New Golf Mecca: Dominican Republic

Forget the doom and gloom. This gotta-play region hasn’t thrown in the golf towel, choosing instead to invest in the game, add new courses and places to stay, and reach out to traveling golfers. It’s where to go now.

Corales Course, Puntacana Resort, Dominican Republic

Behind every great golf course is a dream. In the case of Corales, the goal was to turn overgrown, inaccessible scrubland into something special. The lead dreamer was Frank Rainieri, who in 1969 partnered with famed New York lawyer Theodore Kheel to buy 15,000 acres at the easternmost point of the Dominican Republic. “When I […]