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Royal St Kitts, St Kitts and Nevis |
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Royal St Kitts Golf Club
Basseterre
St Kitts |  | Peter Thomson, Thomas McBroom |  | Scott Lien |
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 | +869 466 2700 |  | Quarter of a mile N of St. Kitts Marriott Resort on Frigate Bay Road |
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Golf Club Website
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 | Welcome, special twilight rates available |  | Sean Gradomski |
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Royal St Kitts professional, Scott Lien, writes:
Our signature hole is the par three 15th. It measures 165 yards from the championship tees and sits atop the highest point on the golf course. With the Atlantic Ocean as a beautiful backdrop for the hole, you'll be able to see neighbouring islands of Saba, St. Maarten, and Nevis.
The hardest handicapped hole on the course is hole 6, a par four measuring 457 yards from the championship tees. Playing into the prevailing wind makes this a long and difficult hole with bunkers lining both sides of the fairway and surrounding the long, narrow green. | Laid out between Half Moon Bay and North Frigate Bay on the island of St Kitts, the resort course at Basseterre was inaugurated in the mid 1970s and for over twenty-five years its delightful charms were enjoyed by a great number of visiting golfers.
Come the new millennium however, the layout was looking decidedly tired and so the management of the Marriot hotel group who run the course decided to radically update the course, calling in prolific Canadian designer Tom McBroom to renovate the design.
After almost two years of remodeling on the 125-acre site, nine holes of the revamped McBroom course were unveiled at the end of 2003 with the full 18-hole Royal St Kitts layout opening for play a year later. The new par-71 course measures around 6,900 yards from the back tees and its palm-fringed fairways are strung out along the Atlantic coast of the island, culminating in a spectacular closing sequence of holes between the 15th and 17th that run along the Caribbean Sea.
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Course architect, Thomas McBroom, supplied the following article: In 2002, Marriott's Royal St. Kitts debuted as Tom McBroom's first design in the Caribbean and immediately took its place among the region's most popular courses next to Teeth of the Dog in the Dominican and Green Monkey in Barbados. McBroom artfully routed the holes along both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, presenting golfers with a variety of shots, ever-present wind and spectacular ocean views. Royal St. Kitts is planted with seashore paspalum grass ideal for the Caribbean. The greens are aesthetic gems with subtle to severe swales that test a player's shot-making ability and short game. | | |
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 |  | | Average Reviewers Score: |  | | One of the main reasons for visiting St Kitts in 2002 was to play this course. Unfortunately it wasn’t open. However, I did play the course while it was in construction (there was nobody around and nobody challenged me, so what the heck) and was mightily impressed with the layout and routing. It was one of the most surreal golfing experiences of my life, playing round a course that was incomplete and frankly in less than perfect condition. However, I’m basing this review on what I imagine the finished article would be like with sand in the bunkers and mowed greens and I have to say that I loved it but I think it is the second best course on St Kitts and Nevis, behind the wonderful RTJII course at Fours Seasons Nevis.  | | 04 June 2010
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