{"id":9778,"date":"2019-11-14T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.capcana.com\/?p=9778"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:45:03","slug":"golf-digest-ranks-punta-espada-in-worlds-100-best-golf-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capcana.com\/es\/golf-digest-ranks-punta-espada-in-worlds-100-best-golf-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLF DIGEST RANKS PUNTA ESPADA IN WORLD\u2019S 100 BEST GOLF COURSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/worlds-100-greatest-golf-courses?utm_campaign=likeshopme&amp;client_service_id=31201&amp;utm_social_type=owned&amp;utm_brand=gd&amp;service_user_id=1.78e+16&amp;utm_content=instagram-bio-link&amp;utm_source=instagram&amp;mbid=social_instagram&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;client_service_name=golf%20digest&amp;supported_service_name=instagram_publishing\">Golf Digest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golf Digest&#8217;s third biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses is truly global, showcasing brilliant layouts everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, but not the United States. This is not a slight against courses born in the USA; Golf Digest will continue to produce biennial rankings of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/gallery\/americas-100-greatest-golf-courses-ranking\">America&#8217;s 100 Greatest Golf Courses<\/a>\u00a0in odd-numbered years. A big part of the reason is that our two rankings are determined differently. America&#8217;s 100 Greatest is always based on evaluations by North American panelists judging courses in seven criteria. The World 100 Greatest uses a single criterion of overall greatness scored not just by Americans but also by international panelists organized by our affiliate magazines around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph\"><strong>63 [76] PUNTA ESPADA G.C.<\/strong><br \/>\nCap Cana, Dominican Republic<br \/>\n7,396 yards, par 72<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph\">Jack Nicklaus got his start in golf design working with Pete Dye, and his 10-year-old Punta Espada is a lively version of Dye&#8217;s 40-year-old Teeth of the Dog course (No. 27) farther down the Dominican coast, from the to the broad waste areas of brilliant white sand usually associated with Pete&#8217;s work, as well as the low-profile greens and the eight green complexes right on the Caribbean shore. Punta Espada starts and finishes on the Caribbean and returns to it early in the back nine, with the awesome 249-yard, par-3 13th directly over an ocean cove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Golf Digest Golf Digest&#8217;s third biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses is truly global, showcasing brilliant layouts everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, but not the United States. This is not a slight against courses born in the USA; Golf Digest will continue to produce biennial rankings of\u00a0America&#8217;s 100 Greatest Golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,381,66],"tags":[74,58,93,95,100],"class_list":["post-9778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-sport","category-tournaments","tag-cap-cana","tag-dominican-republic","tag-golf","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-punta-espada"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GOLF DIGEST RANKS PUNTA ESPADA IN WORLD\u2019S 100 BEST GOLF COURSES - Cap Cana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Golf Digest ranks Punta Espada among the World&#039;s 100 Greatest Golf Courses in its third biennial global list.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/capcana.com\/es\/golf-digest-ranks-punta-espada-in-worlds-100-best-golf-courses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GOLF DIGEST RANKS PUNTA ESPADA IN WORLD\u2019S 100 BEST GOLF COURSES - 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