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Brian_Ewen

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Club de Punta Espada
« on: November 26, 2009, 09:33:16 PM »
This photo is titled Club de Punta Espada .

Is this a Nicklaus Design ?

« Last Edit: November 26, 2009, 11:03:37 PM by Brian_Ewen »

Matt_Cohn

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2009, 10:09:30 PM »

Bill_McBride

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2009, 10:21:45 PM »
This photos is titled Club de Punta Espada .

Is this a Nicklaus Design ?



That hole looks exactly like the par 3 #11 at our Pensacola CC course designed by Jerry Pate.  The hole plays 155-125 yards over a pond.  There is a vertical ridge directly behind the pot bunker and the green flows off that ridge left and right.  Very good hole.

I have no idea who designed Club de Punta Espada.

Brian_Ewen

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2009, 11:03:08 PM »
Bill
I dont understand , how a hole surrounded by sand (?) needs a bunker , (never mind a bunker with a different type of sand )

 ???

Bill_McBride

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2009, 11:46:55 PM »
Bill
I dont understand , how a hole surrounded by sand (?) needs a bunker , (never mind a bunker with a different type of sand )

 ???

Our hole is similar except it's surrounded by 419 grass instead of sand.  We do have the pot bunker between the water and the green, with the ridge running directly away from the center of the pot bunker.   Here's the hole from my My Home Course profile on GCA.com:



Very similar except for the surrounding sand.

Alfonso Erhardt

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2009, 02:20:36 AM »
Brian,

Punta Espada is a Nicklaus design in the Dominican Republic.

Regards

Damon DiGiorgio

Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2009, 07:05:28 AM »
The photo is of the 10th hole at Punta Espada. This is a Nicklaus Signature design.

Damon Di Giorgio
Golf Course Superintendent
The Faldo Legacy Course at Roco Ki Golf Club
Dominican Republic

Brian_Ewen

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2009, 10:23:50 AM »
A signature design ?

Okay ...... how do you get to the green and back to your cart (Melvyn !) , without filling your golf shoes full of sand ?

Tim Gavrich

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 02:47:00 PM »
 :o That is a LOT of rakes.
Senior Writer, GolfPass

Joel Zuckerman

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2009, 12:51:22 PM »
I have had the pleasure of playing this dazzling GC on several occasions--on a visit in 2007, and again just about a year ago.

It is part of the sprawling Cap Cana development, a massively ambitious golf/marina/hotel/RE development that was in serious limbo when i was there in early December last year---a victim of the moribund economy.

But it has several things going for it:  Just 10--15 minutes from the Punta Cana International Airport, a superb boutique hotel, called The Sanctuary, and this wonderful surfside GC.  There was another course (I think Fazio) scheduled to open in the summer of 2009,just past, but I don't know if it did.

As to the question posed earlier:  You get to the green from the cart path that runs in front of the condos in the picture's background.  The sand is firm, not beachy, and shouldn;t get in your shoes!

Here's a story link about my recent visit---there were far more sports celebrities on-hand that weekend than there are holes on the golf course....


http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/cap_cana_where_the_stars_align

Anthony Gray

Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2009, 01:00:37 PM »


  Great call Bill. Does Pesecola have a green with a trap in the middle like Rivera?

  Anthony

Eric Smith

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Re: Club de Punta Espada
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2009, 01:03:47 PM »

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