Golf travel
Golf in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is the Caribbean's leading golf destination — home of Pete Dye's Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo and a coast of world-ranked resort courses, warm and playable year-round with easy direct flights from the US.
Playable year-round; peak Dec–Apr (dry season); Atlantic hurricane season runs ~Jun–Nov (peak Aug–Oct)
The Dominican Republic is the Caribbean's golf capital, and it owes that status largely to one man: Pete Dye. His 1971 Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo — seven holes hand-carved along the coral shoreline of the Caribbean Sea — remains the region's number-one course and its only regular in the world top 100. Dye liked the island so much he built two more courses at the same resort.
The other half of the Dominican golf story is Punta Cana on the eastern tip, where resort courses like Jack Nicklaus's Punta Espada and Corales (host of the PGA Tour's Corales Puntacana Championship) line the sea. It's warm and playable all year, and reachable on short direct flights from much of the eastern United States — which makes it the natural winter-sun golf trip for North American players.
We start with the crown jewel: Teeth of the Dog and the wider golf resort at Casa de Campo.