It is one of only a few courses in the world with 18 sets of tees and fairways, but with 27 greens. This means players are able to enjoy the same course time and time again with slightly different challenges. Holes 1 through 4 and 14 through 18 have two greens each, and your approach to each hole will vary depending on which greens are in play.
Even though this course has hosted the Portuguese Ladies Open on a number of occasions, Pestana Gramacho is well-known as a championship course that is playable for all abilities, even those with a very high handicap.
Apart from the fantastic design, Fream and Price managed to incorporate the traditional landscape into the layout by using the natural stone outcrops, historical dry stone walling and existing ancient trees, along with some artfully sculpted lakes and bunkers.
Experienced golfers will certainly know that they have played a superb golf course with its testing par of 71 and a tiger tee length of over 6,700 yards.
STATISTICS
TEES
Championship Tees - 6107 Meters (6678 Yards)
White Tees - 5532 Meters (6049 Yards)
Yellow Tees - 5212 Meters (5699 Yards)
Red Tees - 4777 Meters (5224 Yards)
Par: 72
Course Opened in: 1991
Designer: Ronald Fream and Nick Price
Hosted Events: The Portuguese Ladies Open in 2005 and 2007
First out @0730. Love the course. Will be back next year
As usual the course was well presented with the greens running beautifully. Nice pace around the course. Always a pleasure to play
Lovely course tough greens
We enjoyed this course
We found the greens, and in particular the pin positions really tricky. Enjoyed it though. Some lovely holes.
Because we played at a quiet time we had a good round with no hold ups until the last couple of holes. Lovely course and conditions very good considering they had been a lot of rain for a few days. Would recommend.
Definitely the best course of the Pestana group and the fairways were lovely and greens in great condition. Picturesque rolling hills with great views in an amazing setting. Very enjoyable round and we will certainly return.
Great layout,with lots of good holes.Could do with a course marshal to keep groups moving on the second nine.Watch the bar prices!
Don't expect to play as a 2ball. Very busy even during the week. Locals and members very ignorant and demand play through, even though your keeping up with group in front. Avoid at weekends.
Lovely course very enjoyable and was in great condition.
As one of pestana supposed premier course this was ver disappointing. Oil took over 5 hours to get round and loads of un repaired pitch marks on most of the greens. The setting and layout were excellent but sadly spoilt by the waiting at every tee
Lovely course,well planned out with some very tricky holes,probably the best of the 4 courses.
Loved this course lots of hazards but good golf rewarded some amazing holes terrific par 3's and a amazing finishing hlle par 5 with green in front of bar balcony.
The Gramacho course was great fun. It was nice to play holes that were not just straight and long and the greens were excellent. The facilities were very good and the course is good value for money. The caddy master was great and very organised, however the same cannot be said for the rest of the staff who just do not seem interested.
Really nice course to play both of us enjoyed it greens were good and big so had a chance to hit the greens
Course good greens very poor disease in greens a lot of fungi
Very enjoyable, buggies are expensive
Enjoyed the course but you do need a buggy.
No one on it apart from us or that's how it felt
Lovely course very enjoyable.
Well maintained course
Good holiday golf layout. One of our group is an occasional golfer and was able to negotiate the course and remain competitive. Some cracking holes particularly 17 & 18.
Staff friendly, lovely views, great course - loved it
Lovely golf course which is golf friendly fairways like carpet and great greens.
We were a party of 7 ranging from a handicap of 9 through to 28. I personally loved the course. It was a good test with some some holes offering lovely views. The only negative was the bunkers that seemed all to be very hard sand.
Love this course, good greens and difficult enough to make it interesting for all our group. Club house was very good and best pro shop of the ones we played. Great for watching players coming up the 18th. Would recommend.
Easier than it looked. Our best round of the week
A picturesque course but whilst open had enough difficulty with uphill greens and hidden greens to keep you focused. This was most evident on the ever undulating greens, where no put seemed straight.
Great course very challenging at times.
It’s our favourite course (12). One of the best finishing holes in my opinion in golf. Every hole is different and challenging and a class act.
Hilly course that had me puffing a few times! (second time I played it I had a buggy) Wide fairways, some fairly long walks green to tees, interesting bunker systems, picturesque. Challenging and enjoyable. Lovely staff in the clubhouse.
Nice course. Great condition, challenging greens and plenty of bunkers to avoid. Some picturesque holes.
this is a great course, friendly staff, Roberto specially, again same comment on buggy's etc.
Wonderful course, great fun as always. Slow, but not so slow that it affected our enjoyment (we're used to 4hrs max in Scotland so just needed to accept it!).
you can understand why this course has been on the European tour. this course was fantastic with great looking and tricky holes. the whole lay out was fantastic, with the surrounding villas and condos, which by the way are stunning architectural buildings. my only downfall was.. not only my golf game stunk but the change of greens threw us with our yardage watches giving us wrong info.. but it is a minor thing and apart from that what an experience it was to play some great courses in a stunning country. can't thank yourgolftravel enough for organising it all. looking forward to next year now
Very nice, competent and friendly staff, a slick operation.
Loved it , will manage to par that dammned 18 th next year !!
The greens were very fast but true and that goes for all of them
held up by a group who walked in at the 3rd hole.
Lovely course. Interesting with water and different levels. We walked on this course which I prefer to buggy. Although busy there were no hold ups . Pleasant restaurant and pro shop. Will play here again on our next golfing trip to Algarve.
Unable to get an earlier tee time, so only managed 15 holes as the light was fading and the going was slow.
Very enjoyable going back 27 December
The round was as quick as we wanted as we were the only players playing as the weather was harendous.Contiuous rain and wind for all 18 holes, but we overcame and eventually dried out at the hotel by breakfast on the Tuesday.
Pin positions very tight in corners
Brilliant
Same comments as Pinta . We like but tees moved forward in last few years.
the best course we played
Lovely course nice steady round
Love this course !!
Loved it
Nice course but buggy's expensive.
My favourite course of the three. Love everything about it. Some treacherous greens but a great course.
Very enjoyable Golf Course. A GREAT layout with a nice variety of holes. Most of our group scored well You need to be able to play a good variety of shots. We all really enjoyed it. In fact it was every bodies favorite course of all Pestana courses We would all play it again anytime
Played this a number of times now and always first class.
Bunkers were watered too much
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