PORTUGAL: THE PLACE OF GOLF

23 July 2022
PORTUGAL: THE PLACE OF GOLF

PORTUGAL: THE PLACE OF GOLF

 

 

FROM THE MAINLAND TO THE ISLANDS, PORTUGAL HAS ALREADY BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO BEING AWARDED AS THE BEST DESTINATION OF WORLD GOLF. AND GOLFERS DON'T TRADE HIM ANYWHERE else.

 

As in so many other duels, it is with neighboring Spain that Portugal disputes the primacy of the market share of tourism associated with golf. And this is due to a series of evidences starting with climate favors (which in its different parts Portugal offers an irresistible time for the practice of sport) and the excellence of its golf courses, in various formats and designs, able to adapt and even value the type of land for which they are drawn.

It is to the south, in the Algarve, that golf reigns supreme. Recent figures point to some 300,000 foreign visitors who purposely go to the Algarve golf courses to practice their sport of choice and this choice is not unrelated to all the infrastructure that surrounds and serves the golf clubs, clearly top noting. The rental of the equipment, the advantages of the green-fees, the brilliance of the restaurants, the inevitable rent-a-car and the hotel itself, which together solidify an authentic golf tourism industry that in figures of 2016 already represented 14% of the tourist GDP of the country.

 

 

Portugal as a destination for amateur and professional golfers from all over the world would already be good news, but the successful development of this young industry begins to bear fruit in the quality of golf Portuguese with a handful of Portuguese names to give that talk on different circuits and various projects in the trough that, popularizing access to sport will put in place a plan to create country golf courses outside.

Golf spreads like a beneficial fever, from north to south, without forgetting the center , Madeira and the Azores. And it came to stay and grow, delighting the foreign visitor and giving the locals the discovery of a much more fascinating sport than a lonely sport.

 

GOLF COURSES IN THE CENTER

 

LISBON BECOME FAMOUS IN THE WORLD AND THE QUALITY OF THE CLUBS AND GOLF COURSES OF THE CAPITAL OR AROUND THE CITY DO MORE OF THE SAME. AND IT IS SO THROUGHOUT THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY.

Because of (or because of) mass tourism, Lisbon walks in the mouths of the world. Privileged gateway to the country, opens wings to the rich artistic and natural heritage of the center of Portugal, not without first asserting its prerogatives of city of the most beautiful on the planet. But it is also a superior destination for the practice of golf, status with which the city has been officially awarded years on end.

There are those who do not resist playing golf in the heart of the city (Paço do Lumiar) but it is in the vastness of the coastal area, especially that it leads to Estoril, Cascais and beyond, that the large courses spread. Properly served by car transport lines throughout the country, the 'Estoris' are filled with top-notch fields, perfect design and the surrounding landscape to match.

Further afield, to the sides of Setúbal, other portentos golfers guess (Troy, in the group of the 100 best golf courses in the world). But the center of Portugal is much wider, as shown by the intriguing Montebelo Golfe de Viseu, with wide views between Caramulo and Estrela. And Óbidos, a remarkable triumph of tourist destination, that from Praia D'El Rey Golf to the Royal Óbidos SPA & Golf Resort passing the Guardian Bom Sucesso Golf, make a difference in the region.

 

GOLF COURSES IN THE SOUTH

 

THE HEATED VASTNESS OF ALENTEJO EMBRACES THE RIGORS OF GOLF, BUT THE GREAT PLEASURES OF THE GAME ARE RESERVED FOR THE ALGARVE, WITH FIELDS AND DREAM CLUBS.

With endless plains, food and wines of the best, good people and even warmer weather, the immense Alentejo still thinks how best to dedicate its beaches to golf but for now concentrates on the Golf Troy of Grândola and the trinity of benavente courses, aware that golfers have a unique region to know. Sure and well known that the Alentejo has all the conditions to shine even higher in the world of golf, but it will be difficult to compete with the southern neighbor, the Algarve.

There was 'planted' the largest number of golf courses in the country, half a dozen of them stone and lime in the top 100 of the world circuit. Golf in the Algarve is blessed by the evidence of the coastline, the list of beaches, unique vegetation and landscapes to lose sight of. It is a region that for the golfer lives on an unbeatable logic: one has all the qualities and gifts required by a foreign visitor in search of the pleasures of good weather, the good food that the sea gives on a platter and serious infrastructures, it is a matter of time before the tourist brings home their own tacos. Between fairways and greens, the perfect and adventurous design courses are repeated without ever being equal, with bunkers, lakes and cliffs demarcate the challenges of the golfer, with clusters of large courses that seem to cluster in niches (from Sagres to Portimão, Silves to Loulé or Tavira to Vila Real de Santo António). It has everything to be the world's greatest golf ing destination. And if it's not, right that you walk there in stride.

by: Golf Courses in southern Portugal | Golf & Leisure (bestguide.pt)

 

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