Bigger than the US state of Rhode Island and large enough to influence the weather, Grand Canyon National Park can be overwhelming for first-time visitors.
13.03.2024 - 16:11 / forbes.com
The Puerto Rico Open finished with a dramatic playoff Sunday, but it was hardly the end for the event. In fact, while I was attending the tournament—one of the most spectator friendly in all of golf—the PGA Tour and Puerto Rico Tourism Company announced a two-year extension of the longest running PGA Tour event in the Caribbean, since 2008.
“The Puerto Rico Open beautifully showcases what visitors can expect when playing golf here,” said Brad Dean, chief executive officer of Discover Puerto Rico. “Watching top-echelon players compete on one of our 18 courses during the tournament broadcasts with views framed by swaying coconut trees, crashing turquoise surf and towering rainforest ridgelines inspires golfers to visit Puerto Rico.”
Unlike most tournaments where it is hard to move through the crowds and sometimes impossible to get up to the ropes, the Puerto Rico Open is a spectator’s dream, uncrowded and welcoming, in a beautiful tropical setting. It’s also easy to combine a day at the tournament with great golf of your own, very close by. The PGA Tour came on the heels of Puerto Rico hosting an American Junior Golf Association Championship, the Latin America Amateur Championship, and in 2022, the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball—the first United States Golf Association (USGA) championship played outside the U.S. mainland.
But golf in Puerto Rico is about much more than tournaments. It’s about great courses and lots of them, swaying palms trees, beautiful beaches, and a bevy of resorts that have been completely renovated and upgraded since the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017. It’s also about delicious food—there are more than 4,000 restaurants here—and much of it is very affordable by Caribbean island standards. It’s also about the charm of Old San Juan, casinos, watersports and rum, including the world’s largest rum distillery (Bacardi). It’s increasingly about sustainability and stunning biodiversity—Puerto Rico is home to amazing natural wonders, including rain forest, cloud forest, waterfalls, the world’s three most famous bioluminescent bays, and El Yunque Park, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. National Forest system.
It's also the easiest place in the Caribbean to get to, with non-stop flights from many cities. A lot of travelers from the States like the fact that it is part of the U.S., with no need for passports, our laws, money and if you choose to rent a car, familiar driving.
Many Caribbean islands have no golf, and among those that do, most are lucky to offer one or two courses, with only a handful featuring enough for an actual golf vacation. Puerto Rico has a whopping eighteen layouts, including five that have been rated by Golfweek among the Top 50 Courses in the Caribbean,
Bigger than the US state of Rhode Island and large enough to influence the weather, Grand Canyon National Park can be overwhelming for first-time visitors.
So, you’ve decided this much: Grand Canyon National Park will be the end point of your next road trip.
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