Golf Courses in the Area
IN addition to Valle del Este there are many other golf courses in the area. Click on the names of the golf courses listed below for more details.
Valle del Este
Marina de la Torre
Desert Springs
Playa Macenas
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Valle del Este
Course Details
Holes: 18
Par: 71
Mens: 5329 metres - 5828 yards
Ladies: 4822 metres - 5273 yards
Founded: 2002
Designed by: José Canales Galvez
Professional: Alfredo Caparros Blanes
The two words heard most by people having finished their first round at Valle del Este Golf Resort are 'spectacular' and 'challenging'. Designer Jose Canales, has managed to create a golf-course that is already considered one of the top new courses in Europe.
Is it a difficult course? With ample fairways, large receptive greens and measuring only 6300 yards of the back-tees and par 71, it should not be. Yet, somehow the course manages to extract every bit of skill from even the most seasoned of golf-pro, without ever becoming unfair for the beginning golfer.
Desert surroundings with the occasional view of the Mediterranean, rolling 
hills and steep cliffs make it visually spectacular. Its small round tee-boxes, as many as six on some holes, provide daunting looking carries. However, because most tee-shots are downhill, they seem much tougher on the eye that on the swing.
Maintained to the highest standards, together with the regions famed climate, they make Valle del Este a golf-course that can be played all year round, making it an unforgettable experience.
Marina de la Torre (about 10 minutes drive away)
Course Details
Holes: 18
Par: 72
Mens: 5092 metres - 5569 yards
Ladies: 4448 metres - 4864 yards
Founded: 2000
Designed by: Ramón Espinosa
Professional: Vicente Cotino Escriva
This is a new and exiting golf course, surrounded by Mediterranean seas, located between Garrucha and Mojacar. Situated in the Marina de la Torre development, the course opened in the spring 2000. The relatively short 18 hole course was designed by Ramón Espinosa´s whose golf course design includes three lakes strategically situated. The course also offers wonderful and diversive views of the Mediterranean Sea and the colourful desert like landscape. Split into two distinct nine-holes on either side of the tower on top of the hill, Marina de la Torre offers a mixture of parkland and undulating terrain to test all standards of golfers. Four water lakes add further interesting delights and a brand new clubhouse completes this new attraction to Mojacar.
Desert Springs (about 25 minutes drive away)
Needing little introduction, this course is the first desert golf course in Europe, designed by Peter McEvoy, and is built to the standards of the now famous desert courses of Arizona and California. The contrast between the beautifully prepared and manicured playing areas and the arid yet vividly coloured desert, capture the very essence of desert golf. The fairways have been kept generous to ensure golfers can enjoy their game whilst being captivated by the awesome landscape and views that embrace the Indiana. However every hole has features which can be brought into play; the springs, watercourses, dry river beds, rocks and cactus areas and bunkers are strategically located to examine the skills of golf's leading players when playing off the championship tees. Desert Springs is undoubtedly a most spectacular and unique golf course to experience.
Playa Macenas (about 15 minutes drive away
The Golf course at Playa Macenas Beach & Golf Resort has been designed just like a huge verdant garden, creating an extraordinary beautiful landscape right by the sea. The course has been designed to challenge and reward golfers of all levels and boasts an original design, with natural and man-made hazards that provide and added challenge to each round. The sea views are yet another attraction, making for an unforgettable golfing experience. The course has 18 holes and is par 64. In addition to the above there are at least five other courses within an hour's drive from Valle del Este, so the golfer is really spoilt for choice!!