Iberostar Golf Club Bávaro

Overview: Iberostar Golf Club Bávaro is an active 18-hole, par-72 resort course in Punta Cana, about twenty minutes from the international airport. Iberostar identifies P.B. Dye as the designer and describes an undulating routing through lush vegetation, lakes, streams, desert-like areas and a waterfall. Four tee boxes serve different playing lengths, while 105 white quartz-sand bunkers create one of the course's clearest visual signatures. The operator also confirms year-round operation and Supreme Paspalum turf.

History: The current Iberostar course page documents the active Bávaro course, its P.B. Dye design and the 18-hole par-72 layout, but it does not publish a reliable opening year. The profile leaves that field blank rather than attaching a hotel or resort date to the routing. No evidence was found that this directory entry refers to another Iberostar course, so the Punta Cana identity and the current course characteristics are retained.

Did You Know? Iberostar's 105 white quartz-sand bunkers are deliberately contrasted with the bright green Supreme Paspalum playing surfaces. The course also moves between lakes, streams, dry-looking landscape and a waterfall, so its visual variety comes from several different terrain and planting treatments inside one 18-hole resort routing. That contrast is more specific than calling the course simply tropical.