South East Spain

South East Spain, Spain

Javier Arana designed El Saler and it opened for play in 1968 to a rapturous standing ovation. In fact, shortly afterwards, it was voted the No.1 golf course in Continental Europe.

South East Spain, Spain

The fairways at Las Colinas Golf & Country Club are generally wide and forgiving and they’ve been laid out in two returning nines that twist out and back along the floor of a valley...

South East Spain, Spain

The South course at La Manga Club was where the Spanish Open was held during the 70s. It’s a spacious and long layout set on fairly flat terrain. Bring your driver.

South East Spain, Spain

The West course at La Manga Club is totally different to the other two layouts. Gone are the palms and in come the pines, doglegs and tight, tricky holes.

South East Spain, Spain

Located between Balsicas and Roldán, the golf course at Saurines de la Torre Golf is one of six Jack Nicklaus-designed courses operating within a forty-kilometre radius in the Murcia region.

South East Spain, Spain

El Bosque is one of several courses designed by Robert Trent Jones during his most prolific spell in Spain from the mid-60s to mid-70s.

South East Spain, Spain

Located less than a 15-minute drive inland from San Juan de Los Terreros, the most easterly coastal village in Andalusia, the desert-style course at Aguilón Golf occupies a spectacular site in the shadow of the Aguilan Mountains.

South East Spain, Spain

The Golden Bear’s Signature course at Alhama is the flagship venue in a portfolio that comprises Mar Menor, La Torre, Saurines, El Valle and Hacienda Riquelme.

South East Spain, Spain

With fairways routed round a substantial residential development, the course at Hacienda Riquelme is a new millennium Nicklaus Design layout that features a handful of lakes, a multitude of sand bunkers and plenty of multi-tiered greens.

South East Spain, Spain

Laid out within a property that once functioned as an apple and pear orchard, the course at Lo Romero Golf is an exciting new millennium design which culminates in a par four hole (rated stroke index 1) that’s played to an island green.

South East Spain, Spain

With holes set around a substantial residential development, the El Valle Golf Resort course is a new millennium layout from Nicklaus Design with desert-style plantings suggesting more of an Arizona environment than Iberia.

South East Spain, Spain

The 18-hole layout at the Club de Campo del Mediterráneo embodies all that is good about parkland Spanish golf.

South East Spain, Spain

Opened for play in 2002, the course at La Finca is a Pepe Gancedo layout of distinction. Gancedo was dubbed “the Picasso of golf” by golf journalist Peter Dobereiner...

South East Spain, Spain

Designed in 1991 by the late José "Pepe" Gancedo, former Spanish amateur champion, Las Ramblas is certainly a layout that will test the resolve of even the most proficient golfers.

South East Spain, Spain

The North course at La Manga Club is the more approachable of the three resort courses. Palm-lined, slightly hilly and well-bunkered, it’s where to make a decent score.

South East Spain, Spain

Host to the 1980 Spanish Open which was won by Irishman Eddie Polland, Club de Golf Escorpion is a 27-hole golf facility comprising three 9-hole circuits. Ron Kirby designed the original two loops, named Lagos and Masia, in 1975, with Alfonso Vidaor adding the Neuvos loop 25 years later.

South East Spain, Spain

Fashioned by the Moon Masters design company, the golf course at La Galiana is located to the south of Valencia and is set in a stunning secluded valley, flanked on both sides by perfectly preserved Mediterranean forest.

South East Spain, Spain

The gently undulating terrain together with the original orchards and groves provide Hacienda del Álamo with many opportunities for enjoyable and interesting golf...

South East Spain, Spain

One of two 18-hole Nicklaus Design layouts at the Melia Villiatana Golf Club outside Benidorm, the Levante course is both wide and long, with holes routed around three lakes and more than a hundred sand traps in play.

South East Spain, Spain

The golf course at Villamartin has been cleverly routed over the natural terrain, which is pleasantly undulating, by California-based architect Robert Putman.

South East Spain, Spain

The Indiana course at Desert Springs is where the first full-blown Arizona/California desert themed layout – described by some as “a Wild West resort course” – first collided with the continent of Europe...

South East Spain

Designed by José María Olazábal, the Llebeig and Gregal nines combine to form the 18-hole layout of first choice at the 27-hole La Sella Golf complex which is located halfway between Alicante and Valencia.

South East Spain, Spain

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.

South East Spain, Spain

Opened in May 2010 and designed by Blake Stirling and Marco Martin, the layout at Font del Llop Golf Resort has the potential to become the finest golf course in the Alicante region.

South East Spain, Spain

Set in the foothills to the north of the city of Murcia, the 18-hole layout at Club de Golf Altorreal is a mid-1990s Dave Thomas design which is routed around a substantial residential development, with water coming into play occasionally.

South East Spain, Spain

The course at the Real Club de Golf Campoamor Resort was inaugurated in 1988 by H.R.H. Don Juan de Borbón, Count of Barcelona. Since then, a tournament bearing his name is played for on an annual basis every summer.

South East Spain, Spain

Opened in 2006 and fashioned by Dave Thomas across relatively flat terrain featuring numerous lakes, Roda Golf & Beach Resort is set to become a challenging alternative to La Manga.

South East Spain, Spain

Laid out inside a large residential development to the north of Alicante, the course at Club de Golf Bonalba is a Ramón Espinosa design where holes are set round quite a few water hazards, with more hilly terrain found on the inward half.

South East Spain, Spain

Occupying a rather constricted 110-acre property close to Alicante airport, the course at El Plantío Golf Resort has operated since 1993. Water hazards come into play from time to time, most notably on the par fours at the 10th and 17th.

South East Spain, Spain

The Seve Ballesteros-designed course at Oliva Nova Golf Club on the Costa Blanca is where water comes into play on no fewer than fifteen holes. Bring an extra sleeve of balls if your game is wayward.

South East Spain, Spain

Opened for play in 2002, the course at Club de Golf Las Pinaillas is set out on the floodplain of the meandering Rio Júcar, to the north of Albacete, where Seve Ballesteros fashioned the fairways on the south bank of the river.

South East Spain, Spain

The course at the Mar Menor Golf Resort is rather unusual in that Dave Thomas laid out the front nine and Nickalus Design fashioned the backside. It is therefore genuinely a tale of two halves.

South East Spain, Spain

Valle del Este’s desert undulations have been used to great effect by architect José Canales with most tee boxes played from an elevated position where the landing area for the tee shot is wide and in full view...

South East Spain, Spain

In the early years of the new millennium, Polaris World created a number of residential golf developments in the southeast of Spain, with the course at La Torre Golf Resort the second of these projects completed by Nicklaus Design.

South East Spain, Spain

Opened for play in 1999, the course at Club de Golf Alenda is a Roland Favrat design which is set around a residential development outside Alicante, featuring all the usual sand and water hazards expected on a resort layout.