Puerto Los Cabos Golf Club

Two designers, three nines, one long fall to the sea.

Puerto Los Cabos is the easiest serious course in Los Cabos to get on. It sits in a 2,000-acre master-planned community on the East Cape side of San José del Cabo, and the public is welcome, subject to availability. You do not need a room in the development. There are 27 holes, two by Jack Nicklaus and one by Greg Norman, and they drop from desert foothills to the shore of the Sea of Cortez. The fee also covers food and drink from chef-staffed palapas on the course.

Puerto Los Cabos Golf Club green fees and tee times.

Book online through Questro Golf, the operator, or through its reservation centre (reservations@questrogolf.com, +52 624 173 9400, toll-free 1-877-795-8727), open 7am to 7pm daily. You can reserve up to 12 months ahead. Rates change by season and time of day: morning times run from 7am to about noon, and twilight starts at 1:30pm. Tee times are sold for four players, so singles and twos may be paired; to play alone you pay for all four places. Fivesomes are not allowed. Changes or cancellations need 24 hours’ notice or you pay in full. Groups of more than 16 pay a service fee. If you want two rounds, a PLC Two-Round Pass or a Questro Golf Pass (one round here, one at Club Campestre San José) must be used within 14 days.

The courses at Puerto Los Cabos Golf Club.

Ocean (Nicklaus)

The original Nicklaus nine, 3,576 yards, par 36. It starts in the foothills with views back over the San José del Cabo valley, then comes down to the Sea of Cortez for the fifth and sixth, two holes laid along the shoreline. Expect rippling fairways, sculpted bunkers and heavily contoured greens.

Vista (Nicklaus)

The newest nine, opened in 2018, at 3,623 yards and par 36. The first is a links-style hole playing towards the sea between dunes. From the sixth to the ninth it climbs to the highest ground on the property, which gives the widest views of the coast and marina.

Mission (Norman)

Greg Norman’s nine, 3,590 yards and par 36, with more than 400 feet of elevation change. It starts high in the desert and works down to oceanfront holes, building to the seventh, which the club treats as its finest moment.

The round, in perspective.

The club opened in 2007 as a composite 18: nine holes by Nicklaus and nine by Norman. Nicklaus later added a second nine, and the clubhouse opened in October 2017 alongside it; the club dates the new nine to 2018. The three nines are now called Ocean, Vista and Mission. Any two make a par-72 18 of about 7,200 yards from the back tees, with slopes up to 145, and every combination plays from the hills down to the water. Golfweek’s reviewers picked out a sixth tee more than 100 feet above its green, with the sea behind, and seaside greens at 14 and 15. Fairways are Sea Isle 1 paspalum and greens Sea Dwarf paspalum, firm and grainy in the dry season. Big waste areas and arroyos crossing the fairways make club selection on downhill shots the main test.

Know before you go.

Booking window

Up to 12 months ahead

Group size

Foursomes; no fivesomes

Cancellation

24 hours, or full charge

Dress

Collared shirts; no denim, swimwear or tank tops

Rental clubs

Callaway, US$65 per round

Make the trip work.

The four culinary palapas are a real part of the day. Each has a bartender and a chef, the menu changes every two weeks, and you can stop at each one during the round. Orders are to go, with a limit of two drinks per visit, and nothing is refunded if you skip them. Food in the clubhouse restaurant before or after is charged separately. Pace of play is set at four and a half hours. Callaway rental sets cost US$65 per round and cannot be shared, and Questro runs the only certified Callaway fitting centre in Baja California Sur.

Los Cabos International (SJD) is about 20 minutes away by road. Head south to San José del Cabo, then east past the estuary to the La Playa and Puerto Los Cabos area; downtown San José is about 10 minutes from the clubhouse. Taxis and hire cars both work, and Questro’s reservation centre can book transport.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. One&Only Palmilla Golf Club (10 km) · 2. Cabo del Sol Course (25 km) · 3. Quivira Golf Club (36 km) · 4. Diamante Cabo San Lucas (37 km) · Compare all Los Cabos tee times

Somewhere to settle in.

Zadun, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, is inside the community 1.3 km from the course, with 115 rooms, suites and villas facing the sea. Secrets Puerto Los Cabos, an adults-only all-inclusive, is 1.9 km away. Hotel El Ganzo, a boutique hotel known for its art and music programme and Mexico’s first B Corp certification in 2022, sits by the marina 3.1 km from the first tee. Old-town San José del Cabo has smaller, cheaper hotels within a 15-minute drive.

Make a trip of it.

Club Campestre San José, Questro’s other course, is a Nicklaus design of 6,966 yards and par 71 on the hill above town, known for its multi-tiered greens; the Questro Golf Pass covers one round at each. Palmilla is 15 minutes south-west but open only to its members and One&Only Palmilla guests. Off the course, walk the Puerto Los Cabos marina and the large sculptures set around the development, or go to San José’s Thursday art walk.

Find your season.

The high-season tariff runs from 1 November to 15 May, the dry, sunny months when Canadians and Americans fill the morning tee sheet. Shoulder rates apply from 16 May to 30 June and from 16 to 31 October. Low season, 1 July to 15 October, brings the cheapest twilight rounds (US$210 in 2026), the most heat, the peak of the Pacific hurricane season and routine aeration and verticutting.