Fuerteventura Golf Course was the island's first 18-hole course, designed by Juan Catarineu around the near-constant Atlantic wind — wide fairways, ocean views from the front nine, and three interconnected lakes crossing the round. Book this one for genuine championship pedigree (it hosted the 2004 Spanish Open) just eight kilometres from the airport. ...
Costa Adeje is built from an old banana plantation, its original stone terrace walls restored into a José Gancedo-designed course that's hosted European Tour events and once welcomed Severiano Ballesteros for the Spanish Open. Book this one for a genuinely storied round five kilometres from Playa de las Américas, with sea views to La Gomera and a shorter Los Lagos nine for an easier afternoon. ...
Real Club de Golf Las Palmas is Spain's oldest golf club, founded in 1891 and rebuilt at the rim of the Bandama volcanic crater in 1957 by Mackenzie Ross — one of the club's own founding members, decades earlier. Book this one for a short, technical, history-steeped round through narrow, ravine-lined fairways, with an on-site boutique hotel if you want to stay the night. ...
Maspalomas opened in 1968, designed by Mackenzie Ross, and is generally considered Spain's first tourist golf course — flat, wide-open, and forgiving, with the Atlantic trade winds doing most of the defending. Book this one for an easy, well-maintained round that suits beginners and high handicappers especially well, right beside the Maspalomas dunes. ...
Anfi Tauro is Gran Canaria's Arizona-style desert course, carved out of three million cubic metres of volcanic rock by von Hagge, Smelek and Baril, with craggy outcrops, waste areas and three lakes shaping every hole. Book this one for a genuinely different test on the island, with Spanish PGA Championship pedigree and standout holes at the 6th and 13th — just note a buggy is required and comes at extra cost. ...
Las Américas sits in the heart of Playa de las Américas, its wind-sheltered amphitheatre layout hiding real history — the remains of aboriginal Guanche dwellings sit beside the 2nd hole — and a track record hosting the Tenerife Open de España Femenino. Book this one for an easy-walking round right in the resort action, with a golf school and video swing analysis on hand if you want to work on your game beforehand. ...
Buenavista was designed by Severiano Ballesteros himself, its back nine running along Atlantic cliffs so closely that five greens feel aimed straight at the ocean — earning it the nickname the ''European Pebble Beach''. Book this one for one of Tenerife's most dramatic rounds, with a five-star Meliá resort on site and genuine precision demanded at the 15th and 17th. ...
Amarilla's par-3 5th is one of the Canary Islands' great tee shots, a full carry over a rocky Atlantic inlet to a green perched on the far side. Book this one for the coastal drama and Mount Teide backdrop, then settle in for a technical back nine that rewards accuracy over power. ...
Las Playitas is a short course on paper — par 67, 4,824 metres — but John Chilver-Stainer's design uses eight par-3s, four lakes and ravines on all but five holes to make you use every club in the bag. Book this one for fast, multi-tiered greens that test precision over power, set among the hills and volcanic valleys of southern Fuerteventura. ...
Real Club de Golf Tenerife was founded in 1932, the second-oldest golf club in Spain, laid out at 600 metres above sea level by four of its own members among century-old trees and the Barranco de la Milagrosa ravine. Book this one for real elevation, cooler mountain air, and a course that hosted the Spanish Open back in 1964. ...
Ron Kirby's clifftop back nine, where the greens from the 13th to the 16th run close enough to the Atlantic to feel part of it, makes Meloneras one of Gran Canaria's most photographed rounds. Add a gentle front nine, four tees per hole and consistently praised conditioning, and this is the one to book if you want a coastal test that still welcomes every handicap. ...
Tecina drops over 500 feet from its clifftop 1st tee to the 18th green, the only golf course on La Gomera and one of the most dramatic settings in the Canaries, with the Atlantic and Mount Teide in view on almost every hole. Book this one if you want a genuinely different day out: the par-4 10th, with its cliff-edge tee and ravine-split fairway, is worth the ferry crossing on its own. ...
Spain golf courses (21) with the best green fees, tee times online and golf deals in Canary Islands
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