PLAY GOLF IN THE ALGARVE

It’s hard to imagine that up untill 1966 – when Henry Cotton laid out the championship course at Penina – golf as a sporting pursuit in the Algarve was virtually non-existent. Fast forward almost a century and the region is now one of Europe’s premier holiday destinations, drawing hundreds of thousands of golfers to its fairways all year round.

An incredible total of forty-two 9-hole or 18-hole layouts can be played at thirty-five different golf clubs within the Algarve zone of the Federaçâo Portuguesa de Golfe and more than half the courses strung out along this 100-mile southern facing coast feature in our Portuguese ranking list of top courses in the country.