Escape the Chicago Golf Winter in Puerto Rico

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With the Chicago golf winter now upon us, it’s a great time to consider warm golf vacations to keep your game sharp when our courses are under a deep freeze. One course worth a visit is the legendary Dorado Beach Resort and Club in Puerto Rico. The resort’s famous East course has just reopened for play after undergoing a complete 18-month renovation of all 18 holes.

Dorado Beach was originally a popular attraction in the late 1950s. After the resort opened, it was a famous destination for celebrities such as Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Gerald Ford, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Today, celebrities such as Chi-Chi Rodriguez, Felix Trinidad, Carlos Beltran, Ivan Rodriguez and Ricky Martin frequently visit the resort.

Escaping the Chicago golf winter to Puerto Rico in the next few months could prove to be quite popular as the renovation of the East Course is just the first phase of a complete transformation of the property that includes the addition of a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences and a complete restoration of the West Course. The hotel is expected to be open by late 2012, and the West Course (also redesigned by Robert Trent Jones II) will begin renovation in 2012.

The Dorado Beach East Golf Course hosted a classic Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf event between Doug Sanders and Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1964. The course also was the site of the Senior PGA Tour Championship from 1990 through 1993, and the the PGA TOUR’s World Cup of Golf in 1994 and the Chrysler Senior Match Play Challenge in 1999 and 2000.

Ideally situated on three miles of Caribbean coastline, with 1,400 acres of natural beauty, privacy and luxury, the Dorado Beach hotel includes 100 guestrooms and 14 one-bedroom suites, all directly on the beach, plus Su Casa, the original plantation hacienda renovated back to its original 1920s style to serve as a five-bedroom beachfront VIP villa. Dorado Beach Resort also features four 18-hole championship golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.; a restaurant by James Beard Award winning chef José Andrés; a five-acre, ‘botanical’ spa; a new Beach Club; and a Wind & Waves center featuring Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment. West Beach, an exclusive enclave of beachfront Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences, priced from $2.5 million, is currently available for sale.

To learn more about the Dorado Beach Resort, visit www.DoradoBeach.com.

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