Designers Robert von Hagge and Rick Baril are starting you off with a taste of what's to come on this always-enjoyable, sometimes-testing golf course. After admiring the stream running down the left side leading to the waterfall at this peninsula green, aim away from beauty and hit your drive to the right side of the fairway.

Select your club carefully on this fairway strong par three, and pay attention to your aim, as the green falls off to the left side. Short shots will find several sand bunkers lying in wait.

Here's a longish par four with trouble waiting on the left in form of a mirror lake, and ahead at the elevated green, perched above a deep grassy swale. Think about staying right.

Robert and Rick call the sandy waste on the right side of the fairway a "beach bunker" because it flows down into the lake guarding the green on this strong par five. Stay left all the way.

You'll find the classic risk-reward challenge on this dogleg par four hole. From the tee, you'll see a split fairway offering two choices: take the safe route to the right, and have a long iron to the green. Or try the macho route to the left, over water and another "beach bunker!" and be rewarded with a nine or wedge to the green.

Six is a spectacular par three with an island green. The little Scottish pot bunker in the front may make you think about using one more club.

Staying left on this tough little dogleg will give you a wide landing area. You'll need a safe drive here, because your next shot is into “La tierra de los bunkers, amigo” (land of the bunkers, friend). They surround the green; so pick your approach iron carefully.

Here's the hole for straight shooters: a long par four with a slice of the Sonora desert warning you away from the left side.

If you're down one on the front, nine is a good chance to get even. It's a three-shot par five for all but Tiger Woods and John Daly, and you should probably bump a three or four wood down the left side past the dogleg on your second shot. Cheat left again on your approach, as there's water on the right.

Figuring you have just finished a snack and a cold drink, Robert and Rick decided to give you a generous landing area on this sinuous par five. They've even kept the lake near the tees, so relax and swing away.

By now you've used most of your woods, so you'll feel comfortable pulling your three wood from the bag and smoothing the ball down the fairway. Robert and Rick suggest that, because if you used driver and caught it on the screws, you might make the lake on the left. Think tempo. Hum a waltz.

Un hoyo que recordarás como astuto y seductor par tres. Parado en el tee podrás sentir la brisa del Pacífico en tu espalda, tranquilamente crees que podrías usar un bastón igual o incluso menor al que indica el yardage medio. Detente! Incluso aunque haya poco viento, necesitarás un tiro largo para llegar al green. Para un tiro seguro, debes alejarte por tu derecha.

Another challenge to those who think they can hit both long and straight. If that's you, go ahead and play it straight over the long sandy waste on the left, and you'll find a shorter pitch to the green. If you're a normal human being, simply drive left and you'll have a medium iron to the green.

If you want to go for it in two on this rolling par five, you'll find your landing area somewhat restricted by the ubiquitous pot bunkers around the dog leg. But of course the three-shot player will find a wide landing area before the bunkers, and plenty of room for the second shot. Sand again at the right of the green.

A deceptive little par three which, although of modest length, will ask you to select your lofted iron carefully. The green is wide, yes, but oh so shallow.

Now begins von Hagge and Baril's famous finishing holes. This one is a dogleg right, around a lake, so hit your tee shot to the left side. Your approach will be crucial here, as you're hitting to a peninsula green.

If you play from the way back tees, you'll hit from an island across a lake to the peninsula green. Mere mortals won't have to carry the lake, but will still have to face - from left to right - a lake, a rack wall, a sand bunker and grassy mounds. Vaya con dios.

This is probably one of the most challenging holes in Mexico. Some will say an M-16 is needed off the tee on this powerful finishing hole, but we believe that three of your normal, accurate shots will reward you with a well-deserved par.