About Total Golf Construction MX Builders and agronomists, on site from day one.
A Dominican company with legal presence in Mexico, led by two founders who learned the trade on championship courses.
Experience · Quality · Efficiency · Assurance
Learned on the crew, proven on championship ground.
Total Golf Construction MX is a consortium that provides integrated solutions for golf courses, sports facilities, real estate developments and landscaping. We are a Dominican company with legal presence in Mexico, operating under the permits of both countries.
Our founders learned the trade on the ground. Esteban Salas started on a construction crew in 1996 and went on to build courses for Jack Nicklaus and Rees Jones. Juan Jesús Solís-Suchil, from a family that builds courses in Mexico and the Caribbean, managed the construction of El Camaleón and Corales.
Today we manage every aspect of building and maintaining golf courses and sports fields for soccer, baseball, polo and tennis. Our goal is a relationship that runs from project management, including financial management when needed, through to facility maintenance.
“To build the best works, using all our resources without sacrificing quality, and to maintain courses, fields and landscapes at the lowest cost, maximizing returns and relieving our clients of risk.”
The people who run the work.
Two co-founders, one on the machines and one on the turf, with three decades on championship sites in the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico.
Born in Chiapas, Mexico · raised in the United StatesEsteban Salas Díaz
Esteban started out on the construction crew and rose quickly, thanks to his eye for imperfections and a natural talent for shaping with heavy equipment. His AutoCAD skills then took him into irrigation and drainage design and construction.
He went on to work as superintendent and project manager for companies such as Weitz Golf, building a long list of courses on the East Coast and in South Florida. His recent work includes the renovation of Playa Grande under Rees Jones and the most emblematic project of his career: Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo.
Career highlights
- Teeth of the Dog renovation, Casa de Campo
- Playa Grande renovation, Rees Jones
- Punta Espada, Jack Nicklaus
- La Gorce & Indian Creek renovations, Miami
Expertise
- Golf course shaping
- Project management
- HDPE irrigation & ADS drainage
- Advanced AutoCAD
Born and raised in Los Cabos, MexicoJuan Jesús Solís-Suchil
Juan Jesús grew up in Los Cabos, one of the fastest-growing golf regions in the world, in a family that builds golf courses in Mexico and the Caribbean. An economist from UNAM and a GCSAA-trained golf course superintendent, he looks at every project from both sides: the business and the turf.
He managed the construction of El Camaleón at Mayakoba for Greg Norman, Corales at Punta Cana Resort & Club for Tom Fazio and Hard Rock Golf Club at Cana Bay for Jack Nicklaus, then led the maintenance and renovation of Santo Domingo Country Club.
Career highlights
- Corales Golf Club, Tom Fazio · PGA TOUR venue
- El Camaleón, Mayakoba · Greg Norman
- Hard Rock Golf Club at Cana Bay · Nicklaus Design
- Santo Domingo Country Club renovation
Expertise
- Agronomy & grow-in
- Business management
- Negotiation
- Project development
Thirty years, one yard at a time.
From a foreman’s job in Ohio to Teeth of the Dog and the World Cup.
On the crew
Esteban Salas starts in golf construction as a foreman with Quality Golf in Ohio, renovating greens, bunkers and tees.
Building for Nicklaus
As superintendent and shaper with Weitz Golf International, Esteban builds courses across the East Coast and South Florida, many of them Jack Nicklaus designs.
Into the Caribbean
Juan Jesús Solís-Suchil manages construction of El Camaleón at Mayakoba, then Corales at Punta Cana Resort & Club and Hard Rock Golf Club at Cana Bay.
Total Golf at work
Total Golf Construction takes on maintenance of Santo Domingo Country Club, which it runs until 2017 and renovates in 2016–2017.
A FIFA World Cup
We supervise the stadiums and maintain the main pitch at Félix Sánchez for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Dominican Republic 2024.
Teeth of the Dog to the World Cup
Teeth of the Dog renovated, 2026 World Cup fields in Monterrey and Puebla, and new work underway in the Dominican Republic and Barbados.
Four values, on every site.
Experience, quality, efficiency and assurance: the values in our mission statement, and the reason clients hand us their most demanding sites.
Experience
Thirty years on championship sites in the United States, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, on courses by Dye, Nicklaus, Fazio and Norman.
Quality
Every course to USGA standards. We approve only top-quality work and materials, and reject anything that doesn’t comply until it is corrected.
Efficiency
We use our clients’ resources efficiently: on budget, on schedule, with expenses controlled and progress reported regularly.
Assurance
From financial management to outsourced maintenance, we take on the civil, labor and tax risk so the owner doesn’t carry it.
Thirty years, measured in finished ground.
Years in golf course construction, since 1996
Golf courses built, renovated or maintained
PGA TOUR event venues on our record
FIFA World Cups supported, 2024 and 2026
Hand us your most demanding site. We’ll be on it.
From the first survey to grow-in, you work directly with the founders who built our record. Let’s talk about your project.