Imagine building 26 golf courses at the height of the golf development bubble, with nine figures in public pension money — in an effort that now loses money year after year. Welcome to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
In theory, 12-hole designs should be cheaper to play, build, and maintain. But in the staid industry of golf course development, there’s been no rush to test the theory. The minds behind Sweetens Cove are ready to change that.
Like the resort that the course calls home, El Camaleón is beautiful, well kept, and gives away all its inauthenticities at the slightest examination. It is enjoyable, most of all with suspended disbelief.