Alicante Golf

Designed by Seve Ballesteros and opened for play in the late 1990s, the course at Alicante Golf is situated in Playa de San Juan, close to Alicante city centre, and it features an S-shaped lake (Seve’s initial) beside the 9th green.

Holes weave their way around a densely populated residential area with housing on both sides of the fairway on most holes. The layout is configured with six par threes, six par fours and six par fives and the same par is only played consecutively on one occasion, at the 9th and 10th holes.

Highlight holes on theoutward nine include the par four 2nd and par three 3rd (routed around the same lake), then the par five 4th which doglegs slightly right towards a very unusual green that’s surrounded on three sides by a narrow, horseshoe-shaped water channel.

On the inward half, only the 11th and 15th are devoid of aquatic challenge. Intimidating lakes protect the front and right of the green at both the par three 12th and 17th, while the fairway on the par five 18th features water to the left and housing to the right from tee to green.