Cap Juluca brings golf back to Anguilla
Greg Norman course opens under new ownership
virginvoices.com staff
Cap Juluca Resort manages Anguilla’s Temenos Golf Course the only golf course on the island. The reopening of the course two years ago was made possible by a management agreement between Cap Juluca and Flag Luxury Properties Anguilla, the owner of the course and developer of Temenos. The course is only a few minutes drive from Cap Juluca.
This 7,063-yard championship $50 million course, designed by golf legend Greg Norman, first opened in 2006. It offers dramatic elevation changes, and water features on 13 holes.
In planning the course, significant environmental efforts were taken to preserve and enhance the island's natural habitats. Most significant was the renewal of Merrywing Salt Pond, an island landmark. The pond's water has been reinvigorated, giving rebirth to its natural organisms. New flushing channels permit sea water to flow out of the pond during high tide.
Some of its signature holes include:
• A spectacular vista of St. Maarten and the Caribbean Sea at the tee box of the 390-yard starting hole. The fairway descends over 40-feet to a narrow, two-tiered green sitting on the edge of a saltwater lagoon.
• Large sand dunes on the left and a saltwater pond on the right framing the perilous drive on the 440-yard 16th hole that plays dead into the trade winds and ends with an elevated green surrounded by water and protected by deep bunkers.
• The drive for the finishing hole carrying the edge of the mangrove thicket in a vast stretch of saltmarsh that winds through eight of the course holes. The narrowing fairway ascends forty feet through rugged terrain to a narrow green carved out of the native shrub.
Green fees for a round of 18 holes during peak times are $225 per person. Discounted greens fees will be offered for twilight tee times, and to citizens and longtime permanent residents of Anguilla and St. Maarten.
Photo of Tenemos Golf Course courtesy Tenemos Golf
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