Travel to Playa Herradura on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast for a golf experience surrounded by rivers, rainforest and remarkable wildlife.

Designed by Ted Robinson Sr., La Iguana Golf Course winds through tropical vegetation at Los Sueños Resort before emerging beside Herradura Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

In this episode, we explore how Robinson used streams, changing elevation and narrow jungle corridors to create a course where accuracy and thoughtful positioning matter more than distance.

We also encounter the natural residents of La Iguana’s remarkable setting—including monkeys, iguanas, coatis, scarlet macaws and more than 150 species of birds and other wildlife.

Three featured holes define the journey:

🦜 Hole #4 — El Tucán A 545-yard par 5 where a stream follows the left side, crosses the fairway an ...