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There are nearly eighty golf courses in Andalucía, of which fifty are on the Costa del Sol. The fine weather allows golf to be popular all year round.

Europe’s capital of golf, the Costa Del Sol, offers a wide range of top quality courses to suit golfers of all abilities - from the technically demanding to the more straightforward. Most golf courses are within easy reach of your accommodation and nearly all golf courses have practice facilities and offer professional golf tuition.

Choose from a range of courses, such as Valderrama, one of Europe's leading golf courses.

La Duquesa Golf Club

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., La Duquesa is one of the Costa del Sol’s most varied and spectacular golf courses, and thanks to its wide fairways, it offers a reasonable challenge to golfers of all standards. The par-3 8th hole, just 129 metres, has a lofty, perched tee form whose balcony players have panoramic views over the sea and coastline. The second nine is a little more complex but the Mediterranean, Puerto de la Duquesa, Gibraltar and the mountains are always in sight and from the par-4 15th the view stretches as far as Marbella.

Estepona Golf Club

Estepona Golf offers a round of golf in a magnificent setting on a demanding course. The fairways, however, are wide and the greens are large so the secret is probably not to be too ambitious. The design uses the natural landscape set against the Sierra Bermeja mountains. There are views of the Mediterranean from most holes.

The third hole, a taboggan-run of a par-5, is a daunting prospect with the green way below and tantalisingly out of reach. A couple of hearty blows should do the trick. The par-4 10th with its high tee offers braver souls the option of going for the green 250 metres away. It’s all downhill, curving to the left, and there’s water on both sides of the green. Later you come to the par-3 14th where you are expected to thread the needle uphill to a green nearly 200 metres across a ravine. Every hole brings a new challenge. The clubhouse overlooks the 18th green and beyond to the Mediterranean. Try the excellent cuisine or buy something in the reasonably priced golf shop. Estepona is one of the Costa del Sol’s most popular golf holiday courses.