Welcome
EDITORS LETTER
Welcome to Destination Golf
Portugal Magazine 2015.
Destination Golf Portugal magazine was launched to provide a definitive
guide to golf in Portugal, educating the thousands of golfers that travel
to Portugal each year about where to play, where to stay and where to
find the best deals. Since its launch in 2010, Destination Golf Portugal
magazine has established itself as the Official voice of Portuguese golf
tourism in UK & Ireland, reaching over 1 million golfers.
We are delighted to bring you our Edition for 2015/16, published in close
association with our friends in the Portuguese National Tourist Office
and the various regional tourism offices in Portugal.
Over the following 96-pages, we visit nine different golf destinations
across the islands of Madeira and the Azores; and the popular mainland
destinations of the Algarve, Lisbon and Porto e Norte.
There’s no doubt that Portugal has been a magnet for golf tourism over
the past three decades. It now is one of the leading golf destinations
in the World, with award winning golf courses and golf hotels dotted
around the Country. Travelling golfers have over eighty golf courses to
choose from, with Championship designs by renowned architects such
as Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros and Robert Trent Jones, who used the
natural Portuguese terrain and coastline to create their works of art.
Across the last six years Destination Golf representatives have travelled
to all four corners of Portugal with their clubs in tow. It is a fascinating
country for tourism, and the travelling golfer is spoilt with a wealth
of choice. In this publication we will provide a short review of every
course, but it’s our “Editors Choice” recommendations that deserve your
best attention.
Enjoy Portugal and enjoy this golf guide.
Dermot Synnott
Publisher
Destination Golf Media Ltd.
Destination Golf Media Ltd
184 Charlesland Wood
Greystones
Co Wicklow
Ireland
[email protected]
www.destinationgolf.ie
PUBLISHER
Dermot Synnott
DIRECTOR
Vincent Synnott
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
Darren Maguire
CREDIT CONTROLLER
Mallory Courell
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Helen Duggan
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
Albert Ferrer (Spain)
Ronald Montesano (USA)
Peter Barnes (UK)
Gene Oberto (Sweden)
Gianni Attanasio (Italy)
David Cooney (China)
Maarten Hageman (Netherlands)
Benjamin Oosterveer (Tunisia & Morocco)
Kevin Markham (Ireland)
PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITORIAL
Wines from Portugal
Turismo de Portugal
Associação Turismo do Algarve
Visit Lisboa
Visit Cascais
Madeira Islands Tourism
Azores Golf Islands
Turismo do Porto e Norte
IAGTO
FRONT COVER
Oceanico Amendoeira
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