There’s plenty of sunshine at Terre Blanche Hotel Spa & Golf Resort – 300 days on average. It’s also delightfully set in a hidden corner of Provence on the edge of the beautiful Côte d’Azur. The grand plan was to create an Eldorado for golfers and that objective has been achieved absolutely.

A gorgeous valley setting, bordered by the Mediterranean and the salt-water Mar Menor lagoon (not to mention more than 300 days of annual sunshine), might well have been the reasons why visionary, Gregory Peters, chose this ideal site for the development of La Manga Club.

Praia D’El Rey sits in the Vale de Janelas – also known locally as the Sítio dos Belgas – and the resort takes its name from the Serra D’El-Rei (King’s Mountain Range) where the 14th century monarch Peter I of Portugal had a castle set aside as a secret place to meet his mistress Dona Inês during his reign.

Situated in the northeast corner of Spain with a Pyrenees backdrop, PGA Catalunya Resort lies close to the ancient city of Girona (home of Salvador Dalí) and the beaches of the Costa Brava. But most visiting golfers can’t be tempted away from this classy five-star property.

Argentario Golf Resort & Spa lies to the north side of the Monte Argentario promontory on the Maremma coastline, separated from the mainland by the tranquil waters of the Orbetello Lagoon. The resort might at first appear to be cut adrift from the mainland but there are actually three causeways in place to connect it to the Silver Coast of Tuscany.