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Home > Golf Courses > Europe > Le Meridien Penina Golf & Resort (Championship course)
Le Meridien Penina Golf & Resort (Championship course)
Golf is an outdoor sport, originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. Golf is played on a tract of land known as the course which consists of a series of holes or cups. Most golf courses usually consist of nine or eighteen holes. There are several types of golf courses namely Parkland, Links, Heathland, Desert, Browns, Sand, Snow, Par3 and Executive.
Le Meridien Penina has a lush tree lined Championship Course nestled in the wooded hinterland on the central part of the Algarve coast, at the outskirts of Portimao. Sir Henry Cotton’s course was the first course to be built in Algarve in 1966. This prestigious course has hosted seven Portuguese Opens and it ranked amongst Europe’s Top 100 and is affiliated to The Finest Golf Clubs of the World and a member of New York Audubon Society's Wild Life Sanctuary System for golf courses.
The course, upgraded in 1995, maintained its original splendor of respecting the spirit of the original Parkland layout, enjoying perfect design and green keeping. Although the area is essentially flat, Cotton used the old drainage ditches of what used to be rice paddies to define several of the fairways and converted them into water hazards on others. He enlarged them at strategic places, modifying and raising the banks of the waterways to conceal the water hazards for the less cautious golfers. More than 360,000 trees were planted, giving a different character to each hole by dividing the fairways and defining the approach shots to the greens against a backdrop of tall and majestic trees.
The sequence of holes is unusual in that there are five par 5's and four of them are grouped in pairs at the start and finish of the back nine. As a result, the outward nine has a par of 35 while the inward nine has a par of 38. The Par 73 Course has 18 holes measuring 6,343 meters or 6,939 yards with a 131 slope gradient for a SSS, Standard Scratch Score of 73.7 from the championship tees.
Their goal isn't just to make the green, it's to improve the quality of the game. They desire to exceed the needs and expectations of their guests, members and landlords by maintaining superior golf facilities and providing exceptional service at a great value.
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