Playa Dorada is an important part of Rafi Vasquez’s life. He was the winner of a contest to realize the landscaping designs of the Playa Dorada resort, a collaborative effort with the course’s architect, Robert Trent Jones. The Playa Dorada golf course bears Rafi’s stamp in the venerable palm trees, which, in a minimalist style, delineate the roads. His touch is inimitable. In addition to the soaring palms, the artist called on mahogany trees, sea grapes, almond trees, giant hibiscus, coconut trees and the majestic poincianas to trace the steps of the golfer.

At the Playa Dorada golf course, Rafi gives golfers a nice surprise at Hole No. 9, the most photographed section of the course, with its impressive view of the Loma de Isabel de Torres. Hole No. 15 is where golfers stumble upon a tropical forest, near the end of the course.

“I am not completely happy because one is human and always wants a little bit more,”