Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship

Course Insight

Corales Golf Club is part of a 45-hole golf complex at Puntacana Resort & Club. Designer Tom Fazio made use of a spectacular setting to create a course that plays through many environments. There are inland holes bordered by lush trees and vegetation, others featuring crystal blue lakes, and ultimately the course brings players to six dramatic holes along the Caribbean. The challenge culminates with The Devil’s Elbow, as the last three holes are known. The 16th is a 461-yard par 4 that plays toward the ocean, the 17th a 214-yard par 3 with the ocean along the right side and also behind the green, and the 18th a demanding and spectacular 501-yard finish that wraps around the cliff-lined Bay of Corales.

New Event

The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship will be the Web.com Tour’s first tournament in the Dominican Republic and the first played on any of the islands in the Caribbean. The tournament will be managed by Sport Link of Bogota, Colombia, organizers of two other Web.com Tour events. The event will feature a 156-player field, with an eligibility component similar to that used at other Web.com Tour events in Latin America. “It is a great pleasure to welcome Puntacana Resort & Club to the PGA TOUR’s family of tournament sponsors,” said PGA TOUR Deputy Commissioner Jay Monahan. “The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship is an important addition to the PGA TOUR’s growing presence and impact in Latin America, which now features the Web.com Tour and PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, not to mention the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There is no question Latin America’s impact on the PGA TOUR and Web.com Tour will continue to grow as a result of these many competitions in the region.”