This was the first international course I've ever played and I absolutely loved it. I've been to some nice resorts in the states like Pinehurst and the Homestead but this course blew those away for me.

The scenery was just incredible and the course super fun even for a hacker like me. And I had one of the best pitch shots of my life that stopped 1 inch from the hole from about 40 yards out. We teed off at 8:30 am and it wasn't all that warm at all. Drizzled through out much of the round but it was actually pretty refreshing.

Our round was cart path only and the carts had GPS systems and one time it got confused on a hole thinking we were off the path and the cart locked up on us. Never experienced that before. Then it did it again when we were on the street trying to find the next hole on the back nine but went the wrong way.

And we stayed at the resort attached to it so it was nice to leave my room and literally walk about 20 yards to the pro shop and get going. My only regret is that I didn't get to play it more than once but certainly hope to go back someday.

Oh, and we didn't see any anacondas but saw a bunch of toucans that I was sure I was going to skull with my ball and at one point something that looked like a big ass ant eater came running down a tree right by us and the next thing you know about 20 more just kept filing down the tree and then took off into the distance as a family.

TL;DR: Ended up being the most fun I've ever had on a golf course and after a 2-3 year hiatus the itch is back!