How's the golf in and around Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico?
Thomas Hellyer - Chapala Home Sales
Locally, there are two golf courses in Chapala and Ajijic. One is in Chula Vista, which is in between the towns of Chapala and Ajijic. It is a no-cart course, hilly with short fairways, but tricky so that is one where you have to have a really good short game. It is a nine-hole course with two tees for each hole so you can play 18-holes or different approaches.We also have a larger, more traditional golf course on the east end past Chapala, called the Chapala Country Club,...
Locally, there are two golf courses in Chapala and Ajijic. One is in Chula Vista, which is in between the towns of Chapala and Ajijic. It is a no-cart course, hilly with short fairways, but tricky so that is one where you have to have a really good short game. It is a nine-hole course with two tees for each hole so you can play 18-holes or different approaches.We also have a larger, more traditional golf course on the east end past Chapala, called the Chapala Country Club, which is surrounded by the Vista de Lago housing development. That golf course allows carts and is also a 9-hole course but with eighteen pins.
Within half hour to an hour away from Chapala and Ajijic, there is a whole bunch of golf courses in the Guadalajara area that are very fancy and beautiful as well. Groups of expats from here go to those golf courses as well.
The common price for golf club memberships here is very low on an annual basis. Neither of the local courses are public courses so for non-members, I believe it costs somewhere between US $25 to $40 to play a round.
(Chapala Country Club, Chapala, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted February 8, 2016
Jerry Smith, MD
Golf is rudimentary in the Chapala area. If you’re a true golfer, you’re going to have to drive 40 minutes to the outskirts of Guadalajara where they have world-class golf courses. They’re fairly pricey and I personally don’t like spending all that time on the highway. Plus I would ride a golf cart in Guadalajara because they have them, so it’s better for me to play on my beautiful little Chula Vista course here. It has 400-year-old trees and a...Golf is rudimentary in the Chapala area. If you’re a true golfer, you’re going to have to drive 40 minutes to the outskirts of Guadalajara where they have world-class golf courses. They’re fairly pricey and I personally don’t like spending all that time on the highway. Plus I would ride a golf cart in Guadalajara because they have them, so it’s better for me to play on my beautiful little Chula Vista course here. It has 400-year-old trees and a valley with a little stream running through it. It’s like a walk in the park. It’s beautifully landscaped with lots of trees and flowers. We have flowers that bloom here year round, and it’s just a gorgeous place. Chula Vista an executive course. There are no par 5s. It is 3 or 3 and a half miles to walk around it. It’s a 9-hole course so you do it twice from different tee boxes. Most of the greens are elevated. Playing a round is equivalent to about 20 flights of stairs.
The fairways are narrow and you have to be really precise. For instance, in Texas my friends have to give me a stroke a hole so I can compete with them, but the golf course here is so narrow that we play heads up because when my Texas friends hit the ball, it will often veer off course, and they get penalty strokes, and I play straight right down the middle. I’m used to controlling the ball rather than going for distance.
The other local 9 hole course at the Chapala Country Club is more wide open, but it is a 30 min. drive away.
(Chula Vista Golf Course, Ajijic, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted July 4, 2016
Gabriel Varela, MD - Gabriel Varela - Neurosurgeon
Here in the overall area we have two nice golf courses. One of them is very close to my office, Chula Vista Golf Course. Chula Vista is a small course with 9 holes. You have to walk and enjoy the scenery because in this golf course people don’t use carts. You get more exercise because you are walking. The terrain at Chula Vista is very, very nice. The other golf course is in another part of the Rivera, 20 minutes from here, called Country Club de...
Here in the overall area we have two nice golf courses. One of them is very close to my office, Chula Vista Golf Course. Chula Vista is a small course with 9 holes. You have to walk and enjoy the scenery because in this golf course people don’t use carts. You get more exercise because you are walking. The terrain at Chula Vista is very, very nice. The other golf course is in another part of the Rivera, 20 minutes from here, called Country Club de Chapala, which has 18 holes. You use a cart but this is very good. Club de Chapala is open. The price of the green fee here is 700 pesos (US $36). Chula Vista is a little more expensive.
In the Guadalajara area (about an hour away) we have 6 or 7 golf courses that are larger.
(Country Club de Chapala, Lake Chapala, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted November 21, 2016
Roberto Millan - Roberto Millan Design and Construction
There's a big community of golfers in Chapala and Ajijic. I have clients who go out to golf. In Chapala, there is one golf course in San Nicolas de Ibarra at the Chapala Country Club. In Ajijic, there is one in Chula Vista, but the course only has nine holes. In Guadalajara, there are around ten golf courses, which are very good and some that have been designed by Jack Nicklaus. In Ajijic, expats join golf tournaments, which run for three days. The...
There's a big community of golfers in Chapala and Ajijic. I have clients who go out to golf. In Chapala, there is one golf course in San Nicolas de Ibarra at the Chapala Country Club. In Ajijic, there is one in Chula Vista, but the course only has nine holes. In Guadalajara, there are around ten golf courses, which are very good and some that have been designed by Jack Nicklaus. In Ajijic, expats join golf tournaments, which run for three days. The expats stay in a hotel near the golf courses and they enjoy their stay. There are a lot of golfers here in Ajijic.
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It's very easy to enjoy the golf courses in Guadalajara as well. Expats from Ajijic drive for an hour to Guadalajara to play golf and drive back after.
(Club de Golf Santa Sofia, Guadalajara, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted May 25, 2017