Staysure Legends Tour

The Legends Head for the Dunes: Comporta Hosts Its First Senior Tour Event

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Major champions, a Ryder Cup captain and free admission. Comporta has rather outdone itself.

For a stretch of coast long described as Portugal’s best-kept secret, Comporta is making an increasingly poor job of keeping it. From 30 October to 1 November 2026, Pinheirinho Golf Course hosts the inaugural Portugal Legends Championship, the newest stop on the Staysure Legends Tour. Entry for spectators is free. In golf, that is practically unheard of.

Who’s Teeing It Up

The field is expected to include Michael Campbell, who held off Tiger Woods to win the 2005 US Open at Pinehurst, and Paul McGinley, Europe’s winning Ryder Cup captain at Gleneagles in 2014. Two of McGinley’s team from that week, Jamie Donaldson and Stephen Gallacher, are also slated to play. Donaldson hit the wedge to the 15th green that won the Cup, and there is a plaque on the fairway to prove it. (Golf Business News)

A fairway at Pinheirinho Golf Course in Comporta running between umbrella pines and sandy dunes

A Course Brought Back From the Brink

Pinheirinho has had a more eventful life than most golf courses. Designed by Jorge Santana da Silva as part of an ambitious tourism and property project, it closed not long after it was first unveiled. A change of ownership brought eighteen of the original twenty-seven holes back into play, and the course reopened in 2022.

The second act has been kinder. The layout threads through secondary dunes and pine forest, with heavily sculpted bunkering and a 3.5-hectare lake for those who like their jeopardy wet. The clubhouse is by Jacobsen Arquitetura, and Six Senses Comporta, the brand’s first resort in Portugal, sits on the same estate with access to 60 kilometres of Alentejo coastline.

Two More Reasons to Stay the Week

Three days of watching legends is a fine start, but nobody flies to Lisbon to keep their clubs in the bag. Down the road at Terras da Comporta, David McLay-Kidd’s Dunas Course has long been the headline act, and it now shares the bill with the Torre Course, the first signature design by Sergio García. Torre opened in the summer of 2025, plays to par 72 over 6,790 yards, and was named the world’s best new golf course at the 2025 World Golf Awards. (Golf Monthly) (Rus Tourism News)

That makes three serious courses within a short drive of one another, all about an hour south of Lisbon. Dunas is the bold links-style test, Torre the more strategic thinker’s round, and Pinheirinho the woodland interlude between them. A week here does not repeat itself.

The second hole of the Torre Course at Terras da Comporta, with sandy waste areas and pine trees

Rice Fields and Long Lunches

Comporta is rice country, and the paddies that line the road in from the north are not decoration. Order the arroz de marisco at lunch and you are eating the local crop. The village itself remains resolutely low-rise, all thatched roofs and barefoot beach restaurants, which is precisely why people who could go anywhere keep coming here.

How to Watch

The Portugal Legends Championship runs over three rounds, from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 2026. Tickets are free; spectators simply register their interest on the tournament page. The autumn timing suits the Alentejo nicely, with the summer crowds long gone and the light rather better for it. (Legends Tour)

Browse our Lisbon golf holidays and build a Comporta week around the Legends, or come later and play the courses in peace.

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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