The White Witch - Jamaica
The White
Witch at the Rose Hall Plantation in Jamaica has
become one of the top resort courses in the
Caribbean since it opened in 2000. The course,
designed by Robert von Hagge and Rick Baril, is
spread out over 600 acres of lush, hilly
countryside, splashed with big, ragamuffin
bunkers, kettle ponds, and rambling
stone walls. There are views over
Montego Bay at every turn, with 16 of the 18
holes overlooking the sea. Developed and
operated by the Ritz-Carlton, the course is
named after Annie Palmer, the 19th-century
mistress of the 4,000-acre Rose Hall sugar
plantation. She was reputed to have murdered
three of her husbands and many lovers before she
met an untimely end herself at the hands of the
plantation's overseer.
Four Seasons Resort Exuma At Emerald Bay - Bahamas
The Four
Seasons Resort Great Exuma at Emerald Bay features a
course designed by Greg Norman. The resort is 90
miles south of Nassau on Great Exuma, near the
capital city of Georgetown, although most of the 365
islands that form the Exumas chain are uninhabited.
Opened in 2003, the inland holes are routed around
mangrove preserves and through palms on the higher
ground overlooking the ocean. There is a sextet of
seaside holes, Nos. 11 through 16, that wind along a
peninsula studded with coral rock that is surrounded
by the cornflower-blue Caribbean. The ample fairways
are seeded with saltwater-resistant pas palum grass
and the fine, milky-white sand in the bunkers was
dredged from Emerald Bay. Norman has purchased a
slip at the resort to moor his 228-foot motor yacht,
christened Allssie Rules.
The White Witch, Jamaica and
Four Seasons Resort Exuma At Emerald Bay, Bahamas
