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Jean
Baines
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 7th Mar 2025 Pinheiros Altos We enjoyed our game here, the greens were a little slow. Staff very friendly. Some lovely holes. Would play it again. |
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Max
from Switzerland
on Sat, 1st Mar 2025 Very disappointing and surprising When i made thé reservation for 11h i was told that 9h06 was the closest possibility as there were always 4 balls without any chance to play closer to 11h. I was astonished to realize in the course that there were many 2 balls in front. Myself playing behind. When I asked the starters why they did not arrange 4 balls all the way thé answer was that many people did not want to play with others and they would allow them to play 2 balls despite the affluence just to keep them happy. I found this reasoning irrespectful for visitors and it certainly did not help à fluent game. Very disappointing and irrespectful behavior. I will not return |
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Neil
from United Kingdom
on Sun, 2nd Feb 2025 Highly recommend Very well presented course with immaculate fairways and greens beautiful surroundings and a lovely clubhouse and friendly atmosphere |
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Peter
from United Kingdom
on Tue, 28th Jan 2025 Great course but need a map! Lovely course (3 x 9’s) and we played Pines and Corks. To say it was end of January and there had been quite a lot of rain the course was in quite good condition. They desperately need to Improve signage on the course moving from green to tee. Something so simple yet it would make a huge difference. |
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Stuart
from United Kingdom
on Tue, 22nd Oct 2024 Needs work Greens were poor, fairways also patchy. Simple work like strimming around tee boxes not done so course looks untidy. Played 6 courses in Algarve and this was bottom of the lust |
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Julian
from Portugal
on Fri, 18th Oct 2024 Avoid playing the Olive 9 holes Played the Olive and Pines 9’s. Clearly the club has a problem on the Olive 9 holes as it is in poor condition with a lot of irrigation maintenance. Pines 9 was in better condition and a more interesting layout. |
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Claire
from Ireland
on Tue, 15th Oct 2024 Shocking Shocking, greens full of disease, badly needs to invest money! |
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Mark
from Gibraltar
on Thu, 10th Oct 2024 PINHEIROS ALTOS GOLF COURSE Nice club house but course is in poor condition....scabby greens and poor maintenence of paths ...wouldn't play it again!! |
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Roland
from Switzerland
on Tue, 8th Oct 2024 Greens on Corks Course are worse |
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Andrew
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 27th Sep 2024 Inferior Version Beautiful setting. Disappointing maintenance of a course that by rights should be the best in the Algarve. Challenging, but not stupidly so, every hole is different and if one is playing well then scoring is simple. Lack is f care and attention have turned it into an inferior version of itself. So sad from my perspective as this was my favourite course on the Alharve |
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James
Redfern
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 13th Sep 2024 Good course quite difficult |
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Craig
from Sweden
on Fri, 13th Sep 2024 Don't play it! The loops need a lot of work. The greens are frankly awful, invaded by alien grass, the putts spent more time in the air than on the grass. Not worth the money and should hope for a refund. The bunkers don't have sand, just mud, really let's itself dow The course generally needs big investment. To be fair, the Pines is a nice nine, but still let down by the greens. At the moment spend another €50 and go somewhere else. |
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Brendan
from Ireland
on Mon, 9th Sep 2024 Would not hurry back Played the course last Friday, 6th September. Course was not in good condition. Tee boxes poor. Fairways brown and lacking grass in a number of cases. Greens really poor. Patchy and damaged in places. Weeds everywhere. |
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Nick
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 30th Aug 2024 Ocean Course Vale de Lobo. The course is in poor condition in parts with much maintenance ongoing. Reasonable deals available when booked through Sunny Algarve Golf. |
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Mark
from Portugal
on Tue, 30th Jul 2024 Good value, but course not as good as others in the region and greens in particular were not great. Friendly welcome and free range balls. Lots of water and some narrow fairways. |
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James
from United Kingdom
on Thu, 11th Jul 2024 Lovely course. Great course. At time (July) was dry and getting brown and bare but greens were still great. Lots of interesting holes. Food in clubhouse was outstanding. |
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Thomas
from United States
on Thu, 27th Jun 2024 First course we played this week and good option to warm up with. Was very dry but we went out late and got round quickly. Very enjoyable but wouldn’t be one of the best course out here. |
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Alessanbondi
from Italy
on Tue, 18th Jun 2024 Nice links Like to be in Scotland |
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Fergus
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 14th Jun 2024 Best Value For Money in the area Really well constructed course. I played a combination of the Corks and the Olives twice. Note that fairways are not sprinklered, so in summer the ground can be brown and dry with tight lies - this isn't something that bothers me in the slightest. greens & bunkers were in good condition. The clubhouse terrace is great for beers - inside isn't as charming but who needs that. Unlike Vale do Lobo and Quinta, (which I also played that week) it isn't full of huge English golf tours, so the pace is quick and the beers after are more relaxing. Olives course - good and has a that signature 8th Island green. makes for some good golf. There is loads of water but the issue I had is that a lot of that water is completely hidden by high vegetation along the edges so its far less pretty than it could be. Corks course - this was the better one for me. Really fun architecture and all the fun comes from reading the slope on your tee shots and approaches. |
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Simon
from United Kingdom
on Mon, 10th Jun 2024 Daylight robbery Worst course I’ve ever played by far. Very disappointing given the standard of the other courses in the area. Completely dried out fairways. Pitch mark riddled greens only green in places because they were sprayed with green paint. Ancient and incomplete sets of rental clubs. |
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Caroline
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 7th Jun 2024 Wouldn’t recommend. No grass at all on fairways. Buggy track needs serious refurb. Pay the extra and go elsewhere as you will be disappointed. |
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James
from United Kingdom
on Thu, 6th Jun 2024 Friendly staff but the fairways were really bad, has the course run out of water? |
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Ryan
Redman
from United Kingdom
on Mon, 27th May 2024 A challenging but fun early bird round Very welcoming and friendly staff. Good value for the early bird round. The course was in good condition and the 18 holes we played were an enjoyable challenge. Hire clubs were pretty tired but did the job. Highly recommend the egg and bacon baguette, the terrace of the clubhouse was a nice spot to have a post round drink. |
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Guy
from Canada
on Thu, 23rd May 2024 Clubs who needs love! Nice place, nice people. 30 Euros for renting old clubs who needs love is to much. No hybrids eather. They have to change the grips also. I told them but I think I was a kind of strange man! |
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Alastair
from United Kingdom
on Sun, 21st Apr 2024 Living on past glories? A good variety of holes and an interesting layout. Course not in the condition you would expect for the green fee and buggies expensive. |
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Peter
from Germany
on Wed, 6th Mar 2024 Played there Feb 23 & 29, Mar 1 & 6: Layout on all 3 courses is a bit boring, maintenance is ok, not as good as at the QDL/VDL courses. Lots of unrepaired pitchmarks, uneven cart path‘s. buggies too expensive, same as on QDL/VDL, but no GPS and some with old batteries, barely lasting 18 holes. Mats on the range hard as stone! Accomodation Look like from the 70th. Some Investments needed. Since Long time Unfinished condos along left side of Pines 8 & 9 giving a horrific scene, apparently belonging to the owner of the course as well as San Lorenzo. Improvements urgent |
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David
from United Kingdom
on Thu, 29th Feb 2024 Played the olives and the pines ,course has 3 loops of nine ,course was good but the weather wasn’t has nice few holes with water but the bunkers were troublesome for me ,good practice facilities and free balls on the range |
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Peter
Baumann
from Portugal
on Wed, 24th Jan 2024 The course condition - we played Pines and Corks - is better than a year ago (apart from a few GUR), but still doesn't come close to the two Vale do Lobo and the three Quinta do Lago courses. Pinheiros Altos is the frontrunner in terms of buggy prices only: €55 for a buggy without GPS is an outrage in view of the buggy prices at VdL (€50, incl. GPS) and QdL (€45, incl. GPS). |
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Nicholas
from United States
on Wed, 27th Dec 2023 So disappointing. Played Corks & Olives - Corks really is a very disappointing 9, with only a couple of good holes (8&9). Condition of the course was, generally, not great. Cart paths very uneven (good luck if you have a back problem!), but it was the greens that were so poor, they looked like a teenager with particularly bad acne! Either from pitch marks (unrepaired) or, more significantly extensive fungal disease made the greens, already slow, impossible to roll the ball on. Club facilities seem sadly right out of the 80’s - significant £investment is badly needed. Not able to recommend I’m afraid, especially for £100 a round each (including buggy)! |
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Ivor
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 10th Nov 2023 Condition not great, particularly the Olives. Mosquitos made it especially problematic. |
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Joseph
Mccarthy
from United States
on Sat, 14th Oct 2023 Good layout and overall good w/some dry fairways. Good layout, a few blind shots but had gps and yardage meter so was fine. Long course from whites but really enjoyed the challenge. Greens were in good condition. Played in threesome and pace was excellent (teed off at 7:36 and finished at 11:20.). Fairway had some bare spots but not Terrible as I have read in other reviews. Make agreement with others to move ball in fairways a foot or two even if not marked as ground under. Thinking the drought in region may further affect fairways and should bring price down a bit but for this time at peak October season it was decent and on par with course and conditions. (Understand the having a drought but if can’t water then prices should reflect.) I played cork nine and olives Nine. Cork is in good shape much better than olive. Overall good and would recommend. |
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Peter
from United Kingdom
on Sat, 30th Sep 2023 Great place,love the island green |
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Alan
from United Kingdom
on Mon, 11th Sep 2023 An inexpensive course by Quinta standards but needs some TLC. |
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Sylfest
Muldal
from United Kingdom
on Sun, 10th Sep 2023 50 plus Club annual golf weekend Staff at the course are very helpful, but disappointed in the condition of the greens. I would not hire their clubs again, you don’t get a matching set of irons, rusty clubs with worn out grips. Worth shopping around for these. |
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Henrik
Hausen
from Germany
on Sun, 23rd Jul 2023 Quite good 4,5/5 The Oaks(9 holes) are fantastic, very scenic an in perfect conditions. Only the car paths are practice for the muscles in the back…that’s anoying. The olives( 2nd 9holes) are very different, less maintained, open and wide with many and huge water hazards, at the end good to play. All greens in very good shape(some areas seem to be infected, but far away from the flags… |
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Glen
from United States
on Sun, 11th Jun 2023 Early bird Pinheiros Altos Great knock. Tricky and interesting greens, pretty layout. The fairways were a bit rough in places, other than that highly recommended. |
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Kieran
from United Kingdom
on Thu, 20th Apr 2023 Good course but scruffy in places |
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Kathleen
from Switzerland
on Fri, 7th Apr 2023 Okay We like the course but the signs of lack of maintenance are everywhere. The greens were decent. We started early and the pace of play was good. |
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Tony
from Portugal
on Tue, 21st Mar 2023 Nice course Nice course, all of the 3 x 9’s |
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Sylvia
from Netherlands
on Sat, 11th Mar 2023 Please stop pushing flights one after another! It's a lovely, beautiful and challenging course. Great water holes, nice shop and nice people. But please: Stop with pushing so many flights in!!! It took us five hours... Just wait 10 minutes between flight AND: have a marshal checking if flights keep up. CHECK handicaps! It takes out all the fun ánd focus ... It honestly takes out the fun ... |
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Rosemary
from Ireland
on Fri, 24th Feb 2023 Not worth the money. This course was in very poor condition. Fairways and bunkers very poor. Definitely not worth the money. €55 for a buggy way over the top. |
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Peter
from Germany
on Tue, 24th Jan 2023 Staff would earn 6 Stars at least Played Olive and Pines twice Course condition is ok, however Bunkers needs to be filled up with Sand!!! Kindness, helpfulness of all staffs is outstanding |
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Olivier
Richard
from France
on Thu, 19th Jan 2023 Very pleasant and well maintained 55€ for a buggy is quite excessive |
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James
from Russian Federation
on Fri, 23rd Dec 2022 Not busy at all, but v good course we’ll worth playing |
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Peter
from Portugal
on Mon, 28th Nov 2022 Excellent course I hadn’t played the course since the extra nine holes were added some years ago, but I must say I was impressed. We played the Pines and the Corks both of which were in excellent condition and, I think, included all the ‘new’ holes. The signage was excellent throughout and the holes provided an interesting and varied set of challenges. The staff were attentive and helpful and the lunch excellent. I would thoroughly recommend the course and will definitely return next time I travel down to the Algarve (we live at Praia d’el Rey, on Portugal’s Silver Coast). |
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Tony
from Portugal
on Thu, 24th Nov 2022 Nice 3 x 9 courses Nice 3 x 9 courses with Pines and Cork preferred over Olive. |
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Steven
Dranfield
from United States
on Thu, 10th Nov 2022 Nice track, greens good, fairways a bit spotty. Better if a bundled buggy included cost exists. Enjoyed overall. |
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Taylor
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 14th Oct 2022 Affordable and challenging. Prices do not reflect the course, very friendly staff , we’ll kept course lots of character and stunning scenery. Only down side is the lack of Respect of holiday rounders who do not repairs pitch marks on the greens. thanks for a brilliant round and great experience. |
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Stuart
from United Kingdom
on Thu, 13th Oct 2022 Always love this course |
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Duncan
from Portugal
on Sat, 8th Oct 2022 GoNice course but slow play ruined enjoyment Nice course, well maintained with good hole variety and good greens....,only complaint was spreed of play....ok we were a two ball but were happy to play in a very relaxed manner but were held up for 9 holes by a mixed four ball .....course never checked handicaps and I’d be amazed if the group in front were players or they would have either let us through or picked up more regularly after taking so many shots. Shame really as it spoilt what should have been a nice round on a good course. |
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William
from United Kingdom
on Tue, 27th Sep 2022 Bill Really enjoyed the course, and apart from a couple of greens it was in great condition. Also, our transport let us down and the staff were really helpful in accommodating us. |
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Anthony
from United Kingdom
on Mon, 26th Sep 2022 Very helpful staff. Good greens and fairways. A nice club atmosphere and good practice facilities. |
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Titine
Del Boccio
from Luxembourg
on Fri, 9th Sep 2022 Very nice place and good organisation. |
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Richard
from Russian Federation
on Tue, 30th Aug 2022 Lovely resort course Excellent resort course with water and pines focussing the mind on many holes. A few signs of lack of investment during Covid but a great layout and still plays well. |
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Steve
from United States
on Tue, 30th Aug 2022 Go play Quinta do Lago instead for the same price Course is ok, but not in the best conditions, especially the greens (see photo). For the price, go play any of the Quinta do Lago course instead. Buggy same price as other courses but not as nice. |
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Stewart
from Portugal
on Sat, 20th Aug 2022 Great track really friendly staff, especially the guy who sorts out the buggies |
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Nicholas
from United States
on Sat, 6th Aug 2022 Good course but, oh my, dire cart paths! Played Corks and Olives off the white tees. Completely different test to the yellow tees with some genuinely hole changing, challenging tee shots. Course in good shape but badly let down by the shocking state of so many of the cart paths. Back breaking in a buggy! Need to do some big maintenance quickly. |
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Gary
from United Kingdom
on Wed, 6th Jul 2022 Very dissapionting Very dissapiontiing ..course bare and needing water..told to rush as a 50 man golf society behind us. Spoilt our round a made to rush the back 9 as slot the society in.. |
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Stephen
from Canada
on Thu, 9th Jun 2022 Check the condition Great layout not the best condition unfortunately |
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Morgan
from Portugal
on Tue, 24th May 2022 Very poor condition and complete deterioration from when I played many times 7 years ago! |
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Frederic
from Portugal
on Fri, 20th May 2022 Good condition and enjoyed the round very much Frederic |
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David
from Portugal
on Mon, 16th May 2022 Pinheiros Pleasure Lovely course - played the Olives and Pines - teed off early and round in under three and a half hours. Will definitely play again. |
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Anthony
from United Kingdom
on Wed, 20th Apr 2022 A disappointing experience on a course which has significantly deteriorated since I was last there. Fairways in particular are poor, Greens okay but inconsistent. Will not be returning soon |
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GRAHAM
from United Kingdom
on Sat, 9th Apr 2022 Don’t go there Played 9 holes on the Olive course. Condition is like a cheap public course in UK. Will never play here again |
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Jan
from Portugal
on Wed, 6th Apr 2022 Top course Spectacular course. We played olive and pine and aside from vale de lobo ocean the best course so far out of the courses near vilamoura. Fairways could be a bit better. Driving range balls are free. Staff is helpful and friendly. Although a short course with many theoretical drivable par4 , this was awesome. Would be 5 star view with better fairways. |
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Michael
from United Kingdom
on Sat, 19th Mar 2022 Good but….. Course in reasonable condition. Greens good. Let down by deteriorating cart paths making for a very bumpy ride in the buggies. Pace of play good. |
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Chris
from Portugal
on Thu, 10th Feb 2022 Wonderful course, challenging for sure. |
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Tony
from Portugal
on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 Pines trumps Olive and Cork Enjoyable set of 3 x 9 hole courses. Best (for me) is Pines and then Olive. |
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Tony
from Portugal
on Wed, 26th Jan 2022 Good and very enjoyable 3 x 9 course with ranking best to least best as follows: pine - olive - cork Notwithstanding my ranking, the courses are good and enjoyable. Very good practice facilities that enhance the overall good value. |
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Iris
from Germany
on Sat, 22nd Jan 2022 Very good Lovely course very enjoyable - staff is very friendly - Food is delicious! |
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Gerlinde
from Austria
on Fri, 31st Dec 2021 We played the Cork (beautiful) and the Olive (a bit boring) nines, of course it's a first class course at the Algarve but we played better ones. Buggies very expensive - € 50. |
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Fred
Kenneally
from Portugal
on Sat, 27th Nov 2021 Enjoyable course Not a long course overall, but very enjoyable. Played the Olives and Pines courses and found the greens in superb condition. Very good par 3s. |
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Maura
from Ireland
on Thu, 4th Nov 2021 Early bird was a great option We loved this course. Challenging but very pleasant. |
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Ed
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 8th Oct 2021 very well designed golf course Challenging and very well designed golf course |
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Rowan
from United Kingdom
on Fri, 8th Oct 2021 Greens in poor condition |
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Leigh
from United Kingdom
on Wed, 6th Oct 2021 Disappointing Hmmmn. Course layout is pretty good but the greens, tees and fairways really needed a cut. Quite a few of the greens had scarring too - not that great considering that October is supposed to be peak season. Paid just over 70€ for an early bird tee time, definitely wouldn’t have been happy if paying full rate. For similar money, I would think that the VDL courses are a much better option. |
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Paul
from Ireland
on Thu, 30th Sep 2021 I love the course. I’ve played here 4 times. Needs a bit of loving. Greens look tired and bare in places. Paths need repair. |
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Sonia
from Switzerland
on Sat, 18th Sep 2021 Abwechslungsreicher Platz Abwechslungsreicher Platz und anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Einige Doglegs, ondulierte Greens und bestens durch Greenbunker verteidigt. Bunkerschläge sollten geübt sein. |
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Ross
from United Kingdom
on Sun, 5th Sep 2021 Such a shame In bad need of investment and repair. Greens borderline unplayable. |
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jason
from Portugal
on Fri, 20th Aug 2021 Bit disappointed I havnt played this course for a number of years and was really looking forward to it as it used to be one of my favourites , fairways were averAge, quite patchy , need ed watering , the greens were very poor, lots of weeds, very ‘wooly’ and lots of dead patches , only 3/4 were of standard expected, i appreciate we have had covid but as a member of a course in the UK It was clear to see the greens and course had been neglected. Not really worth the money paid |
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Paul
from United Kingdom
on Tue, 3rd Aug 2021 All good Great course pines/corks, great service. |
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Darren
from United Kingdom
on Sat, 17th Jul 2021 Golf Pin Great clubhouse and service. The course layout is good played The Corks and Olives however conditions are poor compared to other courses in the area. That all said it is cheaper than others get what you pay for I guess! |
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Pamela
Grant
from Switzerland
on Fri, 25th Jun 2021 Pleasant course but needs more care/investment Used to be a very well maintained course but now needs a lot of TLC! Pretty layout, easy course to play. Pity appears to be little investment in the course maintenance . Staff friendly and helpful. |
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Craig
from Russian Federation
on Mon, 14th Jun 2021 Average and overpriced Played the Olive and Pines.. Both has interesting designs and could be fabulous if maintained better. Course were a bit dry and patchy and tatty..looked like staff did not care about the property. The greens were true and for the most part good. Quite a few looked like they had a disease problem. Overall very overpriced compared to the Roal or ocean courses up the road. |
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Javier
from Spain
on Sun, 6th Jun 2021 Good course. Needs renewal and maintenance Interesting and challenging 3 x 9 course. Not in good condition this time |
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craig
from Portugal
on Wed, 2nd Jun 2021 poor show even for €68 I thought this was a really poor layout and easy to get lost if it's your 1st time playing the course. The greens are the worst I've played on in Portugal. I was told there were no buggies available by Algarve golf, but when I arrived there was, but only now the guy tried to charge me €50. To be fair if you want a few interesting holes and are not that bothered about the standard of the course, then crack on, otherwise, I'd advise staying well clear IMHO! (handicap 8) |
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Pieter
from Belgium
on Mon, 10th May 2021 Challenging, not very well maintained course. Average maintained course. No buggy included in contradiction with the offer (7 different reasons...). Not very helpful staff (we did not get a scorecard or any idea of flag position). Challenging course. |
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Rene
from Germany
on Sat, 8th May 2021 Friendly staff - Course in good condition Great and friendly staff! We played the red and yellow course and loved ist. |
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Kathleen
from Switzerland
on Mon, 3rd May 2021 Some interesting holes and no crowds Pinheiros's conditions have improved slightly since our last round 2 years ago. We paid a reasonable price and were pleased to not have any waiting time. Due to the continuing Corona slowdown the pace of play was quick and there was no waiting. |
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Kathleen
from Switzerland
on Thu, 29th Apr 2021 Improved! Along with San Lorenzo, this course has benefitted from the corona 'rest'. The fairways were no longer brownish and thin of grass. Lovely to play without any pressure from behind. Greens were fine - nothing to complain about. Our buggy was rather old. |
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