Royal Turks and Caicos Golf Club — Attraction in Providenciales

You know, this was actually a fun morning of Golfing. We were looking for a break from the beach and played one morning. Course was in solid shape and played well. Back 9 is much tougher than the front and by the time you make the turn, the wind picks up some as well so that doesn't help. We played as a 2 some in about 3.5 hours and we took our time. No rush, mon! I play ever week on a nice course and am a 10 Handicap. This was not Pebble, but for a small island it was a fun round with a few tougher holes. It's all inland with no real ocean views, but it has a lot of water on the course with birds and some decent scenery. I just played in my sneakers and brought a glove and balls with me. Rental clubs were solid, new Taylor Made for $60. I think they will let you play another round after lunch with out charging you, but we had to get back to the kids.

I would recommend booking everything directly with the course, our resort was trying to mark it up $50-70/person. I would pre order a taxi over to the course, we waited 20 min for one in the morning and had to push back our tee time, but that was not a problem. Taxi was $8/person each way. If you ask they can swing by the cigar store on the way to the course. The have coolers for beer to take out on the course with ice. I'm sure there are some green fee deals around, but we didn't look that hard for them. Its a short course, by hole 4 I put away the driver and was just hitting a 3 wood, straight wins over long here, except for a few wide open fairways.

Finally, the Wings at the 19th hole were solid and a beer was cold! All in a fine experience, maybe a little on the expensive side for what it is, but if you love to play golf, go play it once on...

We had a really fun outing on the course. First the online portal wouldn’t let me book as a solo, however when emailed they assisted me in booking right away. I also had my wife as a rider and they didn’t charge me at all for her so that was very nice.

The grounds have a hitting net with free range balls, a chipping green and putting green. The clubhouse is very nice as well. They had a drink cart driving around which we visited a few times. The final price for club rental and the round was about $225-250. The clubs weren’t the newest titleist clubs on the market but they were newer-ish.

The carts are equipped with digital screens with each hole and distance to the green which was nice since we didn’t bring a range finder.

You get 6 balls for 18 holes which I’d recommend bringing some more. Buying a sleeve of 3 balls was $24 and a glove was $32. They did have second hand balls which were 2/$5 which was nice compared to a sleeve for $25. The new balls for sale are stamped with the course logo so that is nice at least.

At the end of our round of 18 they weren’t busy so they told us to keep going for free. We ended up playing 27 but I think they would’ve let us play 54 holes if we wanted to. They just told us over and over to keep going.

I only took off 1 star because the bunkers weren’t very nice. They were rocky and I pulled out of them to avoid damaging the golf club rentals. Otherwise we had a lot of...

This year only the front 9 is open as the back 9 is being reworked. We played the front 4X (two 18 hole rounds) and I have to admit we were pleasantly surprised. The course was wide open this time of year (October) and wonderfully maintained. While some holes are tight you are rewarded with course management. Greens are very firm and a high approach shot is rewarded. The greens did putt exceptional well which is hard to believe with the more course looking grass blades. Many people were putting from 10'+ off the greens and it was easy to do. They made us feel welcome from the time we got to the course. To my American beer drinking golf buddies be ready for sticker shock at the snack bar...$51 per 6 pack is the norm there which is 2x + more than most clubs in the States. I would definitely go back if in Turks again. Just a little advice the GPS location service on the Island flat out sucks so make sure you screen shot your route to wherever you are going in case your signal fails you...which happened all the time to us. LASTLY: if the course isn't busy they'll probably let you play all you want...