If you are planning a vacation to Cuba, and you are insisting on bringing along your golf clubs, then you're going to have to book yourself a tee time at the world famous Varadero Golf Club, Cuba's only professional, 18-hole par golf course.

Designed by architect Les Furber, the Varadero Golf Club was designed to meet the highest international standards for golf courses. Golf experts consider consider this golf course to be counted among the best-planned courses on the Caribbean golf circuit. The Varadero golf course combines a perfect mix of easy bogeys with challenging pars, in addition to other numerous design attractions including clever sand traps, island-shaped fairways, and well-placed inside lakes. The wide, well-protected greens, with difficult slopes can test the skills and makeup of even the most experienced golf. Although measuring a total distance of 6,850 yards (par 72) can be a true test for beginners, there are plenty of opportunities to earn back strokes with its long stretches.

The Varadero golf course starts at the San Bernardino Hill, known as the highest point at Varadero beach, all the way down, and includes pristine views, a glimpse of the Xanadu mansion, and other interesting sites. This golf course is said to be divided into two distinct sections. A first round from holes one to nine, that can be slightly easier to golf, and the back nine, from holes 10 to 18, where holes 11, 15. 16. 17 and 18 have a distinct and individual complexity. This mixture of holes allows golfers to apply all the technical elements of the game while still enjoying the beauty, peacefulness and quiet of the beautiful Cuban surroundings.

If you plan of golfing this prestigious course, there should be no problem finding a Cuba hotel where you can make your reservations, such as LTI Tuxpan, Bella Costa, Meliá Las Américas, Golf & Suites Resort, Meliá Varadero, Sol Club Palmeras, and Sol Club Sirenas hotels.