Cabot St Lucia - Point Hardy Golf Club

The 18-hole layout at Point Hardy Golf Club is yet another spectacular coastal course to emerge in recent years from the burgeoning Cabot portfolio. It’s a design by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw – who worked closely with the Cabot CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar when Cabot Cliffs debuted in 2016 – that occupies a difficult site with extreme elevation changes, requiring quite a bit a technical expertise during construction.

The routing is exceptional, with holes laid out as two nines that both return to the coast to make their way along – and occasionally over – the Caribbean Sea. The closing three holes on the front nine are certainly special but when golfers return to the cliffs along the shoreline later in the round at the downhill par five 14th hole then they’re in for an even more sensational conclusion to a thrilling round of golf.

After the short par four 15th, the par three 16th plays over a cove to a green on a small peninsula less than 150 yards away, followed by another one-shotter at the 17th, requiring a longer, uphill tee shot over a rocky inlet to a green perched out on a point. After those back-to-back par threes, the crescent-shaped fairway of the par five 18th heads along a small stretch of sandy coastline towards the respite of the home green.