Golf XP Cabo did not begin in a boardroom or with a business plan. It began
on a trip to Los Cabos in 2014, when a group of friends and I started what would become an annual
golf tradition. That first year was simple: accommodation and golf. But year after year, the
experience grew. We added private villas, stocked before arrival. A local chef preparing dinner in
the residence, which we came to call La Cena del Capitán, a tradition so central to the trip that by
2024 I was dressing up as El Capitán myself. Curated wine selections. Private transportation.
Welcome kits. By 2019, I realized we had built something that other groups would love to experience,
and that no one in the market was offering it the way we lived it.
My background is not in hospitality. I studied Chemical Engineering, earned a Master's
in Computing Sciences, and spent years in IT before joining my family's business. When that chapter
closed, I had the freedom to pursue what had quietly become a passion: curating golf experiences in
a place I had visited for over twenty years. What I did bring from every stage of my career was a
natural drive toward people. I love meeting them, anticipating what they need before they ask,
watching them enjoy something I helped create, and finding ways to make them feel genuinely special.
Those two decades of visits to Baja gave me something else no business plan could: deep, personal
relationships with the people who make this region's hospitality world run. Course directors, resort
managers, chefs, guides. These are not vendor contacts. They are friendships built over years, and
they are the foundation of everything Golf XP Cabo delivers.
I did not grow up playing golf. I picked up the game on that first trip to Cabo and,
like most of us, I am still working on it. But that is part of what I love about this sport. It is a
continuous challenge, a reason to be outdoors, and above all, a way to connect with people and
places that matter. When my wife and I decided to move to Los Cabos full time, it was because we
both understood that running a destination company from a distance was not an option. Baja had
always felt like a second home. Now it simply is. And that presence, being here every day, playing
these courses, eating at these restaurants, knowing the hidden corners, is what allows us to deliver
experiences that feel personal, because they are.
Manu
Founder & Managing Director
