Southern Spain's Costa del Sol has evolved into European golf royalty since Robert Trent Jones Sr. unveiled Real Club de Golf Sotogrande in 1964 as his first European design. His subsequent creations—Real Club de Golf Las Brisas and Real Club Valderrama—established championship standards that endure today. Valderrama earned royal status in 2014, having famously hosted the 1997 Ryder Cup.
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Southern Spain, Spain
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Southern Spain, Spain
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Southern Spain, Spain
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Southern Spain, Spain
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Most golfers will be familiar with Valderrama from TV coverage. The golf club has hosted a plethora of championships, including the legendary 1997 Ryder Cup. In 2014 the club was granted Royal status.
Sotogrande was designed by Robert Trent Jones. It was his first European course, and it is a credit that the par 72, 6,224-metre layout is still enthralling players more than 50 years after it first opened.
Real (Royal) Las Brisas was one of the first courses in Europe to use bent grass and the brave decision was quickly rewarded by being chosen as the host venue of the 1973 World Cup of Golf.
Cabell Robinson designed La Reserva and it’s a brutal 6,700 metres from the tips but with wide fairways and a hot driver it can be tamed.
Finca Cortesin is set a short distance inland from the Mediterranean and has been routed through a dramatic valley. It's one of Europe’s longest layouts and will soon become a household name.
Real Club de Golf de Sevilla opened for play in 1991 and in 2004 it was the host venue for the World Golf Championships (formerly the World Cup of Golf).
Dave Thomas and Tony Jacklin designed the Old golf course at the San Roque Club and it opened for play in 1990 at an alleged cost of one million dollars per hole.
Created in 1975 at the start of the Spanish golf course development boom, Club de Golf Aloha has remained one of Spain’s top tracks for more than forty years.
La Zagaleta was constructed in the early 1990s by American Brad Benz and he moved a fair amount of earth when establishing the rolling fairways of the Old course.
The Links course at the La Hacienda Links Golf Resort was inaugurated in 1990 then remodeled in 1999 to improve its playability by widening fairways and ironing out some of the more severe undulations on the greens.
Montecastillo is one of the most popular golf resorts in the world and it hosted the Volvo Masters Andalucia for five consecutive years beginning in 1997 when Lee Westwood won the event.
Founded as an equestrian club by a group of Army officers in the 1940s, Real Club Pineda occupies a 200-acre site on the south side of Seville, with members enjoying a wide range of sports...
The New golf course at the San Roque Club may be one of the finest new layouts in Europe and certainly one of the most beautiful.
Laid out on a 170-acre site adjacent to Las Brisas, complete with orange grove and river, Los Naranjos initially operated along with its next-door neighbour when it first opened in 1977.
One of several Robert Trent Jones designs that are strung out along the Costa del Sol, Mijas is a marvelous golf complex offering two wonderfully contrasting 18-hole courses.
Designed by Cabell B. Robinson and opened for play at the beginning of 2004, it has taken a year or two for Santana to become recognised as one of the Costa del Sol’s leading courses.
The second course at El Rompido, the North, came along in 2005 and this Álvaro Arana creation has surpassed the very high standards set by its predecessor the South course.
Atalaya Golf and Country Club is one of the more established golf facilities on the Costa del Sol and it is used as the headquarters for the European PGA.
The oldest course on the Costa Del Sol, Malaga’s fairways were first laid out sometime after the formation of Málaga Golf Club in 1926 by none other than Harry Colt.
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...
Marbella Club is one of the best mountain courses on the Costa del Sol. With some spectacular elevated tee shots, it’s a Dave Thomas special and a true Spanish gem.
The oldest course in the Marbella area, Rio Real was built on a compact site back in 1965 when Javier Arana laid out an 18-hole course on the banks of the Real River...
Torrequebreda golf course was one of the first designs of celebrated Spanish architect José Gancedo back in the mid 1970s...
Designed by Javier Arana back in the mid 1960s, Guadalmina South course is the second oldest on the south coast of Spain,
Very much a course of two halves, Guadalhorce’s front nine are laid out in a classic European format over undulating terrain while the flatter back nine are routed around water hazards in an American style.
The main 18-hole layout at Sherry Golf Jerez is a Stirling & Martin production that opened for play early in the new millennium. It has since hosted several important national match play tournaments for both male and female amateur golfers.
Opened for play in 2007 as Costa Esuri West, the 18-hole Isla Canela Links layout is situated to the north of the Spanish border town of Ayamonte, with holes routed inside a residential development on the east bank of the Guadiana River.
You have to feel some sympathy for a course like La Canada where it is completely overshadowed by near neighbours Sotogrande, Valderrama and La Reserva...
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.
One of the great, unspoiled courses in the south west of Spain, the Montenmedio Golf and Country Club sits on a wonderful site where beautiful parkland fairways weave their way over lovely rolling terrain.
The course at Arcos Golf, formerly Arcos Gardens Golf & Country Club, was constructed by American company Landmark, designers of courses like PGA West, Palm Beach Polo and the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island.
The Europa course is a fine addition to the La Cala Resort and it’s by no means a poor third. It’s more than a match for Cabell B Robinson’s previous work at the property and gives the other two courses a run for their money.
Dave Thomas laid out the 27-holes at Almenera in the late 1990s and he made a fine job of routing a series of tight fairways over hilly terrain...
Located close to the Portuguese border on the Costa de la Luz, the 36-hole complex at Golf El Rompido opened in 2003 with an initial 18-hole layout which became known as the South course when the North debuted three years later.
Located in the hills just outside Marbella, the Villa Padierna resort boasts three 18-hole layouts, the most challenging of which is the Alferini, host venue for the LET’s season-ending Andalucia Costa del Sol Open de España in 2022.
Inaugurated in 2010, the course at Valle Romano Golf & Resort is a Cabell Robinson design that quickly came to prominence through hosting a couple of Challenge Tour events. Thankfully, generously proportioned fairways make it playable for all golfers.
El Paraiso was laid out in the early 1970s by “Black Knight” Gary Player and renowned architect Ron Kirby, back in the days when they were involved in a course design partnership.
The 18-hole Flamingos layout is part of the Villa Padierna resort, a large, up-market residential and hotel estate located just outside Marbella.
There are plenty of challenges at Los Arqueros (such as water hazards, doglegged fairways, out of bounds, multi-tiered greens, uphill and downhill holes) to keep golfers concentrating...
With three 18-hole courses on a substantial 990-acre residential development, Real Novo Sancti Petri Golf Club is one of the biggest golf resorts in Spain.
Set in a hilly location, Santa Maria is a parkland track routed in an out-and-back formation with water in play at many of the holes.
Guadalmina lies right at the heart of Spain’s “Costa Del Golf” on the Costa del Sol.
Designed by Enrique Canales and Luis Recasens in 1992, Islantilla was considered good enough to host the Spanish Masters tournament in 1995...
Situated close to the fashionable resort of Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol, La Quinta Golf & Country Club opened in 1989 with an 18-hole course that has since been extended into a 27-hole golf complex...
La Cala has overtaken La Manga in southeast Spain as the largest golf resort in the country. The America and Asia layouts were two of the first projects undertaken by the American golf course architect Cabell B. Robinson...
Designed by Julián García, the course at Calanova Golf Club is located in the foothills above La Cala de Mijas, with six holes (11 to 16) laid out on the south side of the busy Autopista AP-7 coastal road.
Nestled in a wooded valley-like setting, the 6.000-metre layout of Chaparral Golf Club (the club dropped the prefix "El" in 2019) was designed by Pepe Gancedo and the course is routed in an entertaining six par three, six par four and six par five configuration.
Located close to the centre of the nation’s sherry region, Costa Ballena Ocean offers a number of leisure and sporting activities, including swimming, horse riding, windsurfing, tennis and, of course, golf.
Isla Canela covers an area of almost 4,500 acres and it lies at the mouth of the River Guadiana, where it enters the Atlantic, on the border between Andalusian Spain and the Portuguese Algarve.
With a landscape similar to that on the hilly America course, there are many pleasant elevation changes over the modest 6,500-yard length of La Cala's Asia course.
Belgian golf course architect Paul Rolin designed the 18-hole layout at Benalup Golf and Country Club in 2001 and its fairways complement the other sporting facilities at the club...
The main features of the Los Olivos course are, as its name suggests, the olive groves that line many of the fairways and green complexes.
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.
The Heathland layout at La Hacienda Links Golf Resort plays second fiddle to the recently renovated Links course but this inland 18-hole Dave Thomas-designed track is the perfect complement to its older sibling on the clifftops.
One of only a handful of Gary Player golf course designs in Western Europe, Club Zaudin Golf burst onto the Spanish golf scene in the early 1990s.
Laid out on a difficult, hilly site just outside the fashionable resort, the Marbella Golf Country Club course routing makes the very best use of the available landscape...
Owned and operated by the Azata Group, a major Spanish real estate company, the Stirling & Martin-designed course at Azata Golf was the first 18-hole course to open in ten years on the Costa del Sol when it debuted outside Estepona in 2021.
Measuring just less than 5,600 yards, Cabopino is a short, tight course laid out on hilly terrain between Marbella and Fuengirola.
Santa Clara Golf Marbella is where your golf holiday truly comes alive. A hidden gem in the heart of the Costa del Sol, just minutes from Marbella and Málaga Airport, it combines effortless access with a setting that instantly feels special — relaxed, scenic, and unmistakably Mediterranean.
Situated in the mountains between Mijas and Coín, the spectacular 18 holes at Alhaurin offer some of the most challenging golf to be found anywhere on the Costa del Sol.
