Bahia Beach Golf Club

Robert Trent Jones got golf going in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s when he built Dorado Beach, the protectorate’s No. 1 course. Fifty years later, his son, Robert Trent Jones, Jr., contributed the island’s second highest-ranked course, Bahia Beach at the St. Regis Resort, cut through an interior section of land near a crescent of shore just east of San Juan. Though designed for relaxed resort play, the holes are quite stern, well-bunkered and circling through and around woods and an omnipresent strand of lagoons—you can lose a ball in the water or marshes on 14 holes. Most of the prime oceanfront has been reserved for resort development and real estate, but just enough frontage was given to golf at holes 16 and 18 to make guests remember they’re playing on the Caribbean.