and Country Club is a planned community in Humacao, Puerto Rico, developed by Charles Fraser, the man behind Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island and Florida's Amelia Island Plantation. The 2,100-acre resort with three and a half miles of beach has two courses, the Palms Course, a 1974 Gary Player design, and the Rees Jones-designed Flamboyan Course that debuted in 1999. The Flamboyan Course, which features Jones's swirling Contours, wraps around a 23-acre lake, crosses the Candelero River, and dashes along the coast before climbing into the hills overlooking the ocean. The par-three 12th hole plays across a canal to a green backed by the ocean.