Costa Brava Golf Courses

Golf is one of the more popular activities to participate in the Costa Brava, great new layer are appearing each year and the variety of where to amusement is getting just as difficult as generating a 'hole-in-one'.

A variety of the best are detailed below:

Central Costa Brava

Club de Golf Girona

GOLF GIRONA is an 18-hole, par 72 golf encircling designed by the prestigious English architect F.W. Hawtree, seeded entirely with Penncross, the best quality grass for playing golf.

A circuit that is entirely adapted to its natural surroundings, without any antennas, power lines or interstate crossing it, featuring an advanced sprinkling system using regenerated water from Girona's distillation plant, and meeting the mass up-to-date environmental standards.


The top nine pothole are extremely competitive - their design requires gambler to use all the bat in their bags. The bottom nine are simply spectacular, with all the tees set atop walls built with Girona stone, offering impressive panoramic views of the fairways. It is a true satisfaction to follow the flight of the ball towards its destination, and encourages lots gigolo to take out their woods. When Mr. Hawtree designed this part of the course, he probably wanted athlete to sense as good as possible after owning completed the rigorous vertex nine.

Emporda Golf club

The Emporda Golf circuit offers a total of 36 holes, divided into two separate 18-hole courses: Links and Forest. The course was designed by Robert von Hagge, who chose to integrate a links-style circuit with two large lakes, dunes and waviness bunkers into a classic Mediterranean landscape replete with dense, manicured pine stands and spacious fairways. To this end, he was able to profits full odds of the natural splendor of the backdrop itself: stunning El Baix Emporda in the bosom of the Costa Brava region.

With the inauguration of the final 9 holes, the course came to submissiveness a total of two separate 18-hole courses. The first, called LINKS, spans dunes and lakes in a behavior reminiscent of the world-famous greens of Scotland. The second, FOREST, is more Mediterranean in behavior and winds invitingly through pine trees and lakes.

The Emporda Golf  has been chosen as one of the Top Ten Golf Courses in Spain, recognized by the prestigious "Peugeot Guide" which has granted us a objective of 17/20 in the ranking of the 100 best golf courses. Furthermore, the famous American journal "Golf World" has placed us in standpoint 13 of the best courses in Spain. EG was made the permanent direction for the PGA Pre-Qualifying School II European Tour and, since 2002-2003, has hosted the PGA Qualifying School European Tour Final and the Peugeot Tour Emporda Golf in 2006 and 2007.

Golf Platja de Pals

Under the management of the English architect Mr. Fred Hawtree, who from the very beginning worked roughly with the plans of the Parera-Coll family. The entrepreneur displayed a marked esteem for the environment, up to the point where they did not allow a single pine tree to be felled unless it had been marked beforehand

The first gap on the first Costa Brava golf encircling were inaugurated in the summer of 1966, and soon after, in 1968 the extension of the course was undertaken with nine holes more until the 18 statute cavity stipulation was fulfilled. The new law orbit was inaugurated in 1970 with the ritual of the "Spanish International Amateur Championship". Two age later, the Golf Platja de Pals, held the "1972 Spanish Open".

Since then the course has been considered as one of the finest in Spain thanks to its formatting and construction, and it has been the venue of numerous international competitions.

The North Coast

Peralada Golf Club

An outstanding 18-hole par 71 encircling with a 6,071 rhythm layout and 4 tees boxes per hole. With few slopes and different areas with lakes, trees and lush manicured gardens it is a suitable course for trifler of all levels.

It combination in perfectly with its surroundings, entity environmental conservation and nature watchman present all along the area. It was the first European golf circuit to hold the UE Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) certificate.

From its opening in 1993 it has been awarded as the best golf encircling of the Costa Brava on many occasions and the Emerging Golf Destination of 2000 -with the other Costa Brava-Girona Golf Association golf courses- by IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators).

It has welcomed lots contest and tournaments of the highest level such as the Open Catalonia 95, the Pre-Qualifiying School PGA experiment and the Seniors Qualifying School.

Torremirona Golf Club

An exclusive 18 hole, championship golf course, designed and immaculately maintained throughout the year, offers the golfer spectacular views whilst steering the various lakes and undulating greens.

The South Coast

Club de Golf Costa Brava

The 18-hole Golf course inaugurated in 1968 was designed by Hamilton Stutt & Co. It combines a very technical course in the first round with a more relaxed one in the second. The first nine holes, surrounded by pine and cork oak forests, differ from the other nine located on the flat with very wide fairways, leading to the 18th hole, below the Casa Club, a typical 1841 Catalan farmhouse.



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