Tame the beast that is El Tigre Golf Club at Paradise Village Resort in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico

NUEVO VALLARTA, Riviera Nayarit, Mexico -- No, El Tigre Golf Club at Paradise Village Resort was not named after or designed by Tiger Woods, although it did open in 2002 during Tiger's reign of terror on the PGA Tour.

The splendid Robert Von Hagge design got its name from the live tigers kept in cages next to the 17th tee. These beasts are just a mere sideshow to a stout, 7,239-yard golf course that can bite back as well.

El Tigre roams a flat parcel of land inside a gated community, although the homes are never a bother. Water from intertwined lakes comes into play on 13 holes, while more than 120 bunkers sprinkle in more trouble. Fortunately, a unique routing of five par 5s and five par 3s allows everybody a better chance to score.

One GolfAdvisor user, eicaza, gave El Tigre a four-star rating and wrote: "Even though there are more scenic courses in Vallarta, such as The Four Seasons at Punta Mita, this is, in my opinion, the best course."

Golfweek rated El Tigre No. 49 among its top 50 golf courses in Mexico and the Caribbean for 2014. A large, 45,000-square-foot clubhouse offers a nice restaurant and boasts the largest pro shop of the nine courses in the destination.