Castro Marim Golf Course
Located on the Algarve in Portugal, close to the historic town of Castro Marim the course runs through undulating hills dotted with pines and occasional views across the River Guadiana to neighbouring Spain. This course calls for careful play with strategically placed water hazards and fairway terrain that can place you in trouble. This is not mention the well placed bunkers waiting for an erring ball. The par-3 on the seventeenth is a hole that calls for special club selection with bunkers in front of the green and a lake behind, whilst at the same time subject to the prevailing winds off the sea.
This course is one of the most physically demanding I played so far in my young golfers life. The rental of a cart is definitely recommended also for players in their mid thirties like me. Although I didn’t play too well when we were there, I liked the challenges the course offered me.
Castro Marim Golfe & Country Club
Apartado 70
8950-909 Castro Marim
Portugal
http://www.castromarimgolfe.com/
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[...] The first sings of live we saw on the putting green, it was freshly cut and – despite being wet from the fog – so friggin’ fast, you just tickled the ball and it ran like Carl Lewis in his best times. After our warmup, we proceeded to the first tee, about to play the A/B combination of the course, named Hörnle and Autenweiler. The first hole already showed us what we had to expect from this course: downhill, uphill and sidehill lies (almost as extreme as Castro Marim), trees or water hazards, demanding a solid club and course management and extremly fast greens. Keeping the ball in the fairway was the key to good scores on this baby, as already the semirough imposed a challenge, being wet and extremly thick. [...]