One Course a Week, Right Through August
The Vilamoura Summer Tournaments return this August with four Individual Stableford Net competitions, one per course, spread across the month. Entry includes lunch, warm-up balls and a shared buggy for each round — a straightforward package for anyone who fancies pairing a summer stay with some competitive golf.
The Schedule
Three of the four rounds fall on a Tuesday, with the closing event shifting to the Monday before month’s end. The Old Course opens on 4 August, priced at €195. Pinhal follows on 11 August, then Millennium on 18 August, with Laguna closing things out on 24 August — the latter three each priced at €125.
The Four Courses
The Old Course was laid out by Frank Pennink in 1969 and reworked by Martin Hawtree in 1996. Doglegs and well-guarded greens ask for precision over power, and a recently rebuilt clubhouse and TrackMan-equipped driving range give the round a modern edge either side of it.
Pinhal is Vilamoura’s second course, dating to 1976 and remodelled by Robert Trent Jones in 1985. Pine trees line most fairways, which makes for a shaded round in August and a genuinely tricky one — the 18th, a blind uphill approach guarded by three bunkers, has a reputation for wrecking scorecards.
Millennium has been open since 2000 and is the most played course at the resort. The front nine winds through pine trees; the back nine opens into flatter, more forgiving terrain. A fair test for most handicaps, and a sensible one to start a golfing week on.
Laguna is the outlier of the four — low-lying, largely treeless, and built around a series of lakes that come into play on eleven holes. Wind off the coast is the real defence here, along with 79 bunkers for anyone who finds dry land.
Format and Prizes
Each tournament runs as a standalone Individual Stableford Net event. Prizes go to the top three overall finishers, with Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive awards presented separately for men and ladies at every round.
What’s Included
Lunch, warm-up balls and a shared buggy come with every entry, whichever course is on the card that week. The Old Course carries the higher fee of the four, reflecting its status as Vilamoura’s original layout; the other three rounds are priced identically.
Four courses, four Stableford rounds, one August circuit — golfers can enter a single tournament or take on the full set. Sign up for the Vilamoura Summer Tournaments 2026 and pick your course.
The signing, held at the resort itself, closed a day in which Portugal’s Minister of the Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, opened some of the largest water infrastructure projects the Algarve has seen in years. For a region whose golf depends on rainfall it can no longer take for granted, the timing was not accidental.
