Algarve Golf Courses - Tivoli Alvor Algarve

Alamos Golf introduces the player to the delights of the Algarve countryside - a peaceful and rural setting uninterrupted by roads or buildings.

Set alongside Morgado course, Alamos is shorter than its neighbour but still challenging and very endearing. Players used to playing off forward tees might opt for the back tees on this course.The greens are small and sloping, as are some of the fairways. Trees guard some of the greens and come into play on approach shots. Wildlife and fauna surround.

Located within 5km of Penina, Morgado is a quality new course on the Algrave and has recently hosted the 2006 Oceanico International Open on the EuroPro Tour.

The course has a links-like style, with open firm fairways, contoured greens and some deep bunkers.

The par-3s and par-5s are perhaps the more difficult in terms of length; the par-4s are reachable with 2 reasonable shots, but are also enjoyable and challenging.

The redesigned Palmares (completed in 2010) golf course features 27 holes of parkland and traditional links.

“Palmares Golf Course is special on so many levels. The expansive ocean vistas, dramatic elevation changes, intimate valleys, and expansive dunes gave us an environment from which we could craft a golf course with enormous depth of character and challenge”. Robert Trent Jones Jr

Each nine-hole course has its own character:

Lagos Course – features the only two lakes of the layout at the short par 3 third and long par 4 sixth. The final holes are played into the expansive dunes on the southwest portion of the layout.

Praia Course – set alongside the seaside dunes with full exposure to all of the elements! The four seaside holes are bracketed by the beach and railway line, with the closing hole rising out of the dunes onto an amphitheatre green below the clubhouse.

Alvor Course – a parkland layout played through narrow fairways lined with mature pine trees. The majority of the holes feature dramatic elevation changes either ascending hillside or descending through valleys.

Palmares has hosted a variety of amateur and professional events including the Europro Tour circuit.

The 18-hole Penina Championship Course features holes which are crossed and flanked by a series of streams, ditches and water hazards, demanding precisely executed shots.

The course is beautifully maintained, winding past tall stands of eucalyptus and clumps of palms to mainly elevated greens which have subtle slopes and sometimes treacherous speeds.

The memorable par-three 13th has been voted one of the best 500 holes in the world and requires a long carry over water to a green guarded by sand.

The course is characterised by an unusual grouping of the par-5's, with four of the five arranged together in pairs at the beginning and end of the back nine producing a par of 38 as opposed to 35 for the front nine.

Penina also offers a 1,850m nine-hole par-30 Academy Course for players to sharpen their skills on before or after their rounds on the Resort and Championship courses!