Club de Campo La Zagaleta boasts two very different 18-hole layouts: the original early 1990s La Zagaleta course (now called the Old) and the more recent Los Barancos course (now named the New) which Steve Marnock and Jonathan Gaunt co-designed.
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Club de Campo La Zagaleta boasts two very different 18-hole layouts: the original early 1990s La Zagaleta course (now called the Old) and the more recent Los Barancos course (now named the New) which Steve Marnock and Jonathan Gaunt co-designed.
La Zagaleta Country Club (New)
Club de Campo La Zagaleta boasts two very different 18-hole layouts: the original early 1990s La Zagaleta course (now called the Old) and the more recent Los Barancos course (now named the New) which Steve Marnock and Jonathan Gaunt co-designed.
Opened for play in 2005, the New course is nothing short of a marvel in golf course engineering as holes rise and fall across mountain ledges, escarpments and gorges – somehow managing to come together to form a cohesive 18-hole layout.
The course extends to 5,391 metres, playing to a par of 70 (36 out then 34 in), with four short par fours and six par threes on the scorecard. It’s as unconventional as it gets, but golfers will have more fun playing here than at most of the top tracks further along the coast.
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