Monkey see, monkey do: Play here first at Sandy Lane.

Today starts the second round of the Barbados World Cup, the Olympics-like event that’s part of the four-tournament World Golf Championships series, but, in our opinion, it’s being played on the wrong course.

The two-man teams from 24 countries (Steward Cink/J.J. Henry for the United States; Mike Weir/Jim Rutledge for Canada) are battling it out on Sandy Lane resort’s Country Club course, which, in 2001, got nine new and nine updated holes by Tom Fazio, but by far, the better course to play there is The Green Monkey…if you can get a tee time. Starts are limited to a one-hour interval between 8:30 and 9:00 am.

While the Country Club course is appealing (watch for holes 11 through 16 on TV), The Green Monkey is Fazio’s technically and aesthetically superlative design, where every hole either descends into a stunning limestone quarry or reveals views of the Caribbean Sea.

The short par fours are strategically captivating, the par threes are brilliant, and even in the fairways you rarely play from level lies. Fazio’s trademark use of copious sand is also present, perhaps nowhere more memorable than on the 16th hole, where a grass cutout of a monkey acts as an island in an otherwise enormous bunker.

Most resorts use tournament exposure to show off their crown jewel, but given what must be unheard of amounts of time, money and labor invested into keeping The Green Money so impeccably maintained — forget finding a divot or even a ball mark — it’s likely Sandy Lane didn’t want it marred by tournament traffic.

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