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Gorgeous panoramic views can be seen from most of its holes. It is common to take some of the most picturesque and characteristic enclaves of the city, like the Torre de la Vela, Alfaguara, Veleta or Pico del Caballo, as reference points for the game. In general, it is a technical and demanding course, but one that allows different handicap categories to enjoy the game. There are very difficult holes, like hole 5, where it is inevitable to feel a certain nervousness when you are on the tee. Others, however, allow you to recover blows with relative ease, such as holes 6 and 9. There are water hazards, such as the lakes of holes 5, 16 and 17, which at the same time are reservoirs of water for irrigation of the course.
In the center of the course, and at its highest point, is the clubhouse, from where you can see almost the entire route.
Hole 1White: 376 m
Yellow: 353 m
Gold: 328m
Red: 317m
Par four with dogleg to the left and downhill. With off-limits to the left and a lateral water hazard to the right, this is a hole somewhat tense to start with. The shot to the green does not usually present any problem as long as you have taken the fairway from the starting tee. Only a couple of bunkers located to the right of the green can complicate the result. Perhaps the solution would be to assume that it is not the best hole to make a birdie and leave happy with a good par.
Hole 2White: 164 m
Yellow: 164 m
Gold: 149 m
Red: 138 m
Par three with off-limits to the left. Two bunkers complicate the shot to the green. One occupying the right half of the entrance to the green and the other located high on the same side. If you have come out cooler than expected, the lateral water hazard located at the exit of the 17th hole may come into play. Don’t worry, it is somewhat far away.
Hole 3White: 477 m
Yellow: 462 m
Golden: 441 m
Red: 391 m
Par five with dogleg to the left and a downhill shot to the green. It shouldn’t present any complications if you are a draw player, because throughout the entire hole on the right side, a goat path enclosed with a metal fence and declared as off-limits, can play a joke and add two more shots to our suffered result. The shot to the green is beautiful, as if it were a painting right? Three bunkers form a gorge that could help us if we want to roll in. One is occupying the left side of the entrance and another at the right. The third bunker is situated somewhat past the left, penalizing those looking for the flag on this side, as there is little space between it and the entry bunker. Be careful with the slice and those that graze to the right of the green, course insurance does not cover damage to the horses.
Hole 4White: 339 m
Yellow: 319 m
Gold: 304 m
Red: 286 m
Par four with dogleg to the left. As you can see, at the exit the path continues and the neighs too, remember that it is still off-limits. On the shot to the green, the path gets too close, closer than it seems. So much, that as the ball bounces just two meters from the green to the right, you may have problems with the metal fence and the successive drops that you will have to carry out. A bunker that occupies part of the entrance and the left side of the green can bother you if the flag is located right on this side.
Hole 5White: 490 m
Yellow: 473 m
Gold: 458 m
Red: 446 m
Par five with dogleg to the right. The row of trees located on the right side hide an off-limits that comes into play more times than expected. The slope that delimits the field and the road, may save us from the penalty. The shot to the green will be full of obstacles starting with a frontal water hazard and then following two bunkers, one located at the entrance and the other protecting the left bottom of the green. A side-by-side slope divides the green into two parts, the one below which is narrower and shorter and the one above which is wider and deeper.
Hole 6White: 248 m
Yellow: 246 m
Gold: 231 m
Red: 200 m
A short par four but with a blind start. We don’t want to put pressure on you but there are few birdie holes on the course and this is one of them. Only three bunkers, one located at the entrance which can also disturb the exit and two located on both sides of the green. One off-limits at the back and a couple of olive trees at the entrance bunker can prevent us from leaving to the next one with one less blo
Hole 7White: 376 m
Yellow: 360 m
Gold: 340 m
Red: 333 m
Par four with dogleg to the left. At the exit there are two bunkers located on the left side of the fairway and an off-limits further to the left. The driver can get a couple of meters if the ball reaches the downhill located about 140 meters from the green. If it goes down, the second shot will be a free shot, with only two bunkers on each side of the green as the only obstacles. If the ball does not reach the bottom at the exit, it is not a bad choice to try to roll in considering that the fairway leans to the right
Hole 8White: 208 m
Yellow: 179 m
Gold: 173 m
Red: 166 m
Par three straight. Three bunkers. Two of them are very deep, located at the entrance on the left and at the same height on the same side they protect the shot on the left side of the green. Another one is located at the back on the right and it will only come into play if the flag is long. An off-limits past the green, although there is a space of about 30 meters to save ourselves if we have chosen a longer club. A slope awaits us on the green that divides the green in two, from side to side, in a similar way to hole 5, with the difference that the green is somewhat larger.
Hole 9White: 271 m
Yellow: 266 m
Gold: 240 m
Red: 221 m
Par four with dogleg to the right. This is another hole to take advantage of, although there is an off-limits on the left side that in case of closing it too much, and in addition to two more strokes, the owner of the glass that you have just broken may ask you for the amount of it and a little bit more than allows them to put more protective nets. If the exit is the right one, a downhill slope might bring the green ball closer, in which case only two bunkers, one occupying the entrance on the right side and the other occupying the left side, may prevent the merited recovery of the card.
Hole 10White: 239 m
Yellow: 225 m
Gold: 200 m
Red: 181 m
Par three downhill. It is not so bad to break our comeback plans. Only 250 meters, a very deep bunker that occupies basically the entire entrance to the green. Another one located to the right, small but large enough for us to fall into it and an off-limits bunker occupying the entire right part of the hole separates us from reaching a par that is not going to be more par than the one obtained in the previous hole, so… Cheer up! Perhaps the gorge formed by the two bunkers can save you from disaster.
Hole 11White: 158 m
Yellow: 149 m
Gold: 144 m
Red: 140 m
Par three uphill, the one that was missing to finish destroying us completely. If you are left with the feeling that you can open the ball, aim for the left because a bunker to the right of the green and a slope so long that you do not see the ball fall, full of olive trees, awaits you. In case you are convinced that you can play it straight, you will only have to fight with one bunker located at the entrance and another one that occupies the left part of the green. Oh! Don’t expect a long ball to save you, there are off-limits just behind the green.
Hole 12White: 293 m
Yellow: 277 m
Gold: 260 m
Red: 245 m
Par four straight. I think we deserve it. A good result in this hole can stop bogey bleeding. Only two bunkers on the left side of the fairway and another on the right side that will erase the green from our field of vision if we make the mistake of landing here. Another couple of them are located on either side of the green, being the one on the left deeper and a poisoned green on this same side, separate us from starting the comeback. Behind the green there is a slope that surely does not lead the ball to the metal fence that separates us from the off-limits, but this should not be a problem, right?
Hole 13White: 457 m
Yellow: 452 m
Gold: 438 m
Red: 425 m
Par five with dogleg to the left. The metal fence does not disappear, at least it will be present at the start, so be careful with the slice. Two bunkers define the fairway on the right side and an area of olive trees on the left side. The dilemma appears in the second shot when we will not know which club to take so that the ball saves the bunker on the right of the fairway, the off-limits on the left and does not reach the front water hazard located at the entrance of the green. In case that in the second shot you feel like escaping, don’t be shy about hitting as much slice as possible so that it stays on the other fairway and not in the lateral water hazard that lurks on the side. On the shot to the green you will find a bunker to the right and another to the left. Better short and to the left? No! You have the risk of encountering the two-meter snake that according to the legend lives in the lateral water hazard and apparently feeds on new balls.
Hole 14White: 433 m
Yellow: 357 m
Gold: 333 m
Red: 309 m
Par four straight. Easy if you have chosen to hit the driver on the left of the fairway, clearing the bunker on the right and the lateral water hazard and avoiding landing in the two bunkers located on the left of the fairway. The shot to the green should not present any problem unless you open it more than necessary, to the right of the green a somewhat deep bunker awaits you and unless you are about to take a frog jump, since at the Green entrance on the left side, another bunker a little shallower but no less annoying awaits you.
Hole 15White: 425 m
Yellow: 380 m
Gold: 359 m
Red: 346 m
Par four with a dogleg to the left and uphill. And we were feeling comfortable!
Our friend the metal fence greets us around the right side of this hole without truce, from tee to green. The option is not a slice, but with the draw we find the bunkers that this hole shares with the previous one. And now what? Our advice is that before hitting, you to take one last look at the pocket book that comes with the golf magazine or that you ask for divine help. Once on the fairway, the second shot is not “less easy” since it is the only blind green on the course. Short of the green and to the left there is a bunker that according to the statistics it gets 2 strokes from each player who visits it, to the right there is another one but at a height and, you do not see it but on the green there is a side-by-side slope that makes the shots and putts even more difficult, I speak in plural, because I don’t think you are only going to do one. If your option is to play at the left of the green and long, do not close it too much because a demonic slope and purposely mowed, will lead you to play a fourth shot with luxury spectators, half-meter tents.
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Hole 16Blancas: 400 m
Yellow: 389 m
Gold: 377 m
Red: 369 m
Par four with dogleg to the left, downhill and no brakes. As you can see, our friend the metal fence doesn’t want to miss the great bogey show, so it will bother us from beginning to end. To the left, a bunker par whose best resource in case of falling is to take a short club and take it out to the fairway. Just past the bunker there is a lateral water hazard which will serve as our first contact with our friends, the ducks. Not everything is bad news, in case of hitting a good driver, a slope can make us think we are more hitters than normal and bring the ball closer to a clear distance from the green. The green will be protected on the left by an army of ducks, closer to it, by a bunker that tends to turn a blind eye since it is shallow and on the right by another bunker that is advised to enter with a construction helmet due to risk that some ball coming from the practice field, hits in a fortuitous way? Just what we needed…
Hole 17White: 488 m
Yellow: 475 m
Gold: 451 m
Red: 433 m
Par five with a slight dogleg to the right. Nobody would like to kill a duck, but is even worse to throw a ball into a lateral water hazard on the first shot on a par five, so be careful not to hit the driver at the back. To the left of the fairway there are two bunkers that are very close to each other. Be careful with the second shot since you will have to place the ball between the lateral water hazard inhabited by the tents and another one located to the right, which is also advised to enter with the construction helmet that we have recently removed, since in this area, our physical integrity depends on the players who hit from the tee at hole 1. The green is protected by a bunker to the left and a slope that leads to the lateral water hazard where the famous snake lives. As if it were a Tribial token, two slopes divide the green into three triangular parts, the upper part being the smallest and narrowest.
Hole 18White: 128 m
Yellow: 123 m
Gold: 119 m
Red: 115 m
Straight par three of just 100 meters. That sounds good, right? It will not be this hole that will give you encouragement, but the snack at the bar once you leave the green will. It is the smallest green on the course with a slope that, from the start, splits the hole in two, with two totally different strategies. In case of flag on the left, don’t even look at it, focus on the center of the green because the elevation on this side is the highest, the approach being a matter of experts as much as if it is short as if it is long in the bunker located at the back. If the flag is to the right, don’t even dream about it, since a very small bunker that will barely let you swing, prevents us from finishing easily with a three.
