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Club de Golf Retamares
Real Club de Golf Lomas-Bosqu
El Encín Golf Hotel
The 18-hole course at Real Club de Golf Lomas-Bosque. was designed by Robert Dean Puttman and inaugurated in 1973. The undulating front nine weaves between pines, oaks and ravines while the flat back nine holes are laid out round a large lake. The many tournaments it has hosted include the Ibergolf Trophy won by Gary Player in 1975 and the Madrid Open championship the same year. The club has a nine-hole pitch and putt course and its clubhouse has views over the course, the lake and the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains.
Thirty minutes north of Madrid, Club de Golf Retamares is a family sports club that was founded in 1993 and enjoys spectacular views of mountains and the capital. Its championship course is the only one in Madrid to have been designed by Spanish star golfer and golf course architect Jose Maria Olazabal.
The course has undergone recent renovations including the addition of five lakes to give it a total of eight, the planting of 1,200 trees, improved landscaping, watering and drainage improvements and a new network of buggy paths. Practice facilities include a large, reversible driving range while the club also has a golf school, golf training for youngsters and family sports and social facilities.
Just 20 minutes from the centre of Madrid and close to the historic UNESCO World Heritage City of Alcala de Henares – birthplace of the author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes and – El Encin Golf Hotel has an 18-hole, 72-hole course designed by renowned Robert van Hagge from design firm Hagge, Smelek and Baril that opened in 2011. El Encin has its own golf school using the latest Swing analysis systems and one of the largest driving ranges in Spain, with 100 bays. It also has an on-site, four-star hotel, the Sercotel Encin Golf Hotel, offering 39 rooms. The golf course is noted for having some of the best-value green fees in and around Madrid.
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