Real Club Valderrama is without doubt the most famous golf course in the Costa del Sol. Having hosted many European Tour events and who will forget the 32nd Ryder Cup in 1997. The first time the trophy was played for on continental Europe.
The Par 71 Championship Course measures 6356 metres from the professional tees. The fairways have been described by tour professionals and leading golf writers as the best in Europe, if not the world. It is not an easy course, nor is it the cheapest!!!! It is though a course on everyone’s “bucket list” to play.
The course was designed in 1974 by Robert Trent Jones, Sr, one of the great golf course architects, and was originally known as Sotogrande New. In 1981 its name was changed to Las Aves. Finally, Ortiz-Patiño renamed the course Valderrama, after the ancient estate on which the land is situated.
