Larrabea Golf Club
Larrabea Golf Club · Norte
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Larrabea was founded on February 23rd, 1988. A group of local golf enthusiasts hired José (Pepe) Gancedo to design a golf course on a small property. The 18-hole golf course opened in 1991, keeping as a clubhouse the 19th-century house the property already had.
Gancedo also kept many of the trees the property had, such as the 2 lines of trees (pines and two sequoias close to the clubhouse) that worked as the entrance to the house and are now to the right of the 9th fairway and to the left of the 18th fairway that run parallel.
Larrabea is a classic northern Spain course, a parkland course with a lot of trees, but most of them are just on the sides of the fairways separating the holes and are not really in play. It is a par-72 course with 2 loops that start and finish at the clubhouse, it has a classic layout with 2 par-3s, 2 par-5s and 5 par-4s in each nine. There are elevation changes throughout the whole course, but the slopes are mainly gentle.
What is not gentle is the first hole, a long par-4 with a tight tee shot. It is one of the hardest holes in the course. The first 4 holes (par-4, par-4, par-3 and par-5) are hard, but if you have a nice run on them you will enjoy the course.
The par-5s in the first nine require longer tee shots than in the second nine where you can actually not use the driver from the tee and still make a par, if you know where to go.
Nº 40 de España · Top 100 Golf Courses
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