Designed by Scottish architect Tom Simpson, famous for his golfing layouts at Turnberry and Muirfield, the Costa’s oldest course was opened by the Spanish royal family in 1925. The course is part links with seawater lagoons, and part parkland with the fairways forming avenues between…

NORTE - Guadalmina Norte is considered less difficult than Guadalmina’s South course, although it covers more terrain, is more undulating, contains more trees and has more water hazards. The Guadalmina River bisects the course from north to south - it comes into play at the…

Trent Jones and opened in 1968, it has hosted the World Cup on two occasions, the Spanish Open three times and the Mediterranean Open. For club golfers and professionals alike it represents one of the ultimate challenges. Playing here is a major event for any…

The long-awaited Santa Clara opened for play in the early summer of 2001. For months motorists had stared longingly at its green expanses as they sped past on the N-340 just outside Marbella opposite the Los Monteros hotel. But Enrique Canales, the course designer, and…

Santa María Golf & Country Club”, as the name suggests, is far more than a Golf Club. Based around an 18th century “cortijo” which currently forms the Club House, the grounds boast stunning gardens and fine leisure facilities including tennis, swimming and lawn bowling. “Santa…

Santana Golf is a spectacular course, both for its design (by Cabell B. Robinson) and its location – in an old avocado farm that has retained all its former “flavour”. Located in Mijas’s “Golf Valley”, the layout is flat, very well formed, with wide fairways,…