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This place is nonstop,\u201d Oliver Riding said, pointing to the seat of our golf cart where his phone beeped and chirped constantly during our round at Santa Maria Hotel and Golf Resort. \u201cListen to this thing. I know what each (beep) means, so I know the important ones.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There were a lot of important ones that morning, including an email from a group interested in bringing a major international tournament to this resort on the bustling east side of Panama City. Riding, the resort\u2019s golf general manager, multitasked effortlessly, firing off texts and emails, returning calls and entertaining visiting writers while still managing to play a tidy round on the Santa Maria layout, a product of Jack Nicklaus\u2019 design shop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Santa Maria is a microcosm of Panama, which is buzzing with activity and optimism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Panama\u2019s economy has been one of the world\u2019s strongest in recent years, and that is reflected in our surroundings. A decade ago the neighboring Costa del Este suburb was little more than scattered warehouses, mangrove and jungle. Troy Vincent, who oversaw design and construction of Santa Maria and its sister course, Buenaventura, said when he first arrived onsite at Santa Maria, the landscape reminded him of TPC Sawgrass before Pete Dye recreated it with bulldozers and an unlimited budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was entirely in wetlands area,\u201d Vincent said. \u201cThat entire site was built up many, many meters.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, soaring condo towers, retail destinations and office buildings line broad boulevards in a master-planned community along the Pacific. As Riding gave me a tour of this pop-up city \u2013 passing the regional headquarters for leading consumer brands such as Nestle, Samsung and Adidas \u2013 he compared it to a mini-Dubai. It creates a stunning backdrop around the urban oasis that is Santa Maria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my daughters came here, they said, \u2018Dad, this is like playing golf in Central Park,\u2019\u201d Riding recalled as we studied the sleek condominium towers and corporate offices that frame the approach to the par-5 10th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More than a canal<\/h2>\n

Ask anyone who has never visited Panama to tell you what they know about the country, and most likely the first thing they\u2019ll mention is the Panama Canal, the 50-mile waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The canal might be the only thing that person knows about Panama, other than some hazy memory of the spirited 1970s debate that preceded the decision to transfer control of the waterway from the U.S. to Panama, or the 1989 U.S. invasion that led to the removal of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Panama Canal (courtesy of VisitPanama.com)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The canal was a technological marvel when it opened in 1914, and it remains so. It is mesmerizing to watch massive container ships gradually levitated, like some sort of magic trick, as they pass through the locks, allowing them to navigate Gatun Lake, 85 feet above sea level, on their way from the Gulf of Panama to the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Panama has become an isthmus of stability in a turbulent region. Thanks in large part to the canal, including a recent expansion to accommodate the passage of even larger container ships, Panama has one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing economies. The World Bank reported that Panama\u2019s average annual growth rate over the past five years is 5.6 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For adventurous Americans, Panama ticks off a lot of boxes. Panama\u2019s currency is the dollar, which lends stability to the growing economy and heightens the country\u2019s appeal to U.S. tourists. Panama is easy to reach, with direct flights from many major U.S. airports to Panama City. Visitors arriving from the southeastern United States, or even the northeast, could pick up their bags at Tocumen International Airport, be on the first tee at Santa Maria in less than an hour, play 18 holes and, if they\u2019re feeling ambitious, still have time to catch a $12 Uber into Panama City for dinner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Panama also presents visitors with options. While Panama City\u2019s nearly 2 million residents live in and among sleek high-rises that line the Gulf, one of the most popular nighttime destinations is Panama City\u2019s \u201cold town,\u201d Casco Viejo, whose streets are lined with bustling restaurants, bars and boutique hotels.<\/p>\n

The Santa Maria and Buenaventura resorts are managed by Marriott, and Troon Golf oversees the golf operations, so guests unfamiliar with Panama will arrive safe in the knowledge they\u2019ll be well-cared-for during their stays. It\u2019s just a question of what they desire from their Panamanian experience. Are you interested in golf, creature comforts and cultural immersion in a dynamic city that this year celebrated its 500th anniversary? Or would you prefer a remote, laid-back, beachside escape? Given the proximity of Santa Maria and Buenaventura, there\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t have both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two styles at play<\/h2>\n

Vincent initially began working on Santa Maria and Buenaventura a decade ago while serving as a senior design associate for Nicklaus Design. By the time construction began, Vincent had hung out his own shingle, but the Nicklaus team asked him to shepherd the courses to completion.<\/p>\n

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The Buenaventura Golf & Beach Resort course (courtesy of Buenaventura Golf & Beach Resort)<\/p>\n

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While Santa Maria, much like Sawgrass, was entirely manufactured, Buenaventura \u201cis a much more natural setting,\u201d Vincent said. Much of the infrastructure already was in place when Vincent began working on Buenaventura in 2009. The residential component and water features already were built, and the existing horse stables were neatly transformed into a stylish clubhouse that wraps around a small plaza in an indoor-outdoor architectural motif popular throughout Latin America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With everything in place, Vincent didn\u2019t try to overthink the Buenaventura design. His goal was to create a fun resort course that would lay lightly on the land, as if it had been built decades earlier. That goal was reinforced by the ancient and massive corot\u00fa trees that help define the resort\u2019s landscape, most notably two that frame the approach on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal was to make Buenaventura feel like an older golf course than Santa Maria,\u201d Vincent said. \u201cThe landforms are very simple, the greens are simpler, and with the waste areas by the tees, we were trying to eliminate forced carries because it\u2019s a resort course. It seems to fit naturally on the site. That\u2019s what I was going for.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s evident from the start. Alfonso Casti\u00f1eira, the director of golf, took a moment on the third tee to urge our group to savor the graceful manner in which the dogleg-left third and par-5 fourth flow along the northeastern edge of the routing. Only about 100 yards from the fourth green, work is nearing completion on a new marina providing access to the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

The front nine closes with a clever risk-reward par 5 that makes good use of the pond that frames the right side of the hole and front of the green.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Santa Maria Golf Course (courtesy of Santa Maria Golf Course)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At Santa Maria, Vincent created a course that is very different from Buenaventura, yet probably more in keeping with the Nicklaus brand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSanta Maria is a more challenging golf course because we have a lot more contours in the greens,\u201d Vincent said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a second-shot golf course. I wanted to bring the short game back. I think that\u2019s something we\u2019ve lost in the game of golf. A lot of the contours are built, and you might be faced with chipping off of a fairway cut versus rough. So it\u2019s a more challenging golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riding had told me as much beforehand, and it didn\u2019t take long to see what he meant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot happening on that green,\u201d I said to him as we walked off No. 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The vibrancy of Panama City was underscored as we took the tunnel under the busy Pan American Highway to the par-5 second, which runs parallel to the highway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the short par-3 fifth, Riding took a moment to orient our group to the surrounding skyline. \u201cLook at Google Earth. There was nothing here in 2010,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The short, dogleg-right sixth is the classic local-knowledge hole \u2013 not that golfers are known for being fast learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During a recent tournament, Riding said, \u201cI put the tee here (on the white tee box) the final day and it had the highest scoring average of all four days because guys kept doing dumb stuff.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The par-4 ninth is the quintessential Nicklaus hole, with water lining the right side and a green that is far more welcoming to left-to-right approaches. There\u2019s talk of flipping Santa Maria\u2019s nines, which would create a more theatrical finish in front of the hotel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A deluxe room at Santa Maria (courtesy of The Santa Maria Hotel & Golf Resort)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The back nine brings players closer to the high-end real estate, along with some crafty design work. Riding, for example, calls the 14th \u2013 with a semi-Biarritz green, bunkers front left and a swale right \u2013 \u201cone of the hardest par 3s I\u2019ve ever played.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That reflects the quality of golf found at Santa Maria and Buenaventura, though Panama probably never will have the density of destination-quality golf found elsewhere in Latin America, such as the Dominican Republic or Mexico\u2019s Los Cabos region. It offers a different, and in some ways richer, experience to travelers exploring the Caribbean region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I left Panama with the sense that the country is a fascinating Central American secret just waiting to be unraveled by adventurous tourists looking for something more fulfilling than 36 daily holes of trophy golf. In the post-Noriega era, Panama has in many ways emerged as a model for this beleaguered region \u2013 a largely peaceful, prosperous, dynamic country. Whether visitors want to lose themselves in Panama City, take a boat tour of the canal or simply hide away on a remote beach, they\u2019ll find a country that has a rich history and a promising future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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