Portugal Golf Holidays
Anyone playing golf in Portugal will have the experience imprinted on their memory, and they’ll be sure to want to return. With it’s excellent courses in dazzling scenery, a mild climate all year round and the hospitality and friendliness of the Portuguese people.
There are around eighty golf courses in Portugal with different layouts and levels of difficulty, there are ocean-facing greens flanked by cliffs and white sand dunes and other golf courses framed by lakes and mountains, many have been designed by famous architects, such as Henry Cotton, Rocky Roquemore, Arnold Palmer & Jack Nicholas, and they all share environmental quality and harmoniously blend into the landscape. The Algarve and Lisbon coasts are well-known golf destinations amongst more experienced players and have been awarded a number of international accolades. They host some of the major events on the professional golf circuit, being The Portugal Masters and Madeira Open events. There’s also golf to be played in the countryside in the Azores, but it was in Porto and the North that golf in Portugal first started.