scenic overlooks on your way to the fifth tee box.
This spectacular visual to the east may have you thinking
this image is something you and your golf partners
should celebrate. Quivira reads your mind by positioning
something called a Comfort Station at the top of the
cliff. The Comfort Station serves complimentary breakfast
burritos along with your choice of beverage. As you sip an
orange juice, cold beer, or tequila cocktail, pull up your
golf socks before checking out the view at the 5th hole tee
box.
Quivira Comfort
By the time you do get to the turn, you’ll find the second
of three Comfort Stations. You may need a beverage to
steel your nerves in anticipation of the Par 5, 600-yard 12th
hole. This Matterhorn of a golf hole will have you yodeling
in Spanish if your second shot goes too far left. As your
golf cart plunges toward the equator, the fairway slaloms
vertically toward the Pacific Ocean. The 12th takes a hard
left at the putting green as you regain your equilibrium.
Brace yourself after sinking your putt. It’s time to get
vertical and drive up a steep bank to the 13th, another
ocean hole.
If you’re beginning to think that Quivira is a one-of-a-kind
For the macho player who chooses to play from the black golf Baja memory maker, you’re right. Not only did Jack
tees, the postage stamp 5th hole tee box is basically a cliff maximize the views offered by Quivira and the Pueblo
surrounded by a wall of Pacific Ocean blue. If you think Bonito Resort’s 1800-acres, he also tapped into his inner
Nicklaus has played all his aces before the turn, realize that geologist.
the next hole, the Par 3, 180-yard 6th hole is just as ocean
friendly, or unfriendly, depending upon where your ball
lands. At this point you realize that Jack must have felt like
an artist on steroids when he designed Quivira.
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