NICKLAUS-DESIGNED OCEAN NINE BREAKS GROUND AT PALMILLA GOLF CLUB -- NEW LAYOUT SLATED FOR COMPLETION BY DECEMBER '98
| (Los Cabos, B.C.S., Mexico, April 7, 1998) Palmilla Golf
Club's new Nicklaus-designed Ocean Nine recently broke ground and will be ready for play
in March 1999. The Ocean Nine will compliment Palmilla's existing 18-hole championship course, the first Jack Nicklaus Signature design in Latin America. |
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"Golfers will soon be able to enjoy three distinct nines -- choosing between a combination of Palmilla's Mountain, Arroyo and Ocean Nines," said Rick Renick, vice president of golf operations for Koll Resorts International, Newport Beach-based resort developers. "Each nine is a championship test offering a variety of scenic holes and shots," added Renick.
The Ocean Nine layout, featuring a 600' elevation change from holes one to six, takes advantage of the natural desert and mountain terrain and incorporates challenging directional changes. Several holes are located within a pitching wedge of the ocean, affording players unparalleled panoramic views of the Sea of Cortes. Featuring two par threes and two par five's, the new layout, when completed, will stretch 3,527 yards from the championship tees.
"The third hole of the Ocean Nine is destined to be the most photogenic of the layout, with a lengthy par-4 playing right down to the ocean," said course designer, Jack Nicklaus. "We are confident that with the addition of the Ocean Nine, Palmilla's 27-holes will enhance Los Cabos' rapidly growing reputation as one of the world's top golf resort destinations."
The 900-acre Palmilla resort encompasses the Palmilla Golf Club, opened in 1992, the newly renovated landmark hotel Palmilla, and an exclusive residential community offering oceanfront and fairway living. Palmilla has been listed among the "Best Places to Stay in the World" by Conde Nast Traveler, the "Top 100 Resorts" by Links Magazine, and awarded a gold medal from Golf Magazine.
Koll Resorts International, developers and current operators of the Palmilla Golf Club, are the master-planners and developers of both Palmilla and Cabo del Sol resorts located in Los Cabos, Mexico. Cabo del Sol is the site of the renowned Jack Nicklaus Ocean Course named to Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses of the World" and dubbed "the Pebble Beach of Baja."
