Vale do Lobo Royal
Royal Golf Course at Vale do Lobo resort, has rolling fairways set amidst pine trees and beautiful lakes surrounded by wild flowers. Its features include the almost island green of the 9th and the famous 16th, with cliff-top carryover - one of the most celebrated golfing images in the world, which has become the veritable symbol of golf in the Algarve.|The Royal Golf Course was designed by top American golf architect Rocky Roquemore, based on original drawings made by Sir Henry Cotton. It was inaugurated in 1997.
Reception: 6:45am to 7pm(Summer) / 6pm(Winter)
Golf Clubs: Standard
Club House: With Restaurant and Snack bar
With driving range
With an Academy
Trolleys: Manual and Electric
With locker room
Pro Shop: 6:45am to 7pm(Summer) / 6pm(Winter)
Golf Lessons: Resident professionals
With putting green
Juniors: Up to 16 years oldVale do Lobo Royal - latest comments and reviews
Jennifer Rutherford
2023-09-29
Pleasant course - not sure it’s great value for money. Clubhouse great
Ronnie Carswell
2023-09-26
Very tight fairways, good greens but very disjointed layout.
John Redmond
2023-09-18
Greens very poor especially the front nine.
John Morrison
2023-09-18
Condition of the greens on the royal course compared to the ocean we're in terrible condition for those that take golf seriously.
Stuart young
2023-09-17
Greens on front 9 were in poor condition. On the back 9 they were as they should be
John Kerr
2023-09-17
Shockingly bad. Poor tees poor greens and very bad bunkers. The worst I have seen it. Not worth the money.
Branko Krmpotic
2023-09-11
17 holes with narrow fairways between homes, parking lots, streets and one spectacular ocean par 3. Well manicured golf course but soggy slow greens. Some construction activity on a couple of holes, but workers are very respectful of the players. Oh yes, lets not forget crazy rules: women also have to wear collared shirts and you cannot play from the black "member" tees - chose forward yellows ir champion whites. Score cards do not have course rating, so you cannot calculate
Guillaume Boizet
2023-09-06
Great customer experience. Really bad driving range. Course conditions: 7/10. Course experience: 7/10, disappointed by all the gardeners transiting / noise. Course: 8/10 (front 9 really boring, back 9 amazing)
Michiel Soeting
2023-09-05
Greens of both Roayl and Ocean were tyned sanded. Also fairway had several GUR areas. VdL should consider discounts in those circumstances. Also quality of bunkers varied a lot throughout the holes. Plus point: the renovated tee boxes on Royal are a big improvement.
Daniel
2023-09-05
Club was lovely, was working on the course so greens could have been better
Graeme Cox
2023-09-02
Really good - played on the 1st day having just stepped off the plane. A fair test & a good opening round
Rupert Paul
2023-08-31
The course was not in good condition- greens covered in massive pitch marks, etc. they also were sanding the tee boxes, so had to scrape them clean!
Tecnicals
*Parkland - Total except the 16th
*Undulated - With some steepish climbs on the back 9
*Buggy Recommended - yes
*Signature Hole - famous 16th , par3
*Water hazards - Yes on both 9's, easily seen from tees
*Tree Lined - Yes, with Pines
*Dogleg - Couple on the back 9
*Comments - Excellent course, one of Algarve's best
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