Staying at the Westin, looking to play a round, here are the options:

Riviera Cancun - 2pm for $120/person. This is 5 minutes from our hotel back toward the airport.

Hilton golf course - 2pm for $125/person. This is probably 5 min north or our hotel.

Pok ta Pok 2:06pm for $115/person. This is at the north end of the hotel zone, so the farthest from us but still only probably 15-20 min.

Any experiences or recommendations?

Hilton is no more. The property will be taken over by Iberostar.

Saw that when I was checking the courses out on TA.

I think we're going to play the Riviera. All the talk about crocodiles being an immovable obstacle on the Iberostar/Hilton course on TA freaked my wife a bit...

Think of all the bragging you can do around your friends when you tell them how you golfed in the tropics while dodging crocs.

FWIW, we ended up playing the Riviera course. It was $120 pp, and that after-2pm rate included all you can eat and drink at the clubhouse and all you can eat and drink from the course cart.

The course was in really great shape with lush fairways that added on-the-ground distance to every shot. It's a challenging course from the white tees if you can't hit a fairly long, fairly straight drive, as about 1/3 of the holes had water or junk for the first 100 or so yards in front of the white and blue tee box.

There were only 2 parties (us and one other) on the entire course when we played on Saturday so we had a really fast round (just under 4 hours) and had a the cart guy basically stalking us all afternoon.

Plus it was fun to watch the planes taking off from CUN, then looking at the course when we took off the next day!

I shot a 47 on the front 9, but a 52 on the back 9 (started drinking at the turn! ).

That's a good round for me on such a challenging course! ^

I would happily play it again...in fact I wish I was playing there right now!