Tee Times Golf Holidays Nominated for Europe’s Best Golf Tour Operator 2026

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Tee Times Golf Holidays has once again been nominated for the prestigious Europe’s Best Golf Tour Operator 2026 award at the World Golf Awards, one of the most respected and recognised accolades in the international golf tourism industry.

A Record of Recognition

This nomination marks another important milestone in a journey that has seen Tee Times establish itself as one of the leading names in golf travel. Over the years, the company has received multiple World Golf Awards distinctions, including Portugal’s Best Inbound Golf Tour Operator, Portugal’s Best Outbound Golf Tour Operator, and Europe’s Best Golf Tour Operator, reflecting its long-standing commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.

From Vilamoura to the Wider World

Founded in Vilamoura in 1993, Tee Times Golf Holidays has grown alongside the Algarve’s rise as one of Europe’s premier golf destinations. What began as a small local business has evolved into an internationally recognised golf tour operator, helping thousands of golfers enjoy unforgettable golf experiences every year.

Portugal, Spain and Beyond

Today, Tee Times offers one of the most comprehensive golf holiday portfolios in the market, with programmes available throughout Portugal and Spain, from the Algarve, Lisbon and Porto to the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Madrid, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. In addition, the company has expanded its offering to include a selection of renowned international golf destinations, giving clients access to some of the finest golf courses and resorts around the world.

Built on Partnership and Trust

Over more than three decades, Tee Times has built strong relationships with golf courses, hotels and tourism partners, earning a reputation for expertise, reliability and exceptional service. The company currently handles around 120,000 rounds of golf annually, a reflection of both the scale of its operation and the trust placed in it by golfers worldwide.

The nomination for Europe’s Best Golf Tour Operator 2026 is a recognition not only of the work and dedication of the Tee Times team, but also of the confidence shown by the thousands of clients who choose the company to organise their golf holidays year after year.

How to Cast Your Vote

Voting for the World Golf Awards 2026 is now open and is available to both industry professionals and golf travellers.

If you have travelled with Tee Times Golf Holidays, booked a golf holiday through our team, or simply followed our journey over the years, we would be delighted to receive your support.

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Every vote is a recognition of more than 30 years of dedication to golf tourism, the trust of our clients, and the strong partnerships we have built along the way. Your support can help us continue to strengthen Tee Times Golf Holidays’ position among Europe’s leading golf tour operators.

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Portugal’s Golf Course Rankings Shake Up

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The “King” has been toppled after 15 years. A new course is at the top.

Top100GolfCourses.com has published its 2026 update to Portugal’s Top 50, and it is being called the most volatile edition in the list’s history, with only four courses holding on to their previous position. That is a lot of movement for a country with around eighty-six eighteen-hole courses spread across five regions.

For anyone planning a golf trip to Portugal this year, it is also useful reading: a top spot is not permanent, and neither is a top-ten place secure. At the summit, a course that only opened in 2023 has done something no course outside the Algarve has managed since 2008: taken the national number one spot. (Top100GolfCourses.com)

A New Name at the Top

Fairway through dune land at Dunas Terras da Comporta golf course near Lisbon

Dunas Terras da Comporta, an hour south of Lisbon on the edge of the Sado Estuary, now sits at number one in Portugal. Designed by David McLay Kidd through natural dune land, it has collected a run of international honours since opening in 2023, and this latest placing confirms it as more than a passing trend. It is the first time since 2008 that a course from the Lisbon & Central region has led the national ranking. Five minutes away, the Torre course, designed by Sergio García, gives the estate a second layout worth building a trip around. Play Dunas Terras da Comporta and the case for both makes itself.

Monte Rei Steps Aside

Monte Rei North golf course in the Eastern Algarve

For fifteen years, Monte Rei North held the number one position in Portugal without serious challenge. That run ends this year. The Jack Nicklaus Signature design near Tavira in the eastern Algarve now sits at number two, still firmly inside the country’s elite, still one of the more complete tests of golf on the Iberian Peninsula. Set among cork oak and pine, the course rewards accuracy over power, and its practice facilities are as complete as its ranking suggests. Fifteen years at the top is not a run many courses anywhere in the world can claim, and second place on a list this competitive is no demotion. It is simply Portuguese golf catching up with itself.

Quinta do Lago South Returns to the Podium

Monte Rei North golf course in the Eastern Algarve

Quinta do Lago South climbed three places to number three, reclaiming a podium finish and reasserting its position as the Algarve’s leading traditional resort course. Set within the Ria Formosa Natural Park, it pairs golf with one of the region’s more distinctive landscapes, saltwater marshland giving way to fairways rather than the other way around. The course has long been the benchmark against which newer Algarve designs are measured, and this year’s ranking makes that case with numbers rather than reputation alone.

Rankings shift from year to year, this year more than most, with six courses entering the Top 25 for the first time. What doesn’t shift is why golfers keep returning to Portugal: more than three hundred days of sunshine in the Algarve, a growing case for Lisbon & Central, and courses across both regions built for a repeat visit, not a single tick on a list. Browse our Algarve golf holidays and see the courses behind the numbers.


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The Tournament That Discovered Sergio García Returns to Valencia This Week

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Before the Majors, They Play El Saler

Every July, the future of European golf assembles on the Mediterranean coast south of Valencia, and few people outside junior golf circles notice. This week is no exception. The European Young Masters 2026 begins today at Parador de El Saler, bringing together 120 of the continent’s best under-16 golfers from 33 countries, competing individually and in the Nations’ Cup team format. It is a small event by spectator standards. It is not a small event by any other measure.

A Roll Call Worth Knowing

120 of the continent's best under-16 golfers from 33 countries
The names attached to this tournament’s history explain why it matters. The first European Young Masters was held in 1995, and its inaugural boys’ champion was Sergio García. Since then the boys’ and girls’ titles have passed through the hands of Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, Jon Rahm, Carlota Ciganda, Suzann Pettersen, Georgia Hall, and Matt Fitzpatrick, among others. Whoever lifts the trophy this weekend joins that list. Nobody watching will know yet whether they belong on it. (Polski Związek Golfa)

The Course Doing the Testing

El Saler is not a gentle proving ground. Built in 1968 by Javier Arana, widely regarded as the defining architect of Spanish golf, the course sits inside the El Saler Natural Park on the Mediterranean shore, its front nine running through beach-links terrain reminiscent of Scotland and its back nine turning inland through pine forest.

120 of the continent's best under-16 golfers from 33 countries

Bernhard Langer holds the course record. Professionals, amateurs, institutions, and the specialised press have long ranked El Saler among the finest course layouts anywhere. (European Golf Association) Golfers wanting to walk the same links can do so at El Saler Golf Course, with the on-site Parador de El Saler putting rooms a short walk from the first tee.

A Nations’ Cup With Real Stakes

Alongside individual medals, the tournament runs a Nations’ Cup: each country’s three best daily scores from its four representatives are combined, and the lowest total after three rounds of stroke play wins. Spain won that inaugural Nations’ Cup in 1995 and has claimed it more times than any other country since — a small but pointed detail for a tournament staged on home Valencian soil.

European Young Masters 2026

Junior tournaments rarely make headlines, and that is precisely why they reward attention. Somewhere in this week’s field at El Saler is very possibly a name that will be familiar within a decade. Golfers keen to test the same coastline for themselves can browse Costa Blanca golf holidays and see what drew Arana, Langer, and now Europe’s best juniors to this stretch of Mediterranean links.


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