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Rediscover Monte Rei: Portugal’s Iconic Golf Course Reopens After Major Renovation

There are golf courses that impress with their scenery, others that challenge with their design, and a select few that manage to deliver both in equal measure. Monte Rei Golf & Country Club has long belonged to the latter category. Nestled in the rolling hills of Portugal’s Eastern Algarve, this celebrated destination has built its […]

Course Reviews

Best Golf Courses Around Rome: Where Ancient History Meets Modern Golf

Rome is one of Europe’s great city-break destinations, but its appeal to golfers goes far beyond having something to do between visits to the Colosseum and Vatican Museums. Around the Italian capital, golf courses occupy Roman countryside, volcanic hills, historic estates and landscapes shaped by ancient aqueducts. The variety is particularly appealing. You can play […]

Clubs

Austin Smotherman WITB: The Clubs Behind His 2026 Bank of Utah Championship Win

Austin Smotherman finally reached the breakthrough moment he had been chasing for years at the 2026 Bank of Utah Championship. Playing at Black Desert Resort in Utah, the Californian produced an outstanding four-round performance of 63-62-65-68 to finish 26-under par and claim his first PGA Tour title. His 258 total set a new tournament scoring […]

Destinations

Barrière Golf Properties: French Golf Escapes Where the Resort Is Part of the Experience

Golf in France can mean many different things: a morning round beside the Atlantic, a historic course cut through Normandy countryside, dramatic links-style scenery on the Emerald Coast, or a winter escape beneath the Atlas Mountains. Few hospitality groups bring such a broad selection together under one name as Barrière. With a history in golf […]

Destinations

Conrad Algarve Renovations: A New Chapter of Luxury in Quinta do Lago

In the heart of Quinta do Lago, one of the Algarve’s most prestigious resort destinations, Conrad Algarve is entering a new chapter. Following an extensive programme of renovations and enhancements, the luxury resort is combining its distinctive palace-inspired architecture with warmer interiors, stronger connections to the Algarve and a renewed focus on outdoor living, dining […]

Course Reviews

Cullinan Golf Links Resort, Belek: Where Golf Meets the Mediterranean

There are plenty of golf resorts around Belek, but few combine coastal golf, a luxury all-inclusive resort, 36 holes and floodlit play quite like Cullinan Belek. Set on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, the resort is home to Cullinan Links Golf Club, where the Mediterranean Sea lies on one side of the property and the Beşgöz River […]

Course Reviews

New Opening: Limassol Greens — Cyprus’ New Golf Destination

Cyprus has a new name on the Mediterranean golf map. Limassol Greens brings a brand-new 18-hole championship course, modern practice facilities, luxury residences and a growing lifestyle offering together in one destination, just minutes from the centre of Limassol. Set on a former citrus plantation beside the Akrotiri Salt Lake, the development is designed around […]

Course Reviews

Play Golf at Pebble Beach: What to Know Before You Go

Few golf courses have the ability to make a golfer stop thinking about the scorecard and simply look around. Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of them. Set above the Pacific Ocean on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the course combines dramatic coastal holes, historic championship golf and some of the most recognisable views in the game. […]

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Fancourt: The Garden Route Estate Where South African Golf Grew Up

There are golf resorts, and then there is Fancourt. Spread across 613 hectares beneath the Outeniqua Mountains in George, on South Africa’s Garden Route, Fancourt has spent three decades building a case as the most complete golf destination on the continent. It has hosted a Presidents Cup that golf historians still talk about in hushed […]

Course Reviews

Best Golf Courses Around Madrid

Spain’s golf reputation tends to orbit the coasts — the Costa del Sol, Valderrama, the Balearics. Madrid rarely gets top billing, yet the Spanish capital and the wooded, mountain-fringed countryside surrounding it hold one of the deepest concentrations of golf history anywhere in continental Europe. This is where Spanish golf itself was born, where a […]

Course Reviews

Your Golf Trip to Tunisia: Courses, Costs, and What to Actually Expect

Tunisia rarely comes up first when European golfers plan a winter escape – Morocco and the Algarve get the marketing budgets – but it has quietly hosted Alps Tour events for years and offers some of the cheapest green fees on the Mediterranean. This guide covers the courses worth playing, what they actually cost, how […]

Course Reviews

Golf in Croatia: What You Can Actually Play, and What to Expect

Croatia gets mentioned in the same breath as Portugal, Spain, and Turkey when golf travel destinations come up, but the comparison doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Croatia has one golf resort built to the standard that international golfers expect, a historic curiosity on a national park island, and a scattering of nine-hole and executive courses […]

Destinations

The Best Golf Courses Around Berlin: A Practical Guide

Berlin isn’t a city golfers think of first when planning a European trip, and that’s partly fair — Brandenburg’s flat, forested terrain doesn’t produce the dramatic coastal holes you’ll find in the Algarve or Costa Brava. But the region around Berlin has more than 20 golf clubs, several of them designed by major-championship winners, and […]

Course Reviews

The Best Golf Courses Around London: A Practical Guide

London doesn’t have a golf coast, but it sits inside the densest concentration of heathland golf in the world. Within roughly 50 minutes of the city, the Surrey and Berkshire “stockbroker belt” holds a cluster of Harry Colt and Herbert Fowler designs from golf’s Edwardian golden age, still playing on the same sandy, heather-lined ground […]

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Golf in Seychelles: A Tropical Frontier for the Sport

Seychelles built its reputation on granite boulders, palm-fringed beaches, and water so clear it looks retouched. Golf was never part of that story in the way it is in Mauritius or the Algarve. And yet, tucked into the folds of two very different islands, the archipelago holds one of the more improbable rounds in world […]

Course Reviews

Golf in Egypt: Pyramids, the Red Sea, and Some of Africa’s Most Underrated Fairways

Egypt is not the first name that comes up when golfers swap notes on winter sun destinations — Spain, Portugal, and the UAE usually take that spotlight. But quietly, over the past three decades, Egypt has built one of the most distinctive golf landscapes on earth: championship courses shaped by Gary Player, Nick Faldo, and […]

Course Reviews

Le Golf National Unveils Its New Identity: Inside the Albatros Course’s Long-Awaited Reopening

For nearly two years, the Albatros course at Le Golf National has sat quiet — a rare pause for a venue that hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup and the golf events of the 2024 Paris Olympics within the space of six extraordinary summers. On September 1, 2026, that silence ends. The Albatros reopens not as […]