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Golf courses Valencia / Costa BlancaGolf Courses Valencia! - The beautiful city of Valencia is blessed with a fantastic climate which allows you to play golf all year round. The Comunitat Valenciana has many wonderful golf courses stretching from Castellón in the North to Alicante in the south. The city of Valencia has four golf courses and the best is Club de Golf El Saler. It's one of the most famous golf courses in the world and the number one golf course in Spain. It's set in a beautiful location near the l'Albufera nature reserve and the Mediterranean sea. It's only 12km from the centre of Valencia and can be reached by taxi or bus from Gran Vía Germanías or Marqués del Túria in Valencia. Club de Golf El Saler (18-hole course)
There are three other golf courses which are within easy reach of the city centre - Manises, El Bosque and Club de Golf Escorpión. Club de Golf Manises (9-hole course)
Club de Golf El Bosque (18-hole course)
Club de Golf Escorpión (18-hole course)
There is another more recent well-known 18 hole golf course to the south of Valencia city near Gandia and Oliva. The course opened in 1995 and was designed by Seve Ballesteros. It has eight lakes and is set in a beautiful location on the Costa Azahar. Gandìa and Oliva are very popular resorts with people from Madrid the UK and Germany. There are many great villas and apartments located near the golf course so it's great if you want to combine a city trip to Valencia with a couple of rounds of golf. Club de Golf Gandìa
La Finca Golf Course This golf course was completed in 2002 and designed by D. Jose Gancedo. The putting greens are Pencross and the greens is bermuda grass. There are 18 holes and a par 72. You can play from 8am to end of the solar light. Excellent tees, greens and fairway. This golf course is highly recommended as the course is on two levels and the bunkers are placed in just the right places to catch the misdirected balls. Course info:
A splendid 18 hole Golf Course designed by Severiano Ballesteros that covers a surface area of 518.842 sq.m., the majority of which forms part of the La Condomina. Its Social Club and restaurant offers all the services you would expect from a club of this category, not to mention all the advantages a 5 star hotel such as the Hesperia Golf Spa situated on hole 18 has to offer. Course info:
Alenda Golf is an entertaining course for golfers of any level and it requires skill and precision in both long drives and putts. Opened in 1999 and designed by Roland Favrat, Alenda Golf has gently rolling fairways and the greens have tricky slopes that requires a good line and putting stroke. The course has elevated greens which offer a challenge to any standard of golfer and the tee shots also require good positioning. The first 9 holes of the course are wide and lined by trees, whereas the last 9 holes require a great deal of concentration, as this is the technical part of the course where accuracy is more important than distance. The course offers stunning views across the mountains and the Mediterranean. Course info:
Bonalba Golf Course, with 18 holes, a par of 72, and a total length of 6,367 meters (approx. 7,000 yards), was created, as many other golf courses in the tourist areas, as a part of an enterprising Real Estate Project with more than 3,000 houses (villas, apartments, detached and semi-detached houses…), developed by the Grupo Alicante Urbana. Bonalba Golf Course is located close to the Mediterranean in the Municipality of Muchamiel, in Alicante (Spain). The annual average temperature of 18 º C, together with being merely 2 km. away from the Playa de San Juan (San Juan Beach) make Bonalba an exceptional setting to play golf all year round, and also a preferential destination for the golf players of the North of Europe. Notwithstanding the fact that it is one of the most recently created Golf Courses in the Comunidad Valenciana (Autonomous Community of Valencia), it already has a great number of visitors. It was opened on October 1995, and it receives more than 60,000 players each year; thus confirming that it is a Commercial Course, while, on the other hand, this also proves its quality. Relevant events have taken place here, such as the Final Round of the National Professional Golf Circuit in 97 and 98, the Spanish Junior and Boys Tournaments in the year 2000, as well as the Costa Blanca Challenge, and the European Challenge Tour that same year. The variety of its vegetation, lakes and water hazards, its great number of bunkers and its wide greens arranged in an amusing design made by Ramón Espinosa make Bonalba an interesting and appealing challenge for the amateur golfer as well as for the professionals. A slope rating of 132 on the yellow bars shows us the degree of difficulty of the course. The first 9 holes are quite technical, as the golfer has to avoid three of the five existent lakes, which play an important role in five of the first nine holes of the round. The three last holes of the first part of the round can spoil even the best score card, as they are the handicap 1 (par 4), 13 ( par 3), and 3 (par 4) in the course. These 3 holes have been called by the local golfers the "Amen Corner" of Bonalba. The second 9 holes, being also quite technical, require a stronger stroke, they are holes where the dominant breeze from Levante makes it difficult to reach the green, normally forcing the golfers to use more "woods" than usual, especially on holes 16, 17, and 18, where the breeze blows right into the faces of the golfers. Course info:
Why should you play? It's an outstanding, undulating course in a dramatic, contrasting landscape. One minute you're trying to steer clear of trees and shrubbery and the next you're battling to avoid barren rock outcrops. Be warned it's a battle you might well lose. But you'll love trying. Best bit. The challenge of propelling your ball over a series of gorges and ravines. The first - a 341-metre sharp dogleg right of a par four- sets the tone. You can either gamble and drive over a rocky hillock or play safe by taking an iron , aiming for an area straight ahead but leaving a lengthy second shot. Decisions, decisions... and Las Ramblas is full of them." Today's Golfer magazine, January 2001. Course info:
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