Real Novo Sancti Petri’s Summer Card Fills Up Fast

Fourteen Tournaments, Two Courses, One Very Busy Cádiz Clubhouse.

There is a particular kind of energy at a Spanish golf club in high summer, when the heat sits heavy over the fairways by mid-morning and the clubhouse fills anyway. Chiclana de la Frontera does not slow down for it. Real Novo Sancti Petri’s 2026 tournament calendar runs fourteen fixtures across July and August, a mix of national circuits, charity fundraisers and corporate golf days that keeps both courses busy well past the point most clubs start thinking about siesta.

Clubhouse terrace at Real Novo Sancti Petri during the summer tournament season

Fourteen Fixtures, Two Courses

Three events open the run in July, with eleven more following through August, split across the club’s two Seve Ballesteros-designed layouts, Pines & Sea and Centre. It is a demanding schedule for any club to host back to back through the hottest months of the year, and a fair indication of how central golf remains to summer life on this stretch of the Costa de la Luz. There is something rather satisfying about a fixture list this dense — proof that a club’s popularity holds even when the mercury does not cooperate. (Real Novo Sancti Petri)

Aerial Shot of Real Novo Sancti Petri

Corporate Names on the Card

Several of the August dates carry a brand’s name rather than a sponsor’s logo tucked in the corner — Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Ferrer Wines and Royal Bliss all host days, alongside hospitality fixtures for Coco Novo Beach Club, Le Club and Golf Divino. It is a reminder that in Spain, a golf day often doubles as a client lunch with rather better scenery — introductions made on the first tee, deals half-settled by the turn, the real business conducted somewhere around the eighteenth green with a cold drink in hand. (Real Novo Sancti Petri)

Real Novo Sancti Petri Drone Shot

Charity Fixtures and National Circuits

Unicaja and the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) both run fundraising tournaments within the calendar, sitting alongside stops on established national amateur circuits. For a club of this size, hosting both charity golf and competitive circuit events in the same eight-week window says as much about its course conditioning as its popularity — greens and fairways do not survive that kind of traffic on reputation alone.

Real Novo Sancti Petri Gol and Waves

Chiclana as a Base

The town itself rewards anyone building a trip around the calendar rather than just a tee time. La Barrosa beach sits a short drive from the clubhouse, its stretch of pale sand backed by pine forest rather than concrete, and the seafood along the seafront is the kind that makes an evening feel earned after eighteen holes in the heat. Chiclana has long operated in the shadow of its more famous Cádiz neighbours — Sancti Petri’s tournament calendar this summer is a definite argument for giving it rather more attention.

La Barrosa beach near Chiclana de la Frontera, close to Real Novo Sancti Petri

Booking a Round Around It

Registration for each fixture runs through TeeOne, with places allocated by order of booking rather than by invitation. Anyone travelling to the Costa de la Luz this summer who fancies a competitive round rather than a quiet one would do well to check the calendar before finalising dates — a packed tournament sheet also means a genuinely busy, sociable clubhouse most evenings.

A summer this full says everything about where Cádiz golf currently stands. Browse our Cádiz golf holidays and build a trip around it.

Vilamoura Summer Tournaments 2026: Four Courses, Four Weeks

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.

4 Golf Tournments in August in Vilamoura

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.

Vilamoura Old Course
Pinhal Gold Course, Vilamoura

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.

Millenium Golf Course
Laguna Golf Course
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.


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A Last-Hole Eagle Decides the BMW International Open

Michael Hollick’s Maiden Win Comes With a Flourish

Golf has a habit of waiting until the very last moment to reveal its winner, and Munich’s Golfclub München Eichenried offered no exception on Sunday. Hennie du Plessis had led by three shots with just a handful of holes to play at the BMW International Open — the kind of cushion that usually settles a tournament well before the closing stretch. It did not.

Michael Hollick, An Eagle for the Tournament Win

Michael Hollick closed with a birdie-eagle finish, holing an eagle three on the 72nd hole to snatch his maiden DP World Tour title by a single shot, finishing on 18-under 270. (Golf News Net)

A Three-Shot Lead, Gone in Two Holes

Du Plessis had done almost everything right through the front nine on Sunday, building the kind of lead that should have been comfortable. Golf rarely deals in comfortable. Two holes from home, the gap had disappeared entirely, and by the final green it was Hollick celebrating his first tour win — the sort of finish that makes even a Monday morning golf conversation worth having.

BMW International Open Trophy Golfclub München Eichenried

A Familiar Venue, an Unfamiliar Feeling

Golfclub München Eichenried has hosted the BMW International Open for decades, and its back nine has a reputation for late drama. This year’s edition lived up to it. Bernd Wiesberger, the highest-placed German in the field, finished alone in third on 14-under — a solid week, if a quiet one by comparison to the theatre above him.

An Eagle Landing with Gold

Michael Hollick, holds the BMW International Open Trophy

The eagle on 18 was worth rather more than the two shots on the card. Hollick’s win came with a cheque for $510,000 — comfortably the biggest of a career that, until Sunday, had produced nine missed cuts in 2026 and a single top-30 finish. Golf has an occasionally cruel sense of timing. This time, for once, it was generous. (Golf News Net)


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