San José

Jack Nicklaus, who is by far the most prolific modern golf course architect in Mexico with more than twenty Mexican designs to his name, set out the course at Club Campestre San José.

Developed by Grupo Questro, the Golden Bear’s layout fits comfortably within a large residential estate that stretches out across the lower reaches of the Sierra del la Laguna Mountains, opening for play in 2007.

The course routing brings elevation changes into play at a number of holes – with arroyos cutting across several of the fairways – and irrigation ponds are used to great effect at holes such as the par threes at the 9th and 16th.

The par fives – two on each nine at holes 4, 7, 13 and 17 – are all strong three-shotters but it’s generally accepted the hardest hole on the card is played at the 439-yard 8th, where water hazards threaten tee shots on either side of a rather narrow fairway.