Accessibility and convenience have always been one of Montego Bay’s best selling points because of Sangster International Airport and Jamaica’s largest stable of beachfront resorts a mere 10-15 minute cab ride away. Another major selling point is that within the last few years, the region has developed into a world-class golfer’s playground with four championship golf courses featuring postcard perfect
fairways bordering the sea. All of the courses are either almost brand new or have been recently modernized.
These include a Robert Trent Jones layout at Half Moon Montego Bay; the 18 spectacular holes cascading down the hillside surrounding The Tryall Club; the completely revamped Cinnamon Hill at Wyndham Rose Hall Resort & Country Club; and the lushly landscaped new White Witch links at The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall designed by Robert von Hagge. The area hotels can put together value-filled packages with guaranteed tee times where visitors can play two or more courses during one stay.
Anchoring the Wyndham and Ritz-Carlton golf courses is Rose Hall, one of the Caribbean’s most dramatic sugar plantation homes, or "Great Houses." Perched atop a verdant hillside, the elegantly restored home overlooks 400 acres of lush lawns sloping down to the sea. Likewise, the Greenwood Great House was constructed in 1790 by a cousin of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
