With
a design that meets the highest international standards, the Varadero
Golf Club has presently the only professional, 18-hole par golf course
in Cuba. It was designed by architect Les Furber, President of the Canadian
company Golf Design Services LTD (GDS). Varadero Golf Club is around the
hotels LTI "Tuxpan", "Bella Costa", Meliá "Las
Américas", "Golf & Suites Resort", "Meliá
Varadero","Sol Club Palmeras", and "Sol Club Sirenas"
hotels.
Expert in the field consider it to be among the most well-planned courses of the Caribbean circuit, as it masterfully combines the easy bogey with the difficult par, in addition to other numerous attractions. These include sand traps, fairways in the shape of islands and inner lakes. And broad and well-protected greens, with slopes that can put to test the skills of even the most experienced player. Although its 6 850 yards ( 6 269 meters) are not short of ideal stretches for the beginner, where it is always possible to regain the lost strikes.
The
course runs from the San Bernardino Hill, the highest point at Varadero
beach, all the way down; on the hilltop, the club house the monumental
Xanadu Mansion, former residence of multimillionaire Irenée Dupont
de Nemours_ features a bar-belvedere that commands a peerless view of
the beach.