After his success designing the Vale de Pinta course, American Ronald Fream teamed up with the former world No. 1 golfer Nick Price from Zimbabwe to create the unique design of Gramacho.
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
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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