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Colin Montgomerie Headlines the Legends Tour Return to Costa Navarino

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The Staysure Legends Tour brings Major champions back to Greece for a third consecutive year, 12–14 June

The Staysure Legends Tour arrives at Costa Navarino next week for the third consecutive year, and this edition arrives with perhaps its strongest field yet. The Costa Navarino Legends Tour Trophy runs 12–14 June across two of the destination’s four championship courses — the fourth event on the 2026 Staysure Legends Tour calendar and the tour’s first continental European stop of the season.

Colin Montgomerie at the Staysure Legends Tour 2026

Colin Montgomerie is confirmed as the headline name. There are worse ways to spend a week in June. (legendstour.com)

Montgomerie Leads a Field Worth Watching

Montgomerie arrives in Messinia with a record that requires no embellishment: eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, 31 wins on tour, and the captaincy of Europe’s victorious 2010 Ryder Cup side. He is joined by defending champion Peter Baker, who won the 2025 edition without dropping a shot across the entire final round — a performance that set a bar most mortals would struggle to locate, let alone clear.

Paul Lawrie, the 1999 Open Champion, is also in the field. Lawrie was the story of last year’s event, carding a course-record ten-under 62 on The Hills Course in round two before Baker edged him on the final day. Michael Campbell completes a headline quartet that accounts for three Major titles between them. (golfbusinessnews.com)

The Courses: Designed for This Level of Golf

The tournament is played across two of the four layouts at Costa Navarino — The Hills Course and the International Olympic Academy Golf Course, both designed by two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal. Both sit at Navarino Hills, the 125-hectare development named the World’s Best New Golf Development at the 2020 World Golf Awards.

The International Olympic Course at Navarino Hills, Costa Navarino, overlooking the Bay of Navarino, Greece The Hills Course at Navarino Hills, Costa Navarino, overlooking the Bay of Navarino, Greece

Elevated above the coastline with sweeping views of the Bay of Navarino and the Ionian Sea, both courses offer the kind of elevation changes and precision demands that tend to separate a good field from a great leaderboard. The Hills Course, scene of Lawrie’s record round last year, will be carrying a certain atmosphere going into the final day. (costanavarino.com)

The Setting

Costa Navarino sits in Messinia, in the southwest Peloponnese — a region of olive groves, ancient hilltop fortresses, and one of the most storied stretches of coastline in the Mediterranean. The Bay of Navarino, watched over by the 13th-century Niokastro fortress, was the site of the last great naval battle fought under sail.

The coastline of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese, Greece, home to Costa Navarino
The light here in June sits low and golden over the Ionian Sea well into the evening. The food is exceptional, the pace is unhurried, and the courses are among the most visually arresting in Europe. It is, in short, the kind of place that makes the rest of the tour calendar look like it is trying too hard.
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Costa Navarino is one of those destinations that tends to settle the argument before you have finished making it. Four signature courses, two of them designed by a two-time Masters champion, set above one of the most beautiful bays in the Mediterranean. Accommodation that matches the golf step for step. And a corner of Greece that most of Europe has yet to fully discover. If the tournament has planted a seed, our Costa Navarino golf holidays are a good place to start.


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The Open de Portugal Returns to PGA Aroeira Lisboa

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After nearly thirty years away, one of European golf’s most storied tournaments comes home to the Wentworth of Lisbon

This September, the pine forests south of Lisbon will host professional golf again. The 64th Open de Portugal takes place at PGA Aroeira No.1 from 17 to 20 September 2026, marking the return of tournament golf to a course that has been part of the game’s fabric in Portugal for over half a century. The event is part of the HotelPlanner Tour and carries a prize fund of €300,000, with 156 players competing over four days. (HotelPlanner Tour)

Open de Portugal Returns to Aroeira

A Tournament Older Than the European Tour Itself

The Open de Portugal has been running since 1953 — nearly two decades before the European Tour existed. When the Tour launched its inaugural calendar in 1972, this was one of the events on it. That kind of longevity is rare in professional golf, and it places the tournament in company that very few events on the current schedule can claim. For the Portuguese Golf Federation, this is one of the centrepiece moments of the national golfing calendar.

The Course and Its Reputation

PGA Aroeira No.1 opened in 1972, the work of architect Frank Pennink, and was quickly given the nickname ‘the Wentworth of Lisbon’ by visiting players. The comparison was always a compliment with range — the course measures 6,122 metres over a traditional par 72 layout, winding through dense pine forest, and precision rather than power is the dominant theme, with tall trees doing the work that fairway bunkers do elsewhere. It is a course that rewards patience and punishes optimism.

Aroeira Fairway and Green

In 1996 and 1997, the course hosted the European Tour’s Portuguese Open — and the 2026 return closes a gap of nearly three decades. Portugal’s only PGA National, PGA Aroeira has recently emerged from a period of significant renovation, with new tees, reshaped bunkers, and cleared woodland between fairways opening up the layout and showing the course at its best. The resort was also named Europe’s Best Eco-Friendly Golf Facility 2025 at the World Golf Awards — recognition that the work done here goes beyond the scorecard.

What Brings 156 Professionals to Lisbon

The Open de Portugal is a Road to Mallorca event, awarding 2,000 points in the rankings that determine which players graduate to the DP World Tour at the season’s end. For many in the field, September at Aroeira will be one of the defining weeks of their year. The HotelPlanner Tour has been a reliable launching pad — recent winners at Royal Óbidos and other Portuguese venues have gone on to establish themselves at the highest level.

Aroeira Tee Lined Fairway

September at Aroeira

The conditions in mid-September around Lisbon are, frankly, excellent for golf. The resort sits within a protected pine forest on the Setúbal Peninsula, about 30 minutes from central Lisbon, with the Atlantic close enough to keep temperatures civilised. When the professionals leave, the course will be in tournament shape — and open for the rest of us.

PGA Aroeira No.1 is part of the Tee Times Lisbon Portfolio portfolio. If you would like to play the same course that hosts the 64th Open de Portugal, we can book your round.

The Open Championship 2026: Royal Birkdale Prepares for Its Biggest Week

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Record demand, a stellar field, and links golf at its most unforgiving — July cannot come soon enough

The 154th Open Championship arrives at Royal Birkdale on 16 July 2026, and the appetite for it borders on the remarkable. More than one million ticket applications were submitted for a week that is expected to draw over 300,000 spectators — which would set an all-time attendance record for golf’s oldest major. The Claret Jug returns to the Lancashire coast, and the world, in considerable numbers, intends to be there. (Golf Digest)

Royal Birkdale Golf Course Southport

A Course That Has Earned Its Place in the Rota

Royal Birkdale has hosted The Open eleven times. Only St Andrews has done so more. The course sits within a natural landscape of sand dunes and willow scrub, with fairways running through hollows that create amphitheatre-like conditions — some of the best spectator sightlines in championship golf. Its roll call of champions is a short history of the modern game: Arnold Palmer in 1961, Tom Watson in 1983, Padraig Harrington in 2008, Jordan Spieth in 2017. Birkdale does not flatter the fortunate. It finds out the worthy. (Golf Digest)

Scheffler Carries the Jug In

Scottie Scheffler won the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush in 2025 and arrives at Birkdale as defending champion and world number one. He is the kind of player links golf rewards: methodical, patient, built for the long game. The question is not whether he is the favourite — he is — but who, among a field of 156, has both the game and the temperament to take it from him.

Open Championship Claret Jug Trophy

The European Case Has Never Been Stronger

The 2026 major season has already produced a compelling storyline for European golf. Aaron Rai’s victory at the PGA Championship — the first by an English-born player since 1919 — announced a depth of European talent that the big events are no longer able to ignore. Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry and Robert MacIntyre complete a contingent that thrives in exactly the conditions Birkdale will provide. Fleetwood, who grew up in Southport, will be playing The Open in his own back garden — a fact the crowd will remind him of, loudly, at every opportunity. (Tee Times)

Spieth Returns to the Scene

Jordan Spieth won The Open at Birkdale in 2017 with a final round that remains one of the great modern major performances. He returns this July still chasing the PGA Championship — the one title that would complete golf’s career Grand Slam. The venue has history for him. Whether that history helps or haunts remains to be seen.

Jordan Spieth Winner 2017 Open Championship

Something New for 2026

The R&A have introduced a Last Chance Qualifier on the Monday of Open week — twelve players competing over Birkdale’s links for the 156th and final spot in the championship. Drama before the main event begins. It is, as additions to major weeks go, a good one. (Today’s Golfer)

The Open has a way of reminding golfers why links golf is the purest version of the game. If it has you thinking about that kind of test in warmer climes, the Algarve golf courses offer firm fairways, coastal winds, and conditions that prepare you for whatever Birkdale might throw at a field in July. Browse our Portugal golf holidays and see what the Iberian peninsula has waiting.