Amendoeira (O'Connor) - Algarve - Portugal

Often seen as the poor companion to the Faldo. Have played this course over 20 times over the last 10 years. Certainly compared to the Faldo it is flat and less inspiring but it is always in great condition and compliments the Faldo. The course has grown on me over the years and less busy than other courses in Vilamoura. Set up at this resort is good and improved catering now supplements the accommodation. Superior Villas are outstanding and for groups this resort is superb. The O'Connor can punish those who push shots but all standards can be catered with the various different tee boxes.

Played with a society and we found it very playable and great fun. The part where you play alongside and under a flyover is a bit strange, but other than that we really enjoyed it, particularly the uphill 9th and 18ths that finish under the very comfortable terrace.

Excellent staff, and much more fun than the Faldo.

This is the second course at the Amendoeirra resort and a little bit less challenging than the Faldo course, but also some really nice holes with a lot of water in play. Like the Faldo course also really interesting layout and makes fun to play. Really nice finishing hole with the clubhouse sitting above the green.

much more holiday course than the Faldo track on site but still a great layout and in excellent condition--the odd weak hole here and there , but some great others make it a treat to play--always in great nick and good speed on the greens

There are some nice holes, but there is no variation on the course. The greens were slow where we expected more. We played this two days ago and we are struggling to remember the course. Having played a lot of courses in the Algarve this is not a course I would go back to. However I like traditional courses and this being a manufatured course for me to rank this highly it has to be good. If you like manufactured courses then go for it.

Played this course several times , it's by far the best of the Oceanico courses . Last played late October 2012 on a mixed day of sunshine followed by torrential rain - amazingly the greens never became unplayable and were still true .Love the first hole , huge landing area with water hazards on all four sides - nice straight drive rewards with a nice approach to this tricky Par 5Expensive but worth it if you can get a deal .

Played this late May, and not particularly well at that... but still enjoyed the experience. It had great greens, excellent fairways, very good par threes and fives, and enough water and other tricks to make you put on your thinking cap before playing any shot. Only two let downs. The 10th hole is a shocker, a truly horrible 90 degree dogleg left where it is impossible to work out what to do until it is too late. Also, the bunkers could do with more sand. But these are small gripes, more than levelled out by the rest of the experience. Worryingly for Oceanico, we were a group of 11 and more or less had the course to ourselves. As the clubhouse is shared with Faldo and we had the full run of it too, it would suggest that maybe less than 50 people played these two courses on a perfect Sunday in May. There's something not very right there. But the place is a visual treat and every last stone has been turned to get it like that. On the whole O'Connor was well worth travelling over from Vilamoura.

Very good course. Enjoyable with generous fairways in good condition. We'll be back next year as it suited a mixture of handicaps.

Good golf course in good condition, but if you be there, try the faldo course, this is by far the better one!