Cap Juluca Offers Golfers a Present this Holiday Season; Cap Juluca to Open and Manage the Temenos Golf Course; Will Open for Play on December 19! (Anguilla)
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Cap Juluca Offers Golfers a Present this Holiday Season; Cap Juluca to Open and Manage the Temenos Golf Course; Will Open for Play on December 19! (Anguilla)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - Anguilla
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2009-12-02
Golfers will be excited to learn that Anguilla will be open for play in just a few weeks. On December 19, 2009 Cap Juluca will proudly reopen and manage Anguilla's first and only golf course, a $50 million creation of Greg Norman, the Temenos Golf Course. The reopening of the course was made possible by a recent management agreement between Cap Juluca and Flag Luxury Properties Anguilla, the owner of the course and developer of Temenos.
This 7,063-yard championship course was designed by golf legend Greg Norman and first opened in 2006. It offers dramatic elevation changes, water features on 13 holes and, with the help of Cap Juluca's brand of hospitality this season, one of the finest golf experiences in the Caribbean.
Located at the Temenos development just a few minutes drive from Cap Juluca, the Temenos Golf Course will be open for the 2009-2010 season and will be managed by Cap Juluca, the leading luxury Caribbean resort.
"We are all very excited about being able to offer such an elevated level of Caribbean golf to our guests at Cap Juluca and all the residents of and visitors to Anguilla," reports Cap Juluca General Manager Gary Thulander. "We're especially thrilled that the course will be open in time for the holiday season, offering visitors to Anguilla a complete vacation experience."
In planning the course, significant environmental efforts were undertaken to preserve and to enhance the island's natural habitats. Most significant was the renewal of Merrywing Salt Pond, an island landmark. Featured predominantly in the course, the pond's water has been reinvigorated, giving rebirth to its natural organisms. New flushing channels permit sea water to flow out of the pond during high tide.
Temenos Golf Course offers a golfing experience where sand, wind and water blend seamlessly with Anguilla's natural environment to present a golfer's paradise. Some of its signature holes include:
-- Players being greeted by a spectacular vista of St. Maarten and the Caribbean Sea at the tee box of the 390-yard starting hole. The fairway descends over 40-feet to a narrow, two-tiered green sitting precariously on the edge of a saltwater lagoon. Robb Report called this first hole, "The Caribbean's answer to the 18th at Pebble Beach."
-- Large sand dunes on the left and a saltwater pond on the right framing the perilous drive on the 440-yard 16th hole that plays dead into the trade winds and ends with an elevated green surrounded by water and protected by deep bunkers.
-- The drive for the finishing hole carrying the edge of the mangrove thicket in a vast stretch of salt marsh that winds through eight of the course holes. The narrowing fairway ascends forty feet through rugged terrain to a narrow green carved out of the native shrub.
Temenos Golf Course is just a short ride from Cap Juluca and tee times are now being accepted by calling the Temenos Golf Pro Shop at 264.498.5602.
For the 2009-2010 season, the greens fee for a round of 18 holes during peak times will be $225 per person. Discounted greens fees will be offered for twilight tee times, and to citizens and longtime permanent residents (known as "belongers") of Anguilla and St. Maarten.
About Greg Norman
As a touring professional, Greg Norman was one of the most prolific international players in the game's history. In addition to being the number one ranked player for 331 consecutive weeks, Greg Norman maintained active membership of the US, European and Australasian Tours. Norman's experience in playing many of the world's great golf courses over the span of his 25-year career served as a catalyst to develop his interest in golf course design.
First established in 1987, Greg Norman Golf Course Design has completed more than 70 golf courses on six continents. Norman's golf courses have garnered numerous prestigious awards for design, with many of the projects being awarded the coveted Audubon Society Award for environmental stewardship.
Norman designed golf courses have hosted sanctioned events on the PGA, Nationwide, European, and Australasian Tours. Given the breadth of Greg Norman's business interests, he is uniquely qualified and experienced to provide a special blend of land planning, design and construction to help deliver the best possible result.
About Cap Juluca
Insulated from the outside world, yet only minutes by air or boat from St. Maarten, Cap Juluca resort is a private self-contained enclave on Anguilla in the British West Indies, situated along two miles of the most pristine white sand beaches in the Caribbean. Offering a spectacular private getaway, Cap Juluca's spacious Moorish villas with 97 luxurious suites and bedrooms, five-star restaurants, exotic landscaped tropical gardens, and friendly and gracious service professionals provide an unparalleled level of luxury.
During season, the resort's guest list reads like a who's who of the social registry, but with a staff to guest room ratio of almost four to one, the intuitive service is unparalleled. Its ambiance is intentionally romantic, with surreal vistas during the day. With a ban on cruise ships, casinos and high-rise buildings, guests escape to the sun kissed sanctuary of Maundays Bay, offering anonymity for the affluent. Intimate dinners for two, romantic walks on secluded beaches and swift, sweet plunges into the tranquil surf are daily occurrences.
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