Vale do Lobo Royal
Royal Golf Course at Vale do Lobo resort, has rolling fairways set amidst pine trees and beautiful lakes surrounded by wild flowers. Its features include the almost island green of the 9th and the famous 16th, with cliff-top carryover - one of the most celebrated golfing images in the world, which has become the veritable symbol of golf in the Algarve.|The Royal Golf Course was designed by top American golf architect Rocky Roquemore, based on original drawings made by Sir Henry Cotton. It was inaugurated in 1997.
Reception: 6:45am to 7pm(Summer) / 6pm(Winter)
Golf Clubs: Standard
Club House: With Restaurant and Snack bar
With driving range
With an Academy
Trolleys: Manual and Electric
With locker room
Pro Shop: 6:45am to 7pm(Summer) / 6pm(Winter)
Golf Lessons: Resident professionals
With putting green
Juniors: Up to 16 years oldVale do Lobo Royal - latest comments and reviews
Andy Edwards
2024-07-09
Good course. Some iconic holes. In decent condition, but I have seen it better. Again there seemed to be too many people booked in. Round took 5 hours to complete.
Nick Dalgarno
2024-07-04
A quality course and clubhouse facility but not including buggy before 12 noon is silly given everywhere else does and distances between some holes (we were relieved we had paid for the buggies). Also greens absolutely covered in pitch marks. Not exclusive to this course but I don’t understand why they don’t give every player a pitch mark repairer - especially considering the number of players who hire clubs out here and won’t have their usual equipment.
Also we played early and were told before teeing off that we could get food and drink from vending machines at 9th as cart would be unlikely to be on the course while we were playing. When we got there it contained 3 beers and a can of monster. Not exactly what we wanted
Jocelyn Brouwer
2024-06-14
To many slow players, no marshalls, buggies are too expensive for what they offer
Glyn Walker
2024-06-12
Very good apart from fact when we arrived they had us booked on the Ocean course which we had played 4 days ago. Had to argue to get on the Royal which we had booked! Bit frustrating!!!
Toine Rooijmans
2024-06-02
Course was ok, but generally quite repeating. The signature 15 & 16th was very nice.
Receptionist at the club house was generally impolite and borderline rude. Not friendly at all. Other staff were fine. Would not come back a 2nd time.
James Betts
2024-05-22
The course was great, lovely course. I was paired up with 3 Scottish guys players. One had his father with him all in Buggies. Really nice group of people. On the back 9 a Marshall came up and asked why we were playing as a 5 ball! We weren't we had four players plus one spectator. The Marshall came back 5 mins later and said the group behind had seen us playing as a 5 ball, and that they were members. I didn't know the Scottish guys but I told the Marshall that this was a blatant lie by the group behind as we only ever had 4 players with one spectator.
This incident was unpleasant and affected the last 7 holes of my round on a beautiful course. For the record we completed the round in 3 hours and 48 mins keeping up & waiting for the group in front.
Anyone especially members should not lie and get Marshalls to confront players. To be fair the Marshall believed us the second visit but it wasn't good.
Kind Regards
James
Jonathan Cheele
2024-05-16
Course condition, particularly buggy paths wasn’t as good as you’d expect, but closing holes as always special.
Per Lokken
2024-05-12
Transfer return to early , finished golf 13.15 and transfer was 13.30
The proshop changed it to 15.00
Horst Hubig
2024-03-13
Toiletten iauf den Plätzen in Vale do Lobo gehören renoviert. Ocean course im besseren Zustand,als im Jahr 2023.
Greenkeeping in Ordnung. -**- Toilets on the courses in Vale do Lobo should be renovated. Ocean course in better condition than in 2023.
Greenkeeping in good order.
Ronny Krogh
2024-03-13
Could you marshal duty on 16th as people skipped in line and snook in to make a que with later teetime
Andrew Finnie
2024-03-11
Fabulous course and facilities, we waited 5 holes and 1 hour 30 min for drinks,not so good.
Stewart Binnie-mckenzie
2024-03-04
Was way too slow , I had to wait on every shot I hit . Tbh I think apart from parque de Flores ya it is the poorest course I have played
Tecnicals
*Parkland - Total except the 16th
*Undulated - With some steepish climbs on the back 9
*Buggy Recommended - yes
*Signature Hole - famous 16th , par3
*Water hazards - Yes on both 9's, easily seen from tees
*Tree Lined - Yes, with Pines
*Dogleg - Couple on the back 9
*Comments - Excellent course, one of Algarve's best
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