Real Club de Golf Guadalmina (Sur)
Real Club de Golf Guadalmina (Sur) · Andalucía, Málaga
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Blake Stirling and Marco Martin from Global Golf remodelled the course in 2002, when they added some internal contours to the original Arana greens and installed a significant number of new bunkers around the course, most notably on the fairways.
Laid out on much flatter terrain than the North, the wide fairways on the South course wind through stands of pine and jacaranda trees with water coming into play only now and then – though the pond at the short, par four 13th does leave a lot to be desired in terms of its fairness when catching perfectly well played tee shots.
The outward half is definitely the weaker of the two nines and back-to-back par fives on holes 6 and 7 do nothing to avoid the feeling that the front nine are a bit of a slog – Henry Cotton is reputed to have named the long 7th hole, “Tipperary” as it's a long way to go!
The much stronger back nine begins with a real rarity on the Costa – a couple of holes that actually play right beside the Mediterranean – and some hotel guests actually start at the par four 10th which is a great way to get the round underway.The 36-hole golf facility at Guadalmina was completed in 1973 with the arrival of the shorter and hillier North course, a Folco Nardi design.
The following edited extract is from “The golf courses of Javier Arana” by Alfonso Erhardt Ybarra and is reproduced here with kind permission from the author:
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