All these lists can be taken with a grain of salt especially those from magazines that rely on the advertising dollar . Nearly all have two things in common , they are all relatively new courses and they are all resort type courses. In the case of the DR , they will be all relatively flat and over watered. Compared to the top courses at the private clubs in the USA, UK, Ireland and Australia, they are many notches down. The Caribbean courses and especially those in the DR are built and conditioned to suit the tourist and they are very successful in that way . I have not played the new resort courses in Mexico that are well represented in this list but I wonder if they are better than the more established courses in Barbados.