There’s a very good chance that you will never set foot on the Punta Brava golf course. For one, it’s a private golf and surf club, so you would need a lot of money to make your way in. Even if you had that money today, your chances of golfing there within the next few years are… slim. Mostly because it hasn’t even been completed yet.
Former Charles Swab executive Brian Tucker began work on the private club back in 2006, formally announcing plans at a press conference in 2008. He planned to build a private golf & surf club on a beautiful stretch of coastline land just south of Ensenada in Baja California, and the one and only Tiger Woods was brought in to do the original routing. The property is just about an hour and a half south of the border, located on a small point into the Pacific Ocean.
Very little has been said about the project since that 2008 announcement. Fifteen years later and the project is far from being complete. But, back in 2022, golf course architect Tom Doak announced that he’d be joining and leading the project in The Fried Egg Golf Podcast.
“There’s a lot of ocean frontage, and then there’s kind of a mountain on the inside of it that goes up like 1,500 feet and blocks it off from the rest of the mainland. So it’s just really this isolated property that if you were hiking or trying to drive, you would never see… It’s the most dramatic piece of land for a golf course that anybody’s ever showed me.” – Tom Doak
Unfortunately, we don’t have any imagery as to what it looks like today. Fortunately, we have some great simulation footage from Harris Kalinka as to what it might wind up looking like.
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