Host venue for three editions of the LET’s Madrid Ladies Masters starting in 2007, the José María Olazábal-designed course at Club de Golf Retamares has also staged a couple of Challenge Tour events on the men’s professional circuit.
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Host venue for three editions of the LET’s Madrid Ladies Masters starting in 2007, the José María Olazábal-designed course at Club de Golf Retamares has also staged a couple of Challenge Tour events on the men’s professional circuit.
Retamares
Club de Golf Retamares was founded in 1993, with an 18-hole layout designed by José María Olazábal. Starting in 2007, the course staged three consecutive editions of the Madrid Ladies Masters on the LET circuit to demonstrate its tournament-hosting credentials.
Located around 45 kilometres northwest of Madrid city centre, the course at Retamares was designed by José María Olazábal and unveiled in 1993, hosting a few LET events early in the new millennium.
Fairways are laid out in hilly terrain around several big irrigation ponds, with two sets of nine holes returning to the clubhouse.
Highlights on the front nine include the first of the par three holes at the 141-metre 2nd, along with back-to-back downhill par fours at #5 and #6 in the southeast corner of the property.
On the inward half, the 411-metre 14th is a tough par four (rated stroke index 3 from the back tees) which doglegs left and downhill with water to the right of the fairway.
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