Pilará - Argentina

The pancake flat land around Buenos Aires means that if you want to build a course here you need to shape everything and move earth. When they laid down this course they moved A LOT of earth! They did a fine job.

Having played many of Jacks Courses I am starting to see many similarities in his courses. I am sure you have too and know what I mean. I am always happy to go out of my way for one of his courses. I think the land here was pretty mundane before he got hold of it and now there is a fine USPGA standard course that held the Argentine Open a couple of weeks ago. I can see why.

This is Golf on a grand scale. With a well routed swashbuckling journey that asks many different questions of your game and presents opportunities to play different strategies on each of the holes. Will I play a course in Argentina in better condition than this? I don't think it is possible. Yup it is unashamedly manufactured and unnatural but none the worse for it. They have got it right. I would play here again in a heart beat.

Once again I can thank Javier of wegolfargentina for lining up another fantastic fourball for me the lone golfer, Thank you Philippe and Ricardo! you can follow me on instagram: the_barefoot_golfer

JCB LAY

The Course opened its first 9 holes during 2009 and the remaining ones in 3 stages until the course was completed in 2013. I have played it many times, during winter, autumn, spring and summer and it plays quite different depending on the time of the year you go. It is a modern links, with not many trees, wide open fairways and some very penalizing cross bunkers. The Club has still not got a Club House, which is under cosntruction but the courses is excellent and well worth a visit if you are in Buenos Aires. With the prevailing wind, all four pr 5s are reachable in 2 shots, except some days where first hole which plays uphill can be longer while 18th with downwind can be very reachable but the lake that goes all along the right side can cause you big problems. The true jewels of this course are the par 3s, with very challengin and ondulated greens, where 2nd and 13th can play over 230 yds from the tips. And another thing that is great is that it has 2 reachable par 4s from the tee, 5th with a huge lake on the left side and 15th were OB on the left and water on the right make you think if it is worth to go for it (it is!!!). Tifway fairways, bent grass greens, challenging rough complete the scenario of this great golf course which will host Argentine Open in the near future.