Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri
Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri · Norte, Bilbao
Por Top 100 Golf Courses ·
Architect Javier Arana, a Real Neguri member, was asked by the club to design its new course and he duly obliged, routing the fairways around 65 hectares of a large estate in such a way that they were able to comfortably co-exist with residential plots which had been set aside to fund the golf project.
Measuring 6,900 yards from the championship tees, the course is laid out in two loops of nine that each end close to the clubhouse. It is a golfing layout for the connoisseur, with wide fairways, enormous greens and minimal greenside bunkering.
Some of the holes on the property sit along the cliff tops, two hundred feet above sea level, and there are fine vistas of the Cantabrian Sea to be glimpsed through the trees.
One of the best holes on the course is the 211-yard, par three 14th which is played uphill to a green protected by a single bunker – but what an intimidating sand trap that solitary hazard is, with its steep face visible from the tee, sitting right in front of the raised putting surface.
The club has only hosted one professional championship of note (the 1968 Spanish Open, won by Australian Bob Shaw) but the course has been used for a number of important national amateur championships: six times for men (the last in 2010) and five times for ladies (the last in 2007).
Nº 6 de España · Top 100 Golf Courses
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