Alicante – The Finest Golf, Sun and Sea

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Lo Romero Golf

Lo Romero Golf

Alicante’s ideal location on the Mediterranean coast makes it a highly attractive destination for beach lovers and golfers alike. Situated on the East coast of Spain, this region boasts some of the most impressive golf courses in Spain. Blessed with very short, mild winters, you can still enjoy the glorious blue flag beaches after your golf round in the Spanish sunshine, even in January.

The El Altet Beach located in Elche, is made up of a dune complex with natural vegetation. Being 1000m in length and 100m wide, this blue flag beach is popular with wind surfers. There are several nearby Golf courses. The Font Del Llop Golf Resort, which has a playing area of international size that has five exit tees for each hole. The Alenda Golf Course, completed in October 1999. It covers 49 hectares of land, 18 holes, par 72 and 6,257 metres in length, as well as an excellent practice area and Elche Golf School, the first to open in the Community of Valencia, offers spectactular facilities.

Alenda Golf Course

Alenda Golf Course

The San Juan Beach, Alicante, is just 25kms from Alicante airport. It stretches 2900m from the El Campello fishing village to Cabo de las Huertas. Best known for its crystal clear waters and golden sands, this coastal strip is also popular with water sports enthusiasts. What finer place to relax after a round at the Alicante golf course, described as “A challenge for the game and a feast for the eyes”. Going a little further afield you can play a round at the beautiful Bonalba Golf course with its 5 lakes or El Planito with its two golf courses, 18 holes Par 72 championship, and the other a 9 hole par 27.

La Caleta Beach, Orihuela, in the Southern province of Alicante, provides great facilities. The beach received 11 blue flags in 2017. The 387m coastal strip has natural protection from the cape itself and a sea wall, resulting in a calm sea. There is an old Watchtower at La Caleta, which was once used to monitor pirate attacks during the 16th Century. There are numerous quality golf courses nearby the award winning beach, including: Las Colinas Golf & Country Club, La Finca, Vistabella, La Marquesa and Lo Romero Golf.

Recommended Hotels in Alicante
La Finca Golf & Spa Resort
El Plantío Golf Resort
Alicante Golf
Bonalba Golf Resort & Spa

Golf Montanya & Montanya Hotel & Lodge

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Golf Montanya

Golf Montanya

Golf Montanya course is conveniently located just 35 minutes from Barcelona and 45 minutes from Girona. Real Club de El Prat and PGA Catalunya Resort, two of the best golf courses in the region, are located only 40 minutes away. Golf Montanya is ideally placed in the middle of them, which is the reason why many tour operators make packages combining these three excellent golf courses.

Golf Montanya is the number one Natural Environment golf course in Barcelona.
It has a close relationship with the National Park of Montseny which has received biosphere status from UNESCO. It was designed by the prestigious english golf designer David Thomas and opened in 1989. The golf course is always kept in excellent condition.

At Golf Montanya, players are treated as valuable customers in a friendly and familiar atmosphere. With only 195 members the golf course is never crowded. There are no slow game problems. There is a high availability of tee times even at weekends.

The resort provides the best gastronomic experience in the region. On the 1st floor of the clubhouse you will find the prestigious Restaurant l’Estanyol, a top quality gastronomic restaurant. It is one of the best in the district and it is visited by hundreds of golfers and non golfers during the year.

At Golf Montanya they can organise a variety of great activities using their in depth knowledge of the region including a visit to the medieval city of Vic, wine tasting at the prestigious wineries “Bodegues Abadal” and city breaks in nearby Barcelona.

Portugal Golf Inter Clubs Championship

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Vilamoura golf club refuses any favoritisms

Inter Clubs Championship - Golf Club Vilamoura

Inter Clubs Championship – Golf Club Vilamoura

Oporto Golf Club is defending its title, but, at least in theory, Club Golf Vilamoura is the strongest team in the masculine competition from the Club’s National Championship – Solverde, which gives away the Visconde Pereira Machado Cup. The competition is counting on 13 teams and happens between Thursday and Sunday at the Vidago Palace Golf Course.

Besides its history, Vilamoura has the lowest handicap set – it is the only team whose hcps goes down to a plus, with a sum of +4,7 among its six players. It also counts on the national champions (Tomás Melo Gouveia), as well as with sub-16’s (Gonçalo Teodoro), sub-14’s (Francisco Matos Coelho). Portuguese ex number 1 Vítor Lopes and also an expert, Nathan Brader will also attend. Number six on the team is Calvin Holmes. Although he is very young, he managed to shine in 2015, as well as Teodoro, on the fourth consecutive winning of the Vilamoura team from Algarve, matching C. Golf Estoril’s record of 16 titles.

Last year at Montado Hotel & Golf Resort, Vilamoura Golf Club, missed what would’ve been the first fifth championship in the competition and the record of 17 wins. The team was eliminated in the semi-finals by Miramar Golf Club – which actually lost then with Oporto Golf Club.

Oporto Golf is now looking to obtain its second victory in a row, eighth in its history. Miramar Golf Club, whose last victory goes way back to 1994, managed the vice-championship title in 2014 and 2016, is the second strongest team.

A little note about Lisbon Sports Club second-time winner for midi-amateurs (over 30 years old). Without its best player, José Maria Cazal-Ribeiro, the team has yet some important names such as Luís Costa Macedo, Gonçalo Costa or Tiago Tavares, among others.

Apart from these four teams, C.Golf Vidago Palace, C.Golf Santo da Serra, C.Golf Ilha Terceira, Quinta do Peru, Juve Golfe, Bom Sucesso, Oeiras and Estoril are also part of Portugal Golf Inter Clubss competition.

The competition has a stroke play round and, after that, match play. The first eight teams are placed on the 1sr Flight, and the remaining ones on the 2nd Flight.

The feminine golf competition has only three team competing: two from Miramar and another one from Santo da Serra. Miramar is trying hardly to win for the fourth time in a row.