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This Tour Combines Culture and Golf in Cuba

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If your bucket list is filled with some of the world’s most exotic golf courses, this cultural tour of Cuba that includes a golf tournament and competition is your chance to achieve a milestone in the once-forbidden Caribbean island.

Carlson Maritime Travel, in concert with international golf professionals, has organized a special Cuba tour for golfers. Carlson’s tour handles every aspect of the trip including air, meals, transfers and guides, required visas and documentation.

Cuba’s profile in the golf world is gaining momentum. Varadero Golf Club hosted the 8th annual Cuba Golf Grand Tournament earlier this year, and attending this time was Greg Norman, previously ranked number one for 331 consecutive weeks.

Xanadu

Tour participants will experience history on and off the golf course. The seaside Xanadú Mansion, built in 1927 by Irenee DuPont, is today the course restaurant and golf club house. During the awards ceremony, participants will dine in the mansion’s period dining room. In Havana, the people-to-people tour includes the many of the must-see sights such as the Revolutionary Museum, the Fine Arts Museum, Jose Fuster gallery, the Grand Theatre and the best of Havana’s architectural splendor. Here’s how to book


Here’s a sample of the tour’s Day 2:

After breakfast our golf tournament begins at the Varadero Golf Club. This par 72, 18-hole, 6269 meter course was designed by Les Forbes, the Canadian architect who spent many years working with the renowned Robert Trent Jones. Both greens and fairways are irrigated. Eight holes have water hazards, and there are many sand traps along the fairways as well as near the greens. Some holes border the beach along the dunes giving the golfer a spectacular view of the sea. There are three putting greens, one pitching green, practice bunkers and two driving ranges. This splendid course has been the venue of European PGA tournaments.

Refreshments will be served during play. After play: RUM AND CIGAR TASTING on the terrace. Evening dinner at the excellent French restaurant with a wine cellar, and a pleasant terrace bar.


Greg Norman in Cuba. Image by Golf Melia Cuba

Other highlights include:

The tour is hosted by golf professional Dawn Mercer of Innisbrook Resort, Florida

This Tour Combines Culture and Golf in Cuba was last modified: December 23rd, 2016 by Cuba Journal