Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos area, in the span of a few short years, has become one of North America’s hottest golf destinations—and it’s no wonder. The Tom Weiskopf-designed eighteen-hole Desert Course at Cabo del Sol marks the sixth championship golf course to open in the Cabo San Lucas area. From humble beginnings at the nine hole Campo de Golf in San Jose del Cabo, golf has grown to become the number two attraction in Los Cabos. The municipality of Los Cabos, an area comprising roughly half of the Baja California Sur peninsula below the capital city of La Paz, includes Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, The Tourist Corridor and Todos Santos. In 1990 it was Don Koll, a dedicated golfer and successful California developer, who commissioned Hall of Fame great, Jack Nicklaus, to design twenty-seven holes of golf at the Palmilla (now One & Only Palmilla) resort. The latest addition to Los Cabos is found at Duerto Los Cabos near San Jose Del Cabo. Two new courses, one designed by Jack Niklaus and one by Greg Norman will challenge any level of golfer.

The impact on Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos area has been phenomenal. Koll envisioned this area as a world-class resort vacation center, and today there are three Nicklaus-designed golf courses in Los Cabos—twenty-seven holes at Palmilla, eighteen holes at the Eldorado Golf Club at Cabo Real, and eighteen holes at Cabo del Sol. To round things out, there are the Robert Trent Jones II-designed Cabo Real Golf Club, Dye Corporation-designed Cabo San Lucas Country Club and the Tom Weiskopf- designed eighteen-hole Desert Course at Cabo del Sol. Los Cabos has been the site of the PGA Senior Slam Tournament since 1995, attracting golf greats such as Raymond Floyd, Dave Stockton and Hale Irwin.