Golf Travel: Ranking the top 5 golf courses in Cabo
Clicking through the virtual tour of Quivira looks like Golden Tee. I’ve made this comment about other courses before, but Quivira takes the cake. The 5th at Quivira might be the most gorgeous hole in the world. It defies all gravity and sense. Just watch the video on the link above. It’s nuts.
This Nicklaus design is perched on a hilltop at the very tip of the peninsula. It’s minutes from the partying of downtown Cabo San Lucas but feels like it’s on a remote Pacific atoll. The views and sites from the course help to enforce that feeling as well.
The course is still fairly new, opening in 2014 and winning two awards that year. Quivira won both the “The Best New International Golf Course in 2014” as well as “The Development of the Year in 2014”. Not bad at all.
Quivira checks in at #93 on the Golf Digest Top 100, but that feels comically low. If this course were on the rocky cliffs of Oregon or the Irish sea, it would be top 10. Given the terrain, it’s not well suited for spectators so I doubt we’ll ever see a full-field PGA event there. But if we could, boy, it would be like National Geographic meets golf.
Player beware: Bring an extra sleeve or three of balls. You’ll need them.