The most interesting, and upsetting, aspect of this is the golf course. It looks terrible! This was a gem of course which I have photographed and written about. What are they doing with it? Why are they not irrigating it? How can they let such an investment go to ruin? This is another prime reason why a golf course should never be built at Las Cuevas in Trinidad and why golf tourism in T&T is bound to fail!
A February comment from TripAdvisor on the golf course: "The golf course is suffering the same fate with hardly any green keepers, no sand in the bunkers which, green side, fill with water as the sprinklers are incorrectly set and/or have little sand in - some have grass growing in them (shades of Mount Irvine) and some of the greens have a disease which is getting worse and nothing is being done about it." Years ago I wrote about Mt Irvine GC and the grass in bunkers for an English golf magazine, and now the other once beautiful course in Tobago (above) is being ruined by the Government. Yes, the Government because it is they who took over Tobago Plantations and rechristened it the Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort. In charge of the course is a government agency responsible for running the country's industrial parks! No wonder the golf course is dying, just like Tobago's tourism industry.
