Located 15 minutes north of downtown Cabo San Lucas on the west coast of the Baja Peninsula, Diamante, a 1,500-acre private resort community, is anchored by the Dunes Course, a Davis Love III design marked by fairways, tees and greens carved into colossal white sand dunes perched above the Pacific Ocean.

This windswept, lay-of-the-land links, stretching to more than 7,000 yards, rambles through 50-foot dunes and skirts huge blowout bunkers in its journey to and from the sea. Breaching whales are a common sight from many of the holes during the winter months.

“You’re either playing toward the ocean, along the ocean or away from the ocean,” says course designer Davis Love III. “And then, at times, you’re down in the dunes and you pop up and are surprised all over again by the incredible views of the ocean.”

To enhance the integrity of the layout, Love and his design team returned to Diamante to replace the inland 12th and 13th holes with a new pair of holes (along downhill par 5 and a short, strategic par 4) routed through massive dunes and jutting out onto the beach.

Among the feature holes is the par-3 17th, its target semi-obscured by sand and scrub; and the massive 590-yard par- 5 18th hole, which heads away from the sea, offers multiple landing areas and plays to a shelf-like green perched 50 feet above the fairway.