Golf in the Bahamas

Consistent sunshine makes Golf in the Bahamas the ideal choice for a golf vacation or group outing. The islands regularly host world-class tournaments. There is no winter season to limit play, just year-round blue skies and warm weather. Nassau averages seven hours of completely sunny skies per day, and rain seldom lasts for longer than it takes to get under cover, even during the rainy season.

There are some 700 islands in the Bahama chain. All are spectacular in their own way, but only a few are large enough to support a golf course. So, of all the islands of the Bahamas, only three spring readily to mind when our thoughts turn to golf vacations:

• Grand Bahama Island - Freeport
• New Providence Island - Nassau
• Great Exuma - The Exumas

Freeport is the brainchild of a Virginian financier with lumber interests on the island. In 1955, Wallace Groves was granted 50,000 acres of swampland by the Bahamian government. Upon this he built Freeport, now the second city of The Bahamas.

• The Reef Course
• The Lucayan Course

• Smiling Pat's Island Adventure - A Gallery
• East End Adventure's Safari
• The Dolphin Experience

• Westin Grand Bahama
• Sheraton Grand Bahama
• Pelican Bay Hotel

• The Ferry House Restaurant
• The Stoned Crab
• Zorba’s
• Shenanigan’s Irish Pub

Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, has been the hub of the island nation for almost 500 years, ever since the days when legendary pirates like Major Bonet, Mary Reid and Blackbeard used its sheltered harbor as a haven from the British Royal Navy.

Today, the pirates are long gone, only to have been replaced by bankers and financiers (pirates still, even if not in name) and the city is as busy and as welcoming as ever.

• Radisson Cable Beach Resort Golf Club
• One & Only Ocean Club Golf Resort - Paradise Island
• South Ocean Golf & Beach Resort - Paradise Island

• Seaworld Explorer
• Powerboat Adventures
• The Beaches

• Atlantis - Paradise Island
• The Radisson Cable Beach
• Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino

• The Blue Marlin - Paradise Island
• The Courtyard Terrace - Paradise Island
• The Green Parrot

The Exumas - two main islands, Great Exuma and Little Exuma, and 365 little islets - are a remote, beautiful land of rolling hills above aquamarine seas, breath taking beaches and pristine reefs where snorkeling, scuba diving and bone fishing are more a way of life than a pastime. Could paradise be any better than this? It could, at least to some: there's a brand-new, world-class Greg Norman golf course on Great Exuma.

• The Four Seasons Golf Club Great Exuma at Emerald Bay

Where to Stay in the Exumas

• The Four Seasons at Emerald Bay
• Club Peace & Plenty
• Regatta Point

Things to Do in the Exumas