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White Witch GC, Jamaica


Built entirely by hand in the 1970s, it’s an exact re-creation of a 15th-century Mediterranean village, complete with cobbled streets. A collection of fi ne restaurants with enviable settings add to the plethora of options.


JAMAICA Ritz-Carlton Picture this: You are at one of the


Caribbean’s most stunning golf courses, carved out of 600 acres of lush greenery and rolling countryside, with panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea from 16 of the 18 holes. Golf clubs, balls, scorecard, tees, beverages and snacks are neatly arranged in your cart as you survey the surrounding landscape. This is the eye-opening 550-yard, par-5 fi rst hole at The White Witch golf course at Jamaica’s Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort.


The par-71, 6758-yard course was so named by its creators, golf course architects Robert von Hagge and Rick Baril, in reference to Annie Palmer, the notorious “White Witch” who was mistress of Rose Hall Plantation in the early 19th Century on which the course is built. She was purported to be beauti- ful and beguiling and to have done away with three unsuspecting husbands.


You’re just as likely to have a great culinary experience by eating local style—and here that means one thing:


Jamaica’s trademark dish of jerk chicken or pork.


Jamaican Jerk Eating and drinking is an impor-


tant part of any golf trip and Jamaican specialities run the gamut from mouth- watering curried goat and mutton to delightful national dishes such as salt fi sh, ackee, escoveitch fi sh, peanut por- ridge and chicken or beef patties (around one million of these Cornish pasty-like snacks are eaten by Jamaicans every day). We discovered that you’re just as likely to have a great culinary experience by eating local style—and here that means one thing: Jamaica’s trademark dish of jerk chicken or pork. Although there are thousands of jerk centers—as they are known—in every village and town and at almost every crossroads or street corner, there’s only one place to go. When we visited Scotchies on the


outskirts of Montego Bay one Friday afternoon, the line inside was already a dozen long. A reggae soundtrack com- bined with delicious aromas that wafted on the balmy tropical breeze. A cool mix of locals and visitors rubbed shoulders at rustic tables, opening tin foil parcels of tasty jerk chicken and pork accom- panied by roasted breadfruit or sweet potato and washed down with a Red Stripe beer, the island’s beer of choice. Off-course highlights include walk-


ing through the village of Nine Miles, (Bob Marley’s birth and fi nal resting place), climbing Dunn’s River Falls, rafting the Martha Brae River and kicking back on Negril’s beautiful white sand beaches and enjoying rum distilled on the Appleton Estate settled in Nas- sau Valley.


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PHOTO: DREAMSTIME


PHOTO: THE ABACO CLUB


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