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Francisco Micheli in La Romana and at
the Julian Javier Stadium in San Francisco
de Macorís.
Info.: Liga Dominicana de Beisbol
Profesional (National Professional
Baseball League): � www.lidom.com
The annual international calendar for
sporting events celebrated in the country
is quite extensive. In Santo Domingo there
are many good sporting facilities, such as
the Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte,
the Coliseo Carlos Teo Cruz and Sebelén
Bowling Center, where gymnastics,
basketball, boxing, fencing, judo, karate,
tennis, billiards and bowling, among
other sports, are practiced.
For those with a need for speed,
there’s the Kartodromo Julian Barceló,
located in the Autopista 30 de Mayo.
Here, important Go-Kart and Karting
competitions take place and it is also
an ideal spot for good, clean fun with
one’s family. Meanwhile, the El Higuero
International Motocross Track hosts
several international events and the
Autodromo Mobil 1, located in the 16th
Kilometer of the Autospista Las Américas,
is the ideal venue for automobile racing.
Horse races are held at the Hipódromo
V Centenario, right in front of the
Caribbean Sea.
Info: � www.autodromomobil1.com
� www.hipodromovcentenario.net
For golf lovers, the country has truly
magnificent 18-hole courses designed
by the most famed and talented course
designers and golfers in the world:
P.B. Dye, with five courses in Casa de
Campo; Robert Trent Jones, in Playa
50
Dorada and the already internationally
acclaimed course of Punta Espada,
designed by Jack Nicklaus in the Cap
Cana area and considered by Golf
magazine as one of the finest in the
world.
Within the metropolitan Santo Domingo
area, golf is only played in the Santo
Domingo Country Club, a private club
that requires membership or a member’s
invitation, in the par-3 holes of Isabel
Villas and in Las Lagunas.
In the Eastern region, around the Juan
Dolio area, golfers can enjoy the
Guavaberry Resort & Country Club,
the Los Marlins Metro Country Club
and Costa Blanca designed by golf
great Greg “The Shark” Norman. In La
Romana and inside the world renown
resort of Casa de Campo, we find the
Romana Country Club, the Links and
the Teeth of Dog course. There’s also
Dye Fore in Altos de Chavón and the