| Golf 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)
- Parador Nacional Luis Vives Carretera Nazaret-Oliva, Km 19 Valencia
46012
- Tel: 961 611 186
- Fax: +34 96 162 7016
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)
- Carretera Ribarroja, Km. 4 Manises - Valencia - 46940
- Tel: 961 523 804 /96 152 1871
- Fax: 961 523 804
Club de Golf El Bosque (18-hole course)
- Ctra. Godelleta, km 4,1 Urb. El Bosque 46370 Chiva - Valencia
- Tel. 961 808 000
- Fax 961 808 001
Club de Golf Escorpión (18-hole course)
- Ctra. San Antonio de Benagéber - Bétera 46117 Bétera - Valencia
- Tel. 961 601 211 / 34 961 690 210
- Fax 961 169 01 87
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
- Camino Viejo Grau de Gandía s/n
- 46730 Grau de Gandia (Valencia)
- Tel. 962 873 208
- Fax 962 961 384
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:
- Yards 6,773
- Par 72
- Holes 18
- Handicap: Men 28 - Women 36
Alicante Golf
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:
- Yards 6,897
- Par 72
- Holes 18
- Handicap: Men 28 - Women 36
Alenda
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:
- Yards 6,171
- Par 72
- Holes 18
- Handicap: Men 28 - Women 36
Bonalba
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:
- Yards 6,773
- Par 72
- Holes 18
- Handicap: Men 28 - Women 36
Las Ramblas
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:
- Yards 5,770
- Par 72
- Holes 18
- Handicap: Men 28 - Women 36
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