round and about the Courses – Campoamor
Real Club De Golf Campoamor which has stunning views from the clubhouse and superb hotel is located within a 10 minute drive from the local beaches, bars and restaurants and a 40 minute drive from Alicante airport.
The clubhouse and pro-shop facilities are excellent with stunning views of both the mountains and the sea and is an ideal place to take a coffee or beer to relax and unwind or to commiserate with each other after your round.
Unlike most of the other local courses they don’t use ‘Bermuda’ grass on the course which is not favoured by the course owners because when it is ‘dormant’ in the winter months tends to turn to a yellow/brown colour and is therefore not so aesthetically pleasing. As a result the course tends to have to be re-seeded with summer and winter grasses which does cause disruption to the course and to the general look of the course at times. The course is long even from the yellow tees at 6,198 metres (6,818 yards) with numerous right to left dog-leg holes on sloping and undulating fairways which explains the handicap ‘slope’ rating which is very high and in general provides players with 3-4 additional shots against their normal handicap.
The course management have just announced major changes to the course layout and the work will take 3 months to complete but again there will be disruption to golf during this period because holes 2,3,4,5,6, and 7 will be closed and holes 12 and 13 played twice with other short holes being added to create a par 75 course.
We will all be interested to see the amended course layout and hopefully the local golf societies will be given the opportunity to play the new layout at attractive prices.