Home to 13 golf courses, including eight championship links, Puerto Rico is justifiably known as the "Scotland of the Caribbean." In fact, the 72 holes at the Hyatt resort at Dorado offer the greatest concentration of golf in the Caribbean.
The courses at the Hyatt Dorado Beach Resort & Country Club are among the 25 best courses created by Robert Trent Jones Sr. Jack Nicklaus rates the challenging 13th hole at the Hyatt Dorado as one of the top 10 in the world.
On the southeast coast, crack golfers consider holes 11 through 15 at the Golf Club at Palmas del Mar to be the toughest five successive holes in the Caribbean. At Wyndham El Conquistador Resort & Country Club, the spectacular $250 million resort at Las Croabas east of San Juan, the course's 200-foot (60m) changes in elevation provide panoramic vistas. With the exception of the El Conquistador Resort and Country Club, these courses are open to the public. See chapter 10 for more details on the major golf clubs east of San Juan.
