Northern Spain
All told, in an area of around 70,000 km², there are almost 70 golf facilities available to a population of around seven million people, comprising two 27-hole complexes (at Laukariz Country Club and Real Golf de Pedreña), thirty-two 18-hole layouts, twenty 9-hole courses and fifteen others (such as par three 9-hole tracks). We don’t feature too many 9-hole layouts in our listings but there’s an ever-growing trend in the modern era to recognise these courses and we’ve added quite a few more in recent times, including the course at Real Golf Club de Zarauz in Gipuzkoa, which entered our Spanish Top 100 in 2020. The course at Real Sociedad Golf de Neguri near Bilbao is not only the leading layout in our North region, it's also highly ranked in both our Spanish and Continental Europe Top 100 charts. Designed by renowned Spanish architect Javier Arana in the late 1950s, the course has hosted many important national amateur championships, though only one major professional event, the 1968 Spanish Open, has ever been held here.
Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri
Northern Spain, Spain
Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri
Neguri, or Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri to give the club its full title, was originally founded way back in 1911 but today’s course was laid out in 1961 and it’s located in Getxo, a few kilometres north west of Bilbao.
Real Pedrena
Northern Spain, Spain
Real Pedrena
Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros learnt his golf here at Real Golf de Pedrena, a Harry Colt classical layout.
Real La Coruña - La Zapateira
Northern Spain, Spain
Real La Coruña - La Zapateira
Originally designed by Philip Mackenzie Ross in the early 1960s, Real Club de Golf de La Coruña is located in the mountains of La Zapateira. Rather unusually the opening hole “The Pyramid” is a short par three.
Real Castiello
Northern Spain, Spain
Real Castiello
Founded in 1958, Real Club de Golf de Castiello started out with a 9-hole course before this layout was doubled in size in the early 1980s. The holes were then modified and improved before club members acquired the property in 2004.
Izki (Urturi)
Northern Spain, Spain
Izki (Urturi)
Seve Ballesteros was the architect behind this off-the-beaten-track course back in the early 1990s when he ventured deep into the Basque interior to lay out what many consider to be one of his better designs.
Real San Sebastian Basozabal
Northern Spain, Spain
Real San Sebastian Basozabal
Designed by José María Olazábal, the course at Real Nuevo Club de Golf San Sebastian Basozabal was constructed in two phases, with a couple of lakes now coming into play (between holes 3 and 9 then holes 13 and 15) on both nines.
Real La Toja
Northern Spain, Spain
Real La Toja
First opened for play in the late 1960s, the 9-hole course at Real Club de Golf La Toja occupies a beautiful location within a little island in the Ría de Arousa saline estuary on the rugged Galician coastline.
Real Zarauz
Northern Spain, Spain
Real Zarauz
The 9-hole course at Real Golf Club de Zarauz was inaugurated in 1916 with the visit of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Maria Cristina on 31st July of that year, making it the fourth oldest golfing layout in the country.
