How's the golf in and around the Panama City, Panama area of Marbella?

There is no golf in Marbella because it is a very urban place in downtown Panama City with large buildings and restaurants. If you want to play golf, 20 minutes away from Panama City, you have Tucan Country Club and if you go an hour and a half away, you have the Buenaventura Golf Club. You also have the Santa Maria Golf Club, which is a little bit past Costa del Este, which is a ten-minute drive on the Corregidor, which is like a speedway. From Costa del Este to Santa Maria is about...

There is no golf in Marbella because it is a very urban place in downtown Panama City with large buildings and restaurants. If you want to play golf, 20 minutes away from Panama City, you have Tucan Country Club and if you go an hour and a half away, you have the Buenaventura Golf Club. You also have the Santa Maria Golf Club, which is a little bit past Costa del Este, which is a ten-minute drive on the Corregidor, which is like a speedway. From Costa del Este to Santa Maria is about 5 minutes. Santa Maria is more of a residential area. It’s a new chic place to live Panama City and the golf there is very high end. It’s like a secluded part of the city where people go not to hear the noise and hustle and bustle of the city and to relax. It has an extremely high-end golf course.

 

At an equal distance to Santa Maria from downtown Panama City is Tucan Country Club, which used to be called Horoco, which stood for Howard, Rodman, and Cocoli. It used to be three army bases. They combined the names to call it Horoco and now it’s called Tucan Country Club. It’s right next to Panama Pacifico. Tucan has a high end golf course as well.

 

You also have the Summit Golf in Gamboa, which is about a 35-minute drive from Panama City past the bridge, very close to the Panama Canal. Summit is a mid- tto high-end golf course in the middle of a jungle.

 

There is also Club de Golf, which is about a 45-minute drive going east of Panama City. You need a membership to play there. It’s exclusive and that is where the majority of the businessmen go to play golf.

 

Coronado also has a golf course, which is about an hour away from Panama City going west. It’s probably one of the oldest golf courses here in Panama and it was designed by one of the world’s best golf course designers but not a lot of people go there anymore.

 

There is also a golf course in Buenaventura. It was also designed by a world famous golf course designer. They had part of the PGA Tour pass through Buenaventura before (the lower ones and not the ones where Tiger Woods plays). It’s a very good golf course. There is a hotel, a clubhouse, and it’s a very high end golf course as well. 

 

There’s absolutely no shortage of golf clubs in Panama.

 

(Summit Golf  Course at the Radisson Hotel outside of  Panama City, pictured.)