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The opinion of our visitors about:
FALDO AMENDOEIRA GOLF
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| Value for money: 3.05 |
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| Quality of maintenance: 4.05 |
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| Service: 3.66 |
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| Fun to play: 3.50 |
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Golf Course Map |
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FALDO AMENDOEIRA GOLF View Map
NEW: A highly expected course!
Recently opened, the Nick Faldo Golf Design project at the Amendoeira Golf Resort is an 18-hole, is a championship standard golf course and is designed with strategic play in mind. Nick Faldo is confident that his golf course is set to become a very special addition to the Algarve.
The Faldo Amendoeira Golf Course demands careful positioning to score well. Rocky outcrops, meandering watercourses and views to the distant mountains and orange groves define its essential character.
One of the finest desert-style courses
According to Sir Nick Faldo, "there’s a definite feel of Arizona about our course and this will be reflected in the many varied desert-style features that we have incorporated. In terms of strategy, this will be a course that demands – and rewards – a very thoughtful approach; this, coupled with the vastness of the landscape here, makes for a dramatic and entirely engaging round of golf.”
The ambition of being the best
As per Nick Faldo, "there are a lot of golf courses on the Algarve, but Amendoeira is different to anything else.
"It offers a great colour contrast, from green to terracotta to white bunkers, all under blue skies. It looks very impressive."
"I think play these days has become too much a hit it, find it and hit it again routine. The real skill is that when you stand on the tee the golf hole shows you—tells you—what to do, and if you do what it tells you you are rewarded and if you don’t you are penalised."
"I like my courses to be challenging to whoever plays them. There might be easy holes in some places, but they are a challenge because you have to think about them, and that is what I am after."
Some details about the lay-out
From the opening shot on the elevated tee on the first hole this course will present challenges for everyone.
There are a couple of downhill holes soon after the start, and, on 5, the option of a spectacular shot across the largest lake on Amendoeira. The start of the back nine takes the golfer from the high tees to the plain below before the 11th, the shortest hole on the course, takes him back into the hills before the 13th presents the highest point on the course, 50m above the plain. You can expect the back nine to be very hilly.
And as Sir Faldo says, the views from here over the entire 640 hectares of Amendoeira are commanding...but the view to the fairway is daunting!
Finally, the par 5 18th asks the golfer to thread the pinch point of bunkers left and right at 265 metres, before the green sits up in an amphitheatre in the hillside 235 metres beyond, requiring a superb strike to rise up and settle on the green.
Download the scorecard of Faldo Amendoeira Golf.
Points of Interest:
Closest golf courses: Silves Golf Course, Alamos Golf and the Amendoeira O'Connor's golf course.
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Hole Nr. 1 - Amendoeira Faldo Golf Course
Nick Faldo giving indications
Nick Faldo Amendoeira Golf
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Course Details:
Architect: Nick Faldo
Par: 72 - 18 holes
Opened in: 1st September 2008
Length: 6598 m
Handicaps: Men - 24, Ladies – 36
Greens: Bentgrass
Fairways: Bermuda
Address:
Oceanico Faldo Golf
Amendoeira Golf Resort
Morgado da Lameira
8365-023, Alcantarilha
Silves
Algarve - Portugal
+351 282320800
GPS Coordinates:
N37º08´49´´
W8º21´31´´
Location:
Close to Silves, the Resort is just 35 minutes’ drive from Faro Airport along the A22 motorway, 4 kilometres inland from the beach resort of Armação de Pêra.
HOTEL EXPERIENCE!
The Tivoli Victoria Hotel & Golf Resort, luxury 5 stars in front of Victoria Golf Course. Golf packages with Vilamoura golf courses and Faldo & O'Connor. FREE transfer from Vilamoura Hotels to Amendoeira golf courses - min. 4 golfers.
1 free in 8 golfers:
Valid from 01.11.12 to 31.10.13. Restricted conditions may apply. Contact us for details.
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Faldo Amendoeira Golf
Greenfees - Discounted prices
2013 18 Holes| Date | Jun | Jul-
Aug | Sep | Oct | | Our Prices | 137
EUR | 121
EUR | 137
EUR | 142
EUR | | Public Prices | - | - | - | - |
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