Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Resorts in Spain – 30-11

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What are the best golf resorts in Spain? The Golf World Top 100 panel ranks and rates them. 

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Our Golf World Top 100 Golf Resorts in Spain ranking aims to help you make an informed choice the next time you are pondering a nice, warm break.

Head over to our ‘How we did it‘ for more information on the criteria we used to rank the destinations.

Before you start planning your trip to Spain, be sure to check out our guides to the country’s best courses, along with our rankings Europe’s best courses, best new golf courses and the continent’s best golf resorts.

Of course, if you’re not much of a traveller (and who has been for the last two years), we’ve also got your covered with rankings of the best courses in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, along with the best links, most fun courses, best courses you can play £60 and less and the best golf resorts in Great Britain and Ireland.

Please do feed back where you feel we’re right and, more likely, where you think we’ve gone wrong. We’d love to hear from you via email, on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

But for now, let’s begin our countdown of Spain’s best golf resorts. 

Chris Bertram, Golf World Top 100 Editor

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Golf World Top 100: Best Resorts in Spain 30-11

30. Valle del Este

Vera, Almeria

Course 24.9 Accommodation 18.8 Amenities 19.0 Setting 11.6 Total 74.3

A course by José Canales from 2003 allied to a chic hotel with golf views from all rooms.

29. Guadalmina

Marbella, Andalucia

Courses 26.8 Accommodation 17.4 Amenities 19.1 Setting 11.5 Total 74.8

Plenty of golf here, including a Top 70 course as well as a neat Marbella hotel.

28. La Sella

Denia, Valencia

Course 25.3 Accommodation 18.4 Amenities 20.0 Setting 11.3 Total 75.0

A refurbished Marriott hotel is the headline act at this Costa Blanca complex.

27. Parador Malaga

Malaga, Andalucia

Course 27.8 Accommodation 17.6 Amenities 18.1 Setting 11.5 Total 75.0

A course with pedigree that’s in our Top 70, plus a nice hotel on the coast.

26. Las Americas

Tenerife

Course 24.8 Accommodation 18.7 Amenities 20.0 Setting 11.5 Total 75.0

Tenerife resort with a presentable parkland-style course that is overlooked by the well-appointed Las Madrigueras hotel.

25. El Encin

Madrid

Course 25.8 Accommodation 18.6 Amenities 19.1 Setting 11.5 Total 75.0

The capital’s top play-and-stay option is a modern, Tour-calibre option.

24. Tecina

La Gomera

Course 27.6 Accommodation 18.0 Amenities 16.6 Setting 13.8 Total 76.0

Awesome course with spellbinding views and a nice on-site hotel, Le Jardin, that naturally also enjoys the Atlantic scenes.

23. Son Antem

Palma, Majorca

Courses 26.2 Accommodation 18.4 Amenities 20.9 Setting 10.5 Total 76.0

Two 18-hole courses, a Marriott hotel with lots of facilities and lots of spacious luxury villas make Son Antem a great option for families.

22. Barcelona Golf

Barcelona, Catalonia

Course 27.6 Accommodation 18.2 Amenities 19.1 Setting 11.1 Total 76.0

Low-profile Catalonia resort with a well-balanced hotel and course offering.

21. Peralda

Girona, Catalonia

Course 26.0 Accommodation 18.8 Amenities 19.6 Setting 11.6 Total 76.0

Nice course, even better hotel – it specialises in fine food and wine… including a wine spa! Great for couples and ladies’ groups.

20. Desert Springs

Almanzora

Course 26.9 Accommodation 17.2 Amenities 19.5 Setting 12.5 Total 76.1

The driest place in Spain offers villa accommodation and a desert-style course complete with cacti… hence the name!

19. Anfi Tauro

Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria

Course 29.7 Accommodation 15.8 Amenities 18.5 Setting 12.2 Total 76.2

A course that usurps many bigger names in our Top 70 added to on-site apartments that overlook the Arizona-style course by charismatic architect Robert Von Hagge.

18. La Quinta

Marbella, Andalucia

Courses 28.0 Accommodation 18.2 Amenities 19.5 Setting 11.1 Total 76.8

Three loops of nine with no weak elements, plus a large, well-equipped hotel.

17. Pula

Majorca

Course 28.4 Accommodation 18.0 Amenities 18.5 Setting 11.9 Total 76.8

Neat, low-profile Majorcan retreat with a fine course and delightful hotel.

16. San Roque

Sotogrande, Andalucia

Courses 33.5 Accommodation 16.3 Amenities 15.1 Setting 12.5 Total 77.4

Its suites aren’t well known but did host the Ryder Cup teams of 1997! So this is mainly a golf offering – with two Top 70 courses.

15. Montecastillo

Jerez, Cadiz

Course 30.0 Accommodation 17.6 Amenities 19.4 Setting 11.6 Total 78.6

A luxury hotel added to a Tour-quality course at this Jerez-based complex. Doesn’t quite get the pulses racing as it used to, but a fine option nonetheless.

14. Abama

Adeje, Tenerife

Course 28.2 Accommodation 17.9 Amenities 19.6 Setting 13.0 Total 78.7

The most distinctive hotel in the whole list? Very possibly. This Moorish building houses fabulous accommodation that complements a top-70 course.

13. Las Colinas

Alicante, Valencia

Course 31.3 Accommodation 18.7 Amenities 16.7 Setting 12.0 Total 78.7

Very easy to summarise; a great option if you want to play a fine course and stay in uber-chic apartments with pools. Just don’t expect loads of non-golf facilities.

12. La Finca

Alicante, Valencia

Courses 31.0 Accommodation 17.7 Amenities 19.5 Setting 11.6 Total 79.8

The best golf resort in Spain you’ve never heard of? With three courses – led by a Spain Top 70 entry – added to a five-star hotel and you have one of Europe’s best.

11. Emporda

Torroella, Catalonia

Courses 32.0 Accommodation 17.4 Amenities 19.5 Setting 11.6 Total 80.5

A lot going on here both on and off the course, so expect a rise when we revise this list. Contrasting courses and a hotel whose refurbishment we can’t wait to see.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Bertram is the Golf World Top 100 Editor.

He was born and brought up in Dumfriesshire and has been a sports journalist since 1996, initially as a junior writer with National Club Golfer magazine.

Chris then spent four years writing about football and rugby union for the Press Association but returned to be Editor and then Publisher of NCG before joining Golf World and Today’s Golfer as Senior Production Editor.

He has been freelance since 2010 and when he is not playing and writing about the world’s finest golf courses, he works for BBC Sport.

A keen all-round sportsman, Chris plays off 11 – which could be a little better if it wasn’t for hilariously poor lag putting which has to be seen to be believed.