Grupo Mayan Golf Lovers

Under the ideology of comfort and luxury of Grupo Mayan, there has always existed the worry for offering to their guests the most exclusive services, included Golf, Spa and a lot of amenities in each resort. All this have been implemented as a response to the high quality of life that the guests deserve and the commitment with them.
Continuing the trend and tradition of the best resorts in the world, The Grand Mayan and Mayan Palace by Grupo Mayan offers to its distinguished visitors the fantastic benefits of Spas and golf courses in each of its developments, attending to the proved kindnesses of these disciplines.
It’s no coincidence that premier resorts long known for their championship golf courses have become home to some of the finest spas. From fairways to facial rooms, golf and spa have become synonymous.

What spa specifics might best help your game?

•    Stability ball classes:
The instability of the ball helps develop stamina needed to play a 4-hour golf game; it also helps sideways balance, very important to sustaining the golf swing motion.
•    Stretching & conditioning:
Pilates, yoga and weight training classes increase concentration, muscle strength, balance, flexibility and endurance needed for stronger drives with less exertion, better posture with less body strain, and decreased risk of back injuries and muscle pulls.
•    Reflexology and massage:
Reflexology on the hands and feet is healing to corresponding parts of the body, and massage helps with recovery between rounds and can prevent or repair strains and pains.
•    Manicures and pedicures:
Seemingly superficial, these two treatments are important since golf puts so much stress and strain on hands and feet. Strong nails and smooth cuticles keep hands and feet healthy.
•    Facials:
A facial helps repair sun damage, slough dry skin for a smooth, soft complexion and helps fade sun-induced spots and discolorations.

And also, we cannot forget the benefits of playing golf at Grupo Mayan. Golf is good for you. It’s a game that burns up calories, reduces cholesterol and can reduce stress. Golf is great for keeping you in trim. Every round you play, you walk between four and eight miles, and burn around a thousand calories.

Brisk walking is known to increase cardio-vascular capacity, improve your lung capacity and your blood flow. When playing golf, your heart rate pumps away at between 90 and 120 beats per minute. This low intensity workout won´t turn you into the next Steve Redgrave – but it is perfect for gently burning off fat.

Even the simple act of swinging your club or bending down to place your ball on its tee or pick up your ball helps keep your joints supple and muscle groups in trim.
Playing golf at Grupo Mayan is not only physically good for you, it also releases powerful, natural, mood enhancing drugs called endorphins into your bloodstream. As long as you don´t strive to play with Tiger Woods-like perfection, just having a stroll in the open air and enjoying a round of golf with your friends helps to make you feel better. If the sun is shining – even better!

Grupo Mayan Golf courses offers a mental challenge. You are always thinking when we play golf, whether it´s counting endless shots, working out your Stableford score or just calculating yardages and club selection. All that mental exercise is good for you.
Golf is a social game, a chance to get to know someone better, that’s why so many business people play golf. A round of golf can take around four hours where individual differences disappear as playing the game becomes the common focus. Most golfers play with family or friends but most are happy to join up with a single golfer to make a three or four ball group.

Grupo Mayan Golf is great leveler – its handicapping system is designed in such a way that enables the beginner to play competitively against the highly skilled. There are not many sports where you can complete fairly against the super star!
The etiquette and rules of golf encourage care and respect of others and the course.
Play golf- it is not only good for you – it is fun as well- one of the good things in life!

Less than 96 kilometers away of the Mexico-USA border and approximately four hours driving from Phoenix, Arizona or from Mexicali´s Airport in Baja California, it is located the Grupo Mayan Golf Club in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, one of the best resorts of the country with luxurious and high quality facilities.

The La Pinta Bay estuary gives the perfect landscape to four interconnected buildings, designed under the parameters of Santa Fe architecture. Grupo Mayan Hotel details are supreme: extremely luxurious rooms, suites with exclusive services, six kilometers of beach, two rough surface tennis fields, covered swimming pool of 91 meters with warm water, snack bar in the pool, 24 hours cybercafé and other amenities.
This resort also includes an avant-garde gym, steam and sauna, as well as service of corporal treatments. Here the stress disappears in the contact of a four hands massage.
The fabulous combination of the mountain desert with the deep blue of the sea makes this resort an idyllic scene, specially for the golf player, who will be able to enjoy the environment, meanwhile he is practicing his favorite sport.

The course at Grupo Mayan was designed for Jack Nicklaus and it is a real challenge for the most expert player. The bigger challenge is maybe the strong wind, because the sea breeze becomes a constant adversary to the player, who must learn to support this pressure during the 18-holes.
There is no rough, which allows a nicer game and simultaneously interesting. The most distinctive hole is on the sixth position; it is of 190 yards and has four traps of sand.
Other challenges are the seven lakes, a river and the border of the ocean. Strait fairway in 13th and 14th holes offers the opportunity to put on practice all the possible knowledge about this fancy sport.

Hole 13 has a dog-leg par 5, that along the Ameca river, the wind makes it more difficult. On the hole 14, 153 yards par 3, the ocean is on the left side and a beautiful lake in the front, at the right of the green everything is exuberance.
This is a golf course that deserves being visited, mostly because shortly will have a Golf Academy by Jack Nicklaus in the Grupo Mayan Resort.