Golf as
Good as
it Gets
at the southern tip of
baja california
GEORGE FULLER By
As we putted out on the first green of the Ocean Course at Palmilla and walked back toward our cart, club manager Jason Ballog turned to me and said, "Now the fun
begins."
He was right. Not that the first hole wasn't
fun, a warm-up par-four, but as we rounded a
bend in the cart path and pulled up to the second tee box, the splendor of golf in Los Cabos,
Mexico, became crystal clear. A deep desert arroyo led downhill to a green neatly tucked into
a hillside. Behind the putting surface the Sea of
Cortez sparkled in the late afternoon sun. Fishing boats crossed the horizon in search of the
day's last marlin, dorado or tuna. The cacti were
blooming and the desert was unusually green.
“Looks like Scottsdale, but with an ocean,” I
marveled. And it's true: the desert golf courses
at the tip of Baja California Sur will remind
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