Puerto Rico Resorts & Golf Courses Officially Reopen July 15 By Brian Weis

Puerto Rico Resorts & Golf Courses Officially Reopen July 15

By Brian Weis

Many of the Resorts and Golf Courses in Puerto Rico have reopened in advance of the official Island's reopening. Some Island golf courses only allowed member play when they reopened May 26. Since then, the majority of the properties are welcoming public play, including Royal Isabella, Costa Caribe & Country Club, Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Golf & Beach Resort, Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve(home of Coco Beach Golf Club), El Legado, Deportovio del Oeste and more. The St. Regis Bahia Beach is allowing public play on weekdays, reserving Friday thru Sunday and holidays for resort guests and members.

TPC Dorado Beach and Palmas Athletic Club are currently limiting play to guests and members only. El Conquistador is the only Island course still undergoing a renovation primarily due to the Hurricane destruction but anticipates a fall 2020 opening. Learn more about visiting Puerto Rico at DiscoverPuertoRico.com including Travel Advisory and a Question and Answer( consumer) English.

Puerto Rico golf courses are requiring safeguards to enhance safe recreation, including social distancing, staff wearing personal protective gear, sanitizing golf carts, common areas and Pro Shops.

The Island of Puerto Rico beckons with stunning golf resorts providing everything players love, superb courses designed by the world's finest architects, year-round tradewind weather, and a tropical paradise that does not require a passport. Puerto Rico's courses are located throughout the Island with several in the northeast near the capital-San Juan. The Island is an enchanting haven where history, culture, gastronomy, nightlife, beaches, and natural wonders abound. It is bilingual, uses the U.S. dollar for currency, and is the air hub of the Caribbean. Lodging venues range from 5-star hospitality brands to being named a top Airbnb world destination.

Discover Puerto Rico.com is a private, not-for-profit Destination Marketing Organization(DMO) whose mission is to make Puerto Rico visible to the world as a premier travel destination. The DMO will bring prosperity to the people of Puerto Rico by collaboratively positioning the Island's diversity and uniqueness for leisure, business and events. It is responsible for all global marketing, sales and promotion of the Island and works with key local government and non-government players throughout Puerto Rico to empower economic growth.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.