El Soto Golf Club is a nine-hole par-three course, short and enjoyable for beginners who want to hit their first shots from tee to green, yet also challenging for more expert players keen to fine-tune their short game. With holes averaging 60 metres, and steep…

Open since April 2001 and perched among umbrella pines above the marina of the same name, Cabopino Golf is Marbella's 12th golf course. Short but sweet is the way to describe Cabopino, which offers three par-3s, two par-5s and 13 par-4s in its 5,170-metre layout.…

Greenlife Golf Club is a nine-hole par-3 course of 1,142 metres. With narrow, well prepared fairways, the holes run from the shortest at 89 metres to the longest at 169 metres. The greens are large and offer a considerable variety of pin placings. The course…

Santa María Golf & Country Club”, as the name suggests, is far more than a Golf Club. Based around an 18th century “cortijo” which currently forms the Club House, the grounds boast stunning gardens and fine leisure facilities including tennis, swimming and lawn bowling. “Santa…

The long-awaited Santa Clara opened for play in the early summer of 2001. For months motorists had stared longingly at its green expanses as they sped past on the N-340 just outside Marbella opposite the Los Monteros hotel. But Enrique Canales, the course designer, and…

Adjacent to its new neighbour Santa Clara, Marbella Golf & Country Club is a typical Robert Trent Jones design, with its sweeping fairways, abundant bunkers and large undulating greens. The first few holes require accurate and brave tee shots to get across the ravines and…

Golf Río Real, three kilometres east of Marbella, was designed by the foremost Spanish golf architect Javier Arana and opened in 1965. A basically flat course sloping gradually down towards the sea, it is very picturesque. Large trees offer plenty of shade and the fairways…

An insomniac’s delight, this course is open around the clock. The first course in Europe to stay open 24 hours a day, the Dama de Noche was designed by Enrique Canales and takes its name from the flowering shrub whose night-time fragrance is said to…

Magna Marbella Golf - a lengthy nine-hole course - is located in the heart of Nueva Andalucía’s Golf Valley, just two kilometres from Puerto Banús. Designer José María Elguezábal has been able to blend both simple and difficult elements to create a golf course ideal…

Trent Jones and opened in 1968, it has hosted the World Cup on two occasions, the Spanish Open three times and the Mediterranean Open. For club golfers and professionals alike it represents one of the ultimate challenges. Playing here is a major event for any…