Santa Barbara

An 18-hole Pete Dye original

Santa Barbara's golf course is a rare Caribbean signature from Pete Dye — one of the most influential designers in the sport's history. Holes play directly along the rocky coastline, with greens perched at the water's edge and fairways that wind between limestone outcrops and the mangrove-lined shore of Spanish Water.

The course rewards precision over power: free-form white sand bunkering, ocean crosswinds, and greens that fall away toward the Caribbean Sea on more than one hole.

Calm water, white sand

A protected, shallow-water beach gives members a place to swim without the surf of the open coastline — shaded loungers, palm cover, and a lagoon-clear entry into the water that makes it a natural gathering spot for families.

Landhuis Santa Barbara — a future members club

The estate house that gave Santa Barbara its name still stands — a red-roofed landhuis set above Spanish Water, with sweeping views to Tafelberg and the golf course fairways below. Built in the landhuizen era and expanded since, it remains the most historically significant structure on the property.

Plans call for the Landhuis to reopen as a private members club: a checkered-tile terrace bar for sunset, dining rooms inside the original stone walls, and a place for the Club's history to be lived in daily, not just remembered.

Trails, cliffs, and quiet lookouts

Beyond the golf course and the marinas, Santa Barbara's undeveloped land is laced with hiking and biking trails that wind past the mangroves of Spanish Water, up through Tafelberg's rugged high ground, and out to lookout points along the coast — Bulado Beach, East Point, and Pelican Creek among them.

Birdwatchers gather along the water's edge near the estate entrance, where herons and pelicans work the shallows, while the limestone face of Tafelberg draws climbers for routes with sheer drops to the sea — the same cliffs pictured here, looking straight down over Marina Village and Spanish Water.