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Home > Golf > Quinta do Lago Golf > Pinheiros Altos Course
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Pinheiros Altos Course |
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A firm favourite with many a golfer visiting this part of the world! Until the recent refurbishment of the course, P. Altos was a course of two distinct nines with the outward holes undulating and set in pine covered landscape; the second nine in a contrasting lakeside setting. Ronald Fream, the American architect, created a little gem with some excellent holes filled with intricacies and subtle hazards not to mention the pristine slick greens.
As from the 1 st of January 2007, nine new holes were integrated into the existing front nine holes to form two par 36 nine holes. The existing back nine will, for now, remain the same and complete the 27 holes on offer. The beauty of the design by today's most talented Portuguese golf course architect, Jorge Santana da Silva, is not only aesthetic but strategic. It is very much "risk and reward" and it will seem that on each hole the golfer will be faced with the decision to play safe or attack. The new holes incorporate four large lakes, three of which are connected by a rambling brook and on seven of the new 9 holes the golfers ball could find a water grave! Add to this the ancient existing cork trees, the old nora, the picturesque views over the Ludo valley to the Goldra hills beyond and the several hundred strategically placed pine trees due to be planted this year and you have a truly memorable course to enjoy.
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