Ruo do Sisto, Paramos,
Espinho, Oporto 4500
Office
+351 227 342 008Pro shop
+351 227 342 008Fax
+351 227 346 895Website
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Miguel Valença and Ricardo Garcia (Golf Professionals).Academy
Oporto Golf Club Academy.The Course:
18 holes. Links course Relatively flat terrain - easy to walk.
Surroundings:
Flat coastal duneland and local railway.
Designer:
Portugal's 15th best course (Golf World, 2022).
Continental Europe's 132nd best course (Golf World, 2023).
40.985258
-8.641704
3 km S of Espinho / 25 km S of Porto.
Oporto Golf Club is home to one of continental Europe's oldest golf courses and one of Portugal's most revered clubs. Located just 20 km south of the famed city of Porto (also known as "o Porto"), this sand-based links course is set behind a ridge of dunes, out of sight of the ocean.
As you journey round the two nine-hole loops, there's certainly a traditional feel to these relatively easy-going links. There's plenty of room beyond the good-width, relatively flat fairways. The light rough on the small rippling dunes that separate the holes shouldn't pose too many ball-finding problems. Solid bunkering and not overly large greens are a constant.
Only on a few occasions do the small umbrella pines and coastal vegetation make their presence felt. Water doesn't play too big a part in proceedings until the final quartet of holes, which offers the most interesting stretch of the layout. The par-4 15th and 17th, par-3 16th and par-5 18th are all stoutly defended by a variety of water ditches and small ponds.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends. Closed on Mondays.
Must book in advance. Proof of handicap required. Maximum handicap: men 28, women 36.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].
Players generally walk this course. Caddies available. A caddie will be assigned to flights composed entirely of non-members.
Limited
Oporto GC was founded in 1890 by 24 Englishmen living in the city of "o Porto" ("the Porto"), which lies on the estuary of the famous Douro River. Several of the original members were connected to the port wine trade that has flourished between Portugal and Britain for at least seven centuries. A by-product of this trade, is that English is widely spoken as a second language in Porto and surrounds.
The club's founder members originally called themselves the "Porto Niblicks", and their makeshift nine-hole course was dubbed the "St Skeff Links". Since 1891 the members have vied for the Skeffington Cup, named after founder member Charles Neville Skeffington. The club's name changed to Oporto Golf Club in 1900, when the course was redesigned and moved a little farther south. It became an 18-hole layout in 1934.
Oporto GC is home to the fourth oldest golf course in continental Europe. France is home to the three oldest: Pau (1856), Dinard (1887) and Biarritz-Le Phare (1888). Royal Antwerp (1888) and Ugolino Firenze (1889) are also older than Oporto, but both had to relocate from their original locations.
Portugal's 15th best course (Golf World, 2022).
Continental Europe's 132nd best course (Golf World, 2025).
Rua 6, 4500-357 Espinho, Portugal.
+351 (0)227 331 000
Visit websiteAcross the boardwalk from Baía Beach on the Atlantic Ocean, this laid-back hotel is a 2-minute walk from restaurants and bars, and a 5-minute walk from Espinho train station.
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