Salgados & Amendoeira Experience
Salgados & Amendoeira Two Round Golf Package Faldo or Oconnor and Salgados best offer.
Play at Faldo or O'Connor and Salgados for a great value package.
*Buggies - Complimentary at Faldo or O'Connor
Pack available to play 1 round at Salgados and 1 round in Faldo or O'Connor
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Salgados Golf Course Albufeira, Algarve
Salgados is Pedro Vasconcelos's design, laid out with American architect Robert Muir Graves and opened in September 1994 within the wetlands of the Salgados Lagoon Nature Reserve, near Albufeira. A substantial renovation followed in 2012 under landscape architect Álvaro Mano, and the course has been freshened again more recently, including a new island green at the 12th.
It's a flat, links-style par 72 of around 6,100 metres, where water does most of the defending, in play on the majority of holes rather than literally every one. The signature pairing is the 6th, a par-5, and the reworked 12th, a par-3 played to that new island green. Palm trees line the fairways in place of the pines found elsewhere in the Algarve, and the wind off the coast is a constant factor on this exposed, open site. The flat ground means the buggy is optional rather than essential.
The clubhouse has a restaurant and bar, and the resort adds a driving range, resident professionals, locker room and pro shop. Book a round at the course built into a wetland reserve, and one regularly singled out as some of the best value golf in the Algarve.
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Amendoeira Faldo Golf Course Alcantarilha, Algarve
Sir Nick Faldo has put his name on very few courses, and Amendoeira Faldo is the one he built to be a genuine talking point. Opened in 2008 during Portugal Masters week, it reimagines a classic strategic layout for the Algarve's terrain: cacti and wild herbs stand in for heather, crushed limestone bunkers replace English sand, and the whole course carries a desert-hued character unlike anything else in the region. In 2016, it was named Portugal's Best Golf Course at the World Golf Awards.
This is a course that punishes guesswork. The 1st is a testing, uphill risk-reward par 4 that sets the tone immediately, and the challenge rarely lets up: a meandering watercourse crosses several holes on the front nine, the 5th offers the bold option of driving straight across the resort's largest lake, and the back nine holds a handful of blind shots that will keep the clubhouse conversation going long after the round. It closes with a genuinely testing par-5 18th. Faldo built this for the thoughtful player rather than the big hitter, and it plays that way, rewarding careful positioning far more than raw distance. Confident mid-to-low handicappers will find plenty to enjoy; higher handicappers should come prepared for a serious test.
Facilities include a full driving range, a resident academy, and a clubhouse restaurant with sweeping views over both Amendoeira courses. Pairing this with its sister course, the O'Connor Jnr next door, makes for one of the most complete two-course golf breaks in the central Algarve.
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Amendoeira O’Connor Jnr. Golf Course Alcantarilha, Algarve
The O'Connor course is Christy O'Connor Jnr's design for Amendoeira Golf Resort, opened in October 2008 alongside its sibling, the Faldo course. Where Faldo climbs the hillside, O'Connor stays down in the valley, a flatter and more forgiving round set among the orange groves outside Silves.
Water is the defining feature, in play on well over half the holes. The 3rd is the signature hole, a par-3 where a stream presses in from the right, its green watched over by a small Moorish-era relic on an island in the lake. Holes 7, 8 and 9 run alongside another lake in a stretch some now call the course's Amen Corner. The 5th keeps the theme going: Christy O'Connor Jnr wanted one hole that was simply oranges, and built it with groves running down both sides. Wind does much of the rest of the defending.
The buggy comes included with the green fee, and the resort adds a driving range, an academy with resident professionals, a clubhouse restaurant and snack bar, locker room and pro shop. Book a round to pair with the neighbouring Faldo course, and see the valley side of Amendoeira. (...)
