The Best All-Inclusive Golf Resorts

Sandals' own golf page states complimentary green fees for all Sandals guests in St. Lucia, along with free transfers from the nearby Sandals resorts to the newly remodeled Sandals St. Lucia Golf & Country Club at Cap Estate, a Greg Norman remodel. That is the cleanest inclusion on this page: the round, the course and the ride to it are all inside the rate.

The resort around it is also the best one here. Grande St. Lucian scores 9.0 in our review, with a published 311 rooms and twelve restaurants, St. Lucia's only overwater accommodation on site, and two dedicated butlers per overwater bungalow. Scuba, airport transfers, gratuities and premium spirits are in the rate alongside the golf, so a golf week here has almost no variable cost.

The catches: Sandals is couples-only, so a golf trip with friends cannot book; Hewanorra is a long winding transfer from Gros Islet; and the overwater bungalows are an upcharge above the $320 anchor. One published roundup states that green fees are not included with the Sandals package, which contradicts the brand's own golf page — we go with the official source and recommend confirming at booking.

Emerald Bay is the brand's golf flagship: a Greg Norman-designed championship course on the resort itself, on Great Exuma, with Sandals' own site stating complimentary green fees for all Sandals Emerald Bay guests. For a golfer who wants to walk from the room to the first tee rather than take a shuttle, this is the entry.

It is the one resort on this page where the course is the reason the property is famous, and the Exuma setting — remote, low-density, famously clear water — is a genuine draw beyond the golf.

Two honest catches. First, the cart: the official page states that golf carts are mandatory but not included and lists a US$50 rate for up to two people, while one third-party listing describes a shared cart and caddy as included. Those cannot both be right, so confirm before you fly. Second, Great Exuma is a connection for most US travellers rather than a direct flight, and it is couples-only like the rest of the brand. We have not published a full scored review of Emerald Bay.

Couples Resorts is the other couples-only Caribbean brand and the one with the most generous golf wording we have found: unlimited golf is included, alongside a stocked bar in every room and a no-tipping policy across all four Jamaican properties. Where Sandals includes the green fee, Couples includes the rounds without a cap.

On our value coverage it also holds the category's cleanest record on the thing that ruins a cheap week — the departure bill. For a golfer who intends to play most days, unlimited beats complimentary-per-round in practice.

The catches are scale and geography. Four resorts in one country means no island choice, and the resort-specific inclusions do not generalise: Dunn's River Falls comes with the Ocho Rios resorts and a catamaran cruise with the Negril ones, not with Sans Souci or Tower Isle. Three of the four are au naturel. We have not published a scored review of a Couples property, so there is no rubric number here, and the exact cart and course terms should be confirmed per resort.

This is the family answer, and it is the strongest Mexican entry: golfers get complimentary access to the eighteen-hole Greg Norman-designed championship course at Playa Mujeres, and unlike the two couples-only brands above, Dreams will sell to a family. For a golf trip where one parent plays and the rest of the party wants a resort, that combination is rare.

Playa Mujeres sits north of Cancun rather than in the Hotel Zone, which buys a calmer and materially better beach, and Cancun International is close enough that the transfer is short. The inclusive plan is the Hyatt Inclusive Collection standard with World of Hyatt earning attached.

The catches are the usual Hyatt Inclusive ones: scuba and airport transfers are not in the rate the way they are at Sandals, and cart and caddy terms should be confirmed rather than assumed. Costa Mujeres is still filling in, with active construction in places. We have not published a full scored review.

Secrets Playa Mujeres is the adults-only sibling on the same Greg Norman-designed course, which makes it the obvious choice for two golfers who do not want children in the pool. The important distinction, and the reason it ranks below its sister: golf here is discounted rather than free. Guests get reduced green fees, not complimentary access.

Everything else is the Unlimited-Luxury proposition — a la carte dining with no reservations, premium spirits, 24-hour room service, tips and taxes in the rate — on the better beach north of Cancun, with World of Hyatt earning.

Over a week of daily rounds, a discount is a materially different number from an inclusion, which is exactly the trap this page exists to flag. Price the green fees for your dates before you choose between this and the Dreams property next door. No scored review from us.

Iberostar Selection Cancun has something no other entry here does: its own eighteen-hole championship course, the Iberostar Cancun Golf Club, on the property, with preferential rates for guests and exchange privileges at nearby Iberostar courses. For a golfer who wants to play more than one layout in a week without renting a car, that exchange is the draw.

It is in the Hotel Zone, which means Cancun International is close, flights are direct from most of the US, and the restaurants and bars of the strip are outside the gate.

The catch is the same as the entry above and it is the reason this is sixth: preferential rates are a discount, not an inclusion, so the golf is a line on your bill rather than a line in the rate. The Hotel Zone is also a busy strip rather than a secluded resort setting. We have not published a scored review.

This is the budget pick. At $288 per person per night as of September 2026, La Toc is the cheapest resort for which this site publishes a rate that has golf inside it, and the inclusion comes from the same Sandals St. Lucia arrangement as the top pick: complimentary green fees for Sandals guests on the island, with transfers from nearby Sandals resorts.

What makes it good value beyond the golf is the dining bench. A published ten restaurants on a 220-acre Castries estate is the deepest included list under $300 per person anywhere we cover, and the Stay at One Play at Three exchange adds roughly twenty-eight restaurants across the three St. Lucia Sandals resorts to the same rate. Transfers, gratuities and scuba are included too, and at a published 34 miles and about an hour from Hewanorra it is the shortest Sandals transfer on the island.

The catches are that it is an older estate large enough to need a shuttle, the beach is good rather than the island's best, and it is couples-only. We have not published a full scored review of La Toc.