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Golf Holidays Portugal Style: Best Places To Go On The Algarve Coast

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When it comes to Mediterranean golf holidays Portugal is competing with neighboring Spain for sun-filled golfing breaks. This article covers the country’s most popular golf region, the Algarve, to highlight some of the key courses.

For any golfer wishing to play a different championship course each day of their golf holiday Algarve would be the ideal choice. And if you set up a base in Vilamoura then there really is dozens of courses to choose from.

Oceanico have some nice courses including their parkland Millennium course and the more mature Old Course. The course design has been perfected over the decades to improve the variety of holes. Moreover the consistency of the greens makes these enjoyable courses to play maybe two or three times.

Nearby the Vila Sol and Pinheiros Altos are as popular with locals as visitors (which is always a good sign) thanks to the shorter course length and forgiving wide fairways on most par 4s and par 5s.

At the other end of the spectrum the Vale Do Lobo Royal & Ocean courses are as challenging as they are picturesque. Running parallel to a 5 km beach the views are spectacular from higher tee-boxes and the fact that the Royal has hosted the open several times is noticeable in the number of water obstacles, fairway traps and tiered greens which make you happy to score a par or bogie every time.

Any golfers that enjoy links courses will no doubt wish to check out the western Algarve. Some of the perennial favorites include the Palmares, Salgados and Morgado do Reguengo golf courses which can play differently on each visit due to the strong Atlantic breezes.

At the higher end the Oceanico Faldo and O’Connor courses are recently built desert-style and parkland courses, respectively, though they play like they have been there for decades thanks to designs that have made best use of the terrain/surrounding woodlands.

For the sake of convenient golf holidays Portugal has enough world class courses on the Algarve, all within close proximity of each other, to make it possible to completely tailor a golfing break according to budget and style of course you enjoy playing.