2010 For the third consecutive year, Punta Espada golf course is recognized as the best golf course in the Caribbean and Mexico

For the third consecutive year, Punta Espada golf course is recognized as the best golf course in the Caribbean and Mexico

Also, this popular magazine categorized  Punta Espada, after having held for three consecutive years "The Cap Cana Championship, a PGA Champions Tour tournament, as one of the 50 best golf courses in the category of the "PGA Tour Golf Courses You Can Play ", and ranked it No. 8 among all selected fields.

Both nominations put the golf course as a flagship and pride of the Dominican Republic. Its  virtues and sporting challenges have been highlighted by the press, both nationally and internationally, and the beauty of its setting is within its main advantages.

Cap Cana managers expressed satisfaction with the news of being recognized once again in this list. . Efren Garcia-Estrada, COO of Cap Cana said, "Punta Espada has not only been awarded in different rankings in specialized media, but the PGA Tour chose it to host one of their tournaments, The Cap Cana Championship, which is a recognition to quality standards required at the highest level of professional golf. He added that "great professional golf players agree in pointing out that  their way across the field is one of the best in the world.  Among numerous testimonies to that effect, Fred Couples words should be noted.   Champion of the 2010 edition of The Cap Cana Championship,  he holds the course record with a card of 62 strokes, ten under par. The same as  legendary: Corey Pavin, Nick Price, Bernhard Langer, Eduardo Romero, Keith Fergus, Mark Wiebe and others. "

Four years after being built, Punta Espada golf course, a Jack Nicklaus signature design at Cap Cana, is considered the most emblematic and beautiful of all in the region, reaffirming the country as a sports lovers oriented destination, which holds all requirements in one place.

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*Other awards.  Punta Espada has received important awards such as: Golf Digest Top 100 golf courses in the world outside the U.S., "Robb Report's magazine in its issue" Best of the Best ", selected the Punta Espada as one of the most extraordinary golf courses worldwide. Selected in the second ranking position in the "10 Best Golf Courses of the Caribbean" by U.S. magazine Forbes Traveler.