15 May 2008 03:52
Golf
The Southern Costa Blanca has fantastic golf, the high season mainly being the comparatively cooler winter months. On average, between November and the end of March, you get temperatures around the low 70s. You’re unlucky if you get more than 5 or 6 rainy days. This is blue sky golf at its very finest.
New courses are springing up all the time, but we have four particular favourites in the Torrevieja area:
Now a quarter of a century old, the maturity of this course is really breathtaking in its beauty. Playing over undulating fairways to well-protected greens, no two holes are alike on this superbly designed 18-hole beauty. A ravine comes into play on the inward nine and the par 5 14th and the par 3 17th are spectacular challenges on a course that is always in excellent condition.
Only two miles from Villamartin, Campoamor was opened in 1989 and is the most panoramic of the courses in the region. There are over 6000m of expansive fairways, excellent greens and deceptive lakes, making this is a long and testing course with six "dog legs" to keep you on your toes. Campoamor has a new majestic clubhouse and restaurant and offers the usual services such as club and trolley hire and practice areas.
This course offers, as the name suggests, a wonderful rambling course through valleys and over rugged terrain with the occasional water hazard, an excellent challenge! Maybe not for the fainthearted!
Opened in 2002, and is set alone in its own valley with breathtaking views, La Finca is a beautiful addition to Costa Blanca golf. The tapas bar at the elevated clubhouse gives a fantastic vista over the full sweep of the front nine fading into the distance. It’s a long challenging course with magnificent greens and water features that just seems to get better every year.