Courses & Resorts
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Vale do Lobo
Travel a little further west along the coast and you will arrive at the famous Vale do Lobo complex with its cracking pair of courses: the Royal and the Ocean. Sir Henry Cotton was the inspiration behind Vale…
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Monte Rei
So let’s start our travels on the eastern tip of the Algarve where it abuts Spain and then head west. Just to the north-east of the pretty town of Tavira, Monte Rei has deservedly developed an enviable reputation…
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Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa
The coastal towns north and south of Liverpool are still, mysteriously, something of a hidden secret, suffering from pre-conceptions about the area that run along the lines of ‘It’s-grim-up-north-west”.
But those stereotypes could hardly be…
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Montpellier Juvignac
The Golf Hotel Montpellier Juvignac, on the western side of the city, is of similar vintage. With a river running through 80 hectares of scrub to work with, New Zealand architect Chris Pitman designed the International course as…
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Beziers St Thomas
With some regret, I headed up the coast to Beziers St Thomas, another member of France’s 80-strong Golfy marketing group. With no on-site hotel, the Mediterranean garrigue, the distinctive scrubland that runs along the coast in these parts,…
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Montpellier Massane
Until 1977, Montpellier, the last stop on my tour, was a quiet university town with a population of 100,000. Then it elected Georges Freche, a socialist with Maoist leanings, as its mayor. A larger-than-life personality with an ego…
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Falgos
The next day, my little car chugged its way to a remote south-facing valley in the Pyrenees. Passing through picturesque St Laurent de Cerdans, I eventually arrived at Falgos where Mount Canigou is up close and personal and…
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Saint Cyprien
Then as now, the French were pretty golf-averse, convinced that a bourgeois game for wannabe toffs was not for them. Not so their neighbours. Swiss, Germans and Spaniards hurried to join clubs on the French side of their…
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Saint Samson
You may have seen Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, but what about France’s Pink Granite Coast – the Côte de Granit Rose? Here, the massive precariously perched boulders, up to 65ft high, seem to defy gravity itself, unlike the…
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Ela Quality Resort
It’s taken fewer than 20 years for Belek to go from a small village to one of Europe’s most popular golfing hotspots. It now possesses 11 outstanding golf developments hewn from beautiful pine and eucalyptus forests and offers…
