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Costa Navarino: Bay
Costa Navarino: Bay
Navarino Dunes Messinia
Pilos, Messinia 24001
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Overview
At 6,140 yards from the back tees, the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed Bay course is slightly shorter than the Dunes but no less challenging or fun to play. Most of the tee boxes offer views of the historic Navarino Bay, and two of the holes play along the water. Holes at this course are loosely divided into three distinct landscapes. The seaside holes are framed by a backdrop of the Bay, with the short, par-4 fourth being specifically memorable with the town of Pylos in the background. Elevated tees characterize the Bay course’s canyon holes, and golfers need to navigate their tee shots through box canyons as the course moves inland. And in the grove grouping, more than 1,000 mature olive trees—some more than half a millennium old—guide you through a mountain landscape that is finely juxtaposed against the seaside and canyon holes. —Ju Kuang Tan
