Sweet golf at Cinnamon Hill near Montego Bay, Jamaica

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- Standing on Cinnamon Hill Golf Course's fifth tee dissolves all the problems floating in your head. The 453-yard par 4, called "Majestic Blue," glides gracefully toward the Caribbean Sea.

From the fifth and sixth holes along the sea, to the 17th tee box 350 feet above the shore, no golf course in the Caribbean offers more variety of holes than Cinnamon Hill.

Robert von Hagge and partner Rick Baril re-made this original Henry Smedley design dating to 1969, building nine new holes and modifying others. It reopened as the Three Palms course in 2002 before being renamed Cinnamon Hill. The result is an interesting collection of old-school looks (like the narrow par 4s at no. 10 and no. 16) and modern brutes such as the new seventh, a dogleg right to a green perched above a rocky facade and hazard, and the new 14th, a downhill par 4 where a tee ball up the right side avoids a bunker and dreadful side-hill lies.

Ponds highlight the best par 3s at the new fourth hole and original 15th, where a dried-up waterfall was once featured in the James Bond film "Live And Let Die."

Back-to-back par 5s at no. 17 (with a green framed by the ruins of an aqueduct built in 1761) and no. 18 hurdle more jungle hazards. They team up for an inspiring risk-reward finish on one of the Caribbean's most fun courses.