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Course 2 at Half Moon Golf Club.
A beautiful suite awaits you at Half
Moon.
Rose Hall Course at Wyndham combines
breathtaking ocean views with golf.
Hear the caddies sing as a golfer putts at
Breezes Runaway Bay.
Spend a day sailing at Half Moon.
Course 1 at Half Moon Golf Club, in
Montego Bay.
Golfers practice driving at Breezes.
For a change of pace, Half Moon
offers croquet.
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The unhurried way of life, the gentle trade winds sighing
in the palms, the smiling caddie who hands you the right
club every time, make Jamaica a paradise for golfers.
Imagine yourself on Tryall's 15th par 3 (where the Johnny
Walker World Championship was hosted) with the challenge of
the Caribbean all the way to the green. At 175 yards, you
finger your 5 iron, only to pause when you remember the
Flint River runs straight across the front of the green and
the steady tropical breeze is more like 20 miles an hour,
left top right. Time for your knockdown 3 iron! The world's
finest golfers consider par and achievement on this
magnificent hole &endash; man against nature.
No less intimidating is a selection of fabulous golf
holes in a country where the golfer can scour the true
origins and atmosphere of the game. Runaway Bay, developed
by the British in the early 1950's, has several caddies who
are 30 year employees of the club.
Home course of Seymour Rose, Jamaica's leading
professional golfer, Runaway Bay is very walkable with a
caddie, and laid out on gentle slopes opposite the supremely
comfortable SuperClubs Resort on the beach.
A new clubhouse is being finished now to replace the one
lost in a fire. The golf operation is excellent and golf
lessons are available.
As a qualifying course for the World Cup Team, Runaway
Bay will test your game to its limits. The fabulous views
over the lush tropical foliage to the ocean beyond, are
unforgettable especially on the back nine.
Jamaica's North Coast
Flying into Montego Bay on the northwest end of the
island, the golfer has a surfeit of choices to make. The
basic choice one has to make includes attending the David
Leadbetter Golf Academy at Half Moon & Tennis Beach
Resort. It is managed by Kevyn Cunningham with a
professional ease and sociability which makes the experience
so beneficial. A short stroll to the open air 19th hole will
relieve any remaining worries about your takeaway.
Here, in peaceful elegant surroundings, you will be
served by a charming Jamaican, whose cocktails include
"Fruit for Thought" and "Brown Girl."
Yes, Half Moon is a dream come true, a haven of quiet
elegance in an all too hurried world. Director of Golf
Attila Becsy and resident professional Byron Bernard are
unfailingly helpful and masters of their craft &endash;
hospitality.
Great Houses, Great
Golf
The remnants of the plantation life of past centuries
abound along this Jamaican coast. Rose Hall, set high on the
mountainside, overlooks the 18- hole course which tumbles
and turns through the foothills on the inward half. The
Wyndham Resort on the beach is quietly lost to view as you
climb through the forest. However, "Chinanous Reed" the
oceanside par 4 right on the ocean and "Peek-A-Blue," the
previous par 3, will linger in your memory. The combination
of ocean and the dense jungle vegetation on the homeward
stretch makes for a real Jamaican golf experience.
Ocho Rios
You won't find "8 Rivers" at Ocho Rios as translation may
have you believe. Instead, the mispronunciation of
generations of British settlers turned Spanish explorers'
descriptive word "Churrias" (waterfalls) into the name we
use today.
Dunn's River Falls, celebrated in films, and a real
expedition of river rafting, is close by the Sandals Golf
and Country Club, as is the Upton Golf Course, set in a high
valley above the town. Without question, this unique hidden
valley, unsuspected as you climb the narrow road from town,
is a veritable "Shangri-La" hidden from civilization.
Uniformed caddies, eye-stopping tropical flowers, huge trees
and the muffled noises of village set Upton apart. The speed
of the greens will surprise you, and the visual drama of the
surroundings will leave you certain you will never tire of
golf on fairways like these.
Jamaica - Solid Gold
At Runaway Bay, one of our caddies launched into a burst
of singing rhyme each time a good drive was struck. Happy
with our shots, he sang, "Solid Gold, Rock & Roll, Solid
Gold Run Dat Ball, Sol...id Go...ld, man!" to the delight of
our foursome. It sums up what you can expect on your golfing
vacation to the land of wood and water &endash; Jamaica
&endash; Solid Gold!
For more information about Jamaican
paradise golf vacations, call:
Half Moon Golf,
Tennis & Beach Club
876-953-9767
Air Jamaica
800-523-5585
Breezes Runaway Bay/SuperClubs
800-859-7873
Wyndham Rose Hall
800-822-4200
Sandals Dunn's River Resort & Golf v
800-SANDALS
Tryall Club Resort & Villas
800-336-4571
Limousine & Tours, David Rowe
876-999-5541
Jamaica Tourist Board
800-233-4JTB
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