The complex covers 122 hectares, and has been designed and built with the utmost attention to detail, especially as regards respecting the environment and ensuring efficient use of available energy resources. Furthermore, it was the chosen site of prominent professional golfers, such as “Seve” Ballesteros, to live and play on this impressive 18-hole golf course designed by Cabell B. Robinson.
The complex is also equipped with a Club House, a golf academy with bilingual professionals a specialist shop, cafeteria. There is also very well-kept with green spaces.
Valle Romano Golf. Valle Romano Golf course combines features that make it unique in terms of design, location and as a model of sustainability. It not only complies with the regulations in force governing environmental matters, but priority has also been given in the course of its construction to preserving as much surface area of vegetation as possible, so that it may serve as a refuge for native flora and fauna.
This is an exceptional 18-hole course, built in accordance with the most stringent standards of quality as set out by the United States Golf Association of America, with a \"Tifsport\" lawn certified by the University of Georgia, and equipped with a very sophisticated watering system that uses state-of-the-art technology.
The Valle Romano golf course is the brainchild of Cabell B. Robinson, one of the most renowned designers of golf courses in the world. Among the projects he has carried out are numerous prestigious golf courses in Spain, France, Morocco, Switzerland, Portugal, Cyprus and Italy.
This course is ready to enter the European Circuit, with fairways designed to suit players of all levels and large greens. Robinson has designed a course that is located in the least abrupt part of the estate, which ranges from level 1 16 to 50.
One of the aims behind this course is that it should be able to be enjoyed by all types of player, ranging from those with the lowest handicaps to those with the highest. To this end, an average 5 tee platforms per hole and some large greens have been built (the latter with an average surface area of 500 square metres, although they go up to 1,000 square metres). The greens, which have gentle yet very lengthy slopes with a great number of flag positions, ensure that each hole on the course can turn out to be either easy or extremely difficult.
The fact that this is a course suited to all types of player, together with the excellent level of maintenance, good facilities, an outstanding location (the sea can be seen from every hole) and a major commitment on the part of all the staff who
form part of the project, ensures that it meets all the requirements for organizing any type of competition.
As affirmed Ildefonso Esquivel, director of Valle Romano Golf \"the customer who comes repeats again and again, because leaves satisfied and likes the course\".
THIS IS THE ROUND
The Valle Romano Golf, is a pampered course in terms of its design with its own personality, while at the same time remaining natural. A good example of this personality is that the 18 holes constitute a tribute to our champions, men and women golfers who have written many chapters in the history of Spanish golf with their triumphs. Their names will always be recalled at Valle Romano.
Hole 1, Marcelino Morcillo
Par 5. 533 mts
We start with a hole with a dog-leg on the left.
The fairway descends to the left and is protected by bunkers.
A shot over the bunkers is recommended.
The hole ends on a gentle fairway and a large green to facilitate the third shot.
Hole 2, José Mari Olazábal
Par 3. 201 mts
Visually easy. Essential not to miss on the left. Green defended by two bunkers and by a slight piano.
Hole 3, Ramón Sota
Par 4. 408 mts
A demanding par 4 in which a good tee-shot is essential. The second shot needs to be very accurate to ensure the green is reached. The green itself is wide and without any difficulty of note.
Hole 4, Ángel de Miguel
Par 4. 278 mts
A recovery hole in which the second shot needs to be accurate, given that the green is nearly 1,000 m². It will be a pleasure to play with the feeling of being in the sea.
Hole 5, Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Play your shot in such a way as to ensure that it doesn´t end up in the water. The shot onto the green will give you the pleasure of flying over the pretty lake that protects it. Be accurate because the green is not large.
Hole 6, Diego Borrego
Par 4. 315 mts
A hole with a slight dog-leg to the left, in which it is essential to play a good tee-shot. It is not a long hole, but is defended by a small green protected by two well-positioned bunkers.
Hole 7, Ángel Gallardo
Par 3. 226 mts
A par 3 that demands a perfect shot. It is advisable to lean to the left side of the green. The green covers a wide area for fine-tuning the shot.
Hole 8, Valentín Barrios
Par 5. 510 mts
A rigorous par 5 with the Club House as a backcloth. It requires a good tee-shot. A long hole, but one which allows a second comfortable shot onto the green which should present no major difficulty.
Hole 9, Severiano Ballesteros
Par 3. 224 mts
A great par 3 that compels us to play to the left side of the green. Long and demanding, it requires the utmost concentration.
Hole10, Álvaro Quirós
Par 5. 540 mts
A hole you will not forgot owing to its beauty and design. Play a strong tee-shot and pay attention to the second shot and the shot onto the green, which is very small.
Hole 11, Raquel Carriedo
Par 3. 166 mts
A fine shot onto the green, where it is essential not to veer to the left. A large green which allows you to play two comfortable putts.
Hole12, Sebastián de Miguel
Par 4. 344 mts
A panoramic tee-off, from where it is not necessary to hit the ball hard, but straight. Unforgettable shot onto the green with the beauty of a lake that punishes any miss towards the left.
Hole 13, Pepín Rivero
Par 3. 177 mts
A beautiful par 3 among trees and bunkers. Be decisive when playing the shot and lean to the left of the green.
Hole 14, Miguel Ángel Martín
Par 4. 379 mts
Hit firmly and enjoy this splendid par 4. Try to avoid the right side of the fairway and, above all, don´t go beyond the green.
Hoyo 15, Marta Figueras-Dotti
Par 4. 391 metros
There is space to lean towards the right side of the fairway, although you can´t see it from the tee. Be accurate with the shot onto the green and avoid the right side.
Hole 16, Manolo Piñero
Par 5. 504 mts
A hole to be immortalized owing to its design, and one to enjoy. Tee off while leaning to the left and take care with your second shot. Transversal green flanked by two bunkers to defend it.
Hole 17, José María Cañizares
Par 4. 323 mts
The shot in the middle of the fairway is not perfect. There are trees that protect the hole. Hit comfortably onto the green and enjoy the view.
Hole 18, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño
Par 4. 369 mts
To end, a demanding par 4, use all your remaining strength, play your drive shot and note the beauty of the hole. Be demanding with the second shot and try to avoid the green bunkers. Large green.
GOLF SCHOOL
The Valle Romano Golf School offers a great variety of programmes to suit the needs both of amateurs and beginners, and applies the finest teaching programmes and techniques available in the world of golf.
The pro Gabriel Cañizares is, since September 2011, the new Technical Manager at the Valle Romano Golf School. Cañizares supervise and act in an advisory capacity on the golf methodology and techniques being taught to students.
The wide range of options available include intensive one-week courses, specific putting and short game courses, courses for VIPs, a clinic and private classes, among others. Special attention is paid to younger pupils, with monthly courses on Saturdays or intensive summer courses.
The entire practice area is floodlit, with both covered and grass bays.
“In Valle Romano Golf the work is done every day with effort so the course becomes an international benchmark, that’s our goal” says Gabriel Cañizares.
EQUIPMENT
Valle Romano Golf has incorporated new services in line with the quality and efficiency that characterize this golf course in Estepona. On the one hand, a GPS system has been fitted on 40 buggies as a tool to help both operative control of the course itself and for players who are using these vehicles. On the other hand, a wooden booth has been placed on the green at hole 8 with an interphone that has a direct line to the restaurant, enabling a snack to be requested without interrupting play.
These new services constitute a further step in terms of the level of quality and added value offered by Valle Romano to its golf players, enabling the course to further confirm its status as a top reference point on the Costa del Sol. The new facilities reinforce the facilities already available at the course, which boast – among other things – full state-of-the-art medical facilities including an ambulance buggy and a semi-automatic desfibrillator.
Ildefonso Esquivel, the course manager, says that the GPS “have focused on two aspects: on the one hand, this constitutes another improvement in terms of the service we are offering over our competitors and, on the other, provides us with very specific operative control on a day-to-day basis.
Golf players at Valle Romano can allow themselves a culinary break without losing even a minute of play. A wooden booth with an interphone has been fitted on the green of the 8th hole for such purpose with a direct line to the restaurant. There is a menu in this booth that contains sandwiches, various sweet and savoury appetizers, soft drinks and energy drinks that players can order as they pass through this part of the course. They will receive what they have ordered quickly and comfortably on the green of the 9th hole, which enables the 18 holes on the course to be completed and players’ strength to be regained by enjoying an excellent snack prepared by staff from the Club House restaurant, without the need to lose even a minute of play.
Valle Romano Golf
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