Just three weeks after Casa de Campo was voted the "World’s Best Golf Resort"  by the World Travel Award, Puntacana Resort & Club, whose golf courses include the P.B, Dye's La Cana and Tom Fazio's Corales, has been voted "Golf Resort of the Year" by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators in the 'Rest of the World' category.

Over 2,000 golf resorts from around the world were considered for this award category and were judged based on quality of golf course and accommodation, value for money, customer satisfaction and  accessibility to tee times.

Just another quick reminder that this weekend Playa Dorada Golf Club will host the North Coast Charity Golf Classic this coming Saturday 9th October. The handsome & couragous gentlemen in the photo will be donating his hair to the cancer society to help make wigs & to raise money. All funds raised will go to Sosua Kids & Friends of the Animals foundations. Please give generously to this very worthy cause. For further information regarding both the golf & charity donations please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Just a quick reminder that Big Break Dominican Republic is now airing on The Golf Channel every Tuesday at 9.00pm ET. Six men & six women compete for their share of a $100,000 US purse in a variety of pressure golf challenges at the luxurious resort of Casa de Campo on the south coast of The Dominican Republic. Very entertaining even if you are not a golfer.

Casa De Campo - The Golf Channel’s massively popular reality series, "Big Break" returns to our tv´s this autumn. All 10 episodes of this series were filmed right here in the Dominican Republic on 2 of the country´s world class golf courses that are no strangers to receving awards from golf entities world over.

"Big Break Dominican Republic" will premiere on September 29th at 9 p.m. ET. The series was filmed on location this Junes at the Casa de Campo Resort and the entire series will demonstrate to viewers why the Dominican Republic has awarded a top golf destination by numerous travel agents and golf publications.

PGA Tour - St Andrews, Scotland

With odds of 200-1, who would have imagined! South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen claimed his first major title way ahead of the rest of the field with a 7 shot victory in the British Open at St. Andrews. Louis managed to keep his cool throughout the 4 day event, at times having to battle the Scottish elements at thier best - high winds and rain and left all the challangers far back in the field. 

World number one Tiger Woods closed with a poor level-par 72 increasing his stretch of "non-wins" to 7 - He finished 3 under par in tie for 23rd place and was reported to have told reporters he was bitterly disappointed with his performance.

Woods, frustrated by putting and work around the greens, changed his putter prior to Thursdays start at St.Andrews, but it proved to no avail and he switched back for the final round.

PGA Tour

St. Andrews, Scotland - In what is looking could be a very exciting game, Irishman Rory McIlroy fired an impressive - under par 63 in his first round at the Links course. At just 21 years of age, he lived up to his billing as one of the main contenders to lift the Claret Jug as he matched the best score in major history two shots clear of South African Louis Oosthuizen.

It is obviously early days, and there are 3 more rounds to play but McIlroy took advantage of the calm  morning conditions, compared to Wednesday's wet and windy disaster, and fired 7 birdies and 1 eagle to sit at the top of the leaderboard.

Other notables included American John Daly, the 1995 Open champion at St Andrews, who relived former memories with a 6 under 66 round to share 3rd place along with Scotland's former Ryder Cup star Andrew Coltart, England's Steven Tiley and Peter Hanson of Sweden.

World number 1 Tiger Woods and 3rd ranked Lee Westwood finished the first round 5 under, while
Phil Mickelson, the world number 2, struggled to a 1 over 73

March 22 to March 28  - The Cap Cana Championship is back for the 3rd consecutive year and this year hopes to be even better than the previous two.

This official PGA Champions Tour event, with a US$1.6 million purse, is being held at the Punta Espada signature design of Jack Nicklaus golf course. This course is already listed among the worlds finest, with even some golf magazines ranking it as the best golf course in the Caribbean and Mexico. Eight of its holes play along and over the sea and from every direction golfers can experience amazing views of the Caribbean.

Some of the players already confirmed for this years championship include - Keith Fergus (Defending champion)  Bernhard Langer,  Jay Haas, Jeff Sluman, Nick Price, Joey Sindelar, Tom Kite, Mark Wiebe, Hale Irwin, Corey Pavin, Wayne Levi, David Frost and Vicente Fernandez.

The Championship is being televised globally through the Golf Channel and subsidiaries

OK golfers! JetBlue is going to start providing daily flights between JFK and Punta Cana - This will make the golfing vacation more convenient for all...on top of this, they are also starting a Saturday service from Boston´s Logan International Airport from May 8th.

These extra flights are on top of what they already offer to Puerto Plata, Santiago and Santo Domingo airports.

London, England - Casa de Campo, has won the World Travel Award as the Best Golf Resort in the world. This important recognition was presented at the 16th World Travel Award ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in the UK capital.

Amoung the contenders were over 19 resorts from countries such as the US, Dubai, China, Australia and Argentina.

The award was received by a very emotional Claudio Silvestri (President of Premier Resorts) who commented that he was honored to receive the award and that it was not only the acknowledgment of the quality of Casa de Campo, but also that of the Dominican Republic and the quality of vacation is has to offer to the tourist.

This is the second consecutive year Casa de Campo has won this presigious award. Casa de Campo offers such golf courses as Teeth of the Dog, The Links & Country Club all designed by the famous designer Pete Dye.

The World Travel Awards is the most prestigious event to be held since 1993 and acknowledges organisations world over for their contribution to the travel industry.

Saturday, November 28th - The Brugal Foundation along with the Punta Cana Foundation will hold the II Golf Foundation´s Match at the Punta Cana Resort & Golf Course.

The event is once again taking place to raise funds for health and education projects including the development of the 3rd stage of the public clinic in Veron and to provide follow up and support the teachers and managers of the Fe & Alegria education centers across the country.

Traditionally the two foundations have supported social, cultural and environmental programs in areas where they operate. In the case of Punta Cana, these programs are developed in the eastern Higuey province, whereas Brugal focuses in Puerto Plata and the Northern regions of the country.