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GOLF
Before
1959 there were a few golf fields in Cuba, although only one of
them with 18 holes, the one called "Colinas de Villa Real"
in the Havana's otskirts. It was opened at the end of the 50s
and today it doesn't exists anymore,and 3 fields of 9 holes with
a relative acceptance by the amateurs. We have two of them, one
in Varadero, recently enlarged to 18 holes and outbidden in all
senses, and the one in Capdevila, in the outskirts of Havana,
also in design process in order to make its reconstruction ands
its enlargement to 18 holes. The remainig fields, of 9,6 and 3
holes, were linked to sugar mills or to other cities in the inner
part of the country and for many years they don't exist.
Several
new fields are at the moment in different studying and developing
phases and that allow us to predict that Cuba is at the threshold
to be improving also in a tourist destiny that attracks this sport
lovers.Some
of this new fields are located surrounding Havana, others near
Varadero in Cayo Coco Guardalavaca and in the outskirts of Santiago
de Cuba.
Varadero
Golf Club. It is a privileged field, plced in where
it was the old field in the property that belonged to the North
American magnate Irenee Dupont in Varadero, recently enlarged
to 18 holes and outbidden according to the Canadian experts design,
constructed under a careful tecnic supervition. The sea always
al its side by the north and the south, is the loyal players companion
and in not so few stick hits, its worse danger, its house-club
mansion Xanadú is simply fascinating. It has a restaurant,2
bars, one is a tavern "In Cave" and other in the in
the upper floor, preferred by many people it has several luxious
rooms and other services.
Havana
Golf Club.
Located in the Havana outskirts, at half-way between this city
and the International Airport "José Martí".
It is along with the one in Varadero, the other survivor of the
old golf fields that existed in Cuba. Nowadays is in use, at this
moment it is in an advanced design process for its whole reconstruction
and enlarged to 18 holes in the middle of an area of soft ondulations
and an unimaginable verdancy at the same gateways of the capital,
because of its privileged localization and the nature characteristics
of the zone, where it is placed. It promises to become a place
of great attractive an to be asked for.
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