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Vale do Lobo Royal

Opened 1997 by Rocky Roquemore from Cotton’s drawings. Home of the cliff-top 16th, the photographed Algarve par 3, not the Ocean course.

Holes
18
PariExpected shots for a good player to finish the whole course. Most 18-hole courses are par 72.
72
Designer
Rocky Roquemore
1997
Company
Vale do Lobo
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Course notes

About the course

The 18 hole championship Vale do Lobo Royal Golf Course is a sister to the Ocean Course. This course has combined several existing holes from the original Vale do Lobo Course and introduced some special interesting new holes. The layout of the course is skillful planned with a mixture of challenges slowly building up to a finally one on the eighteenth. The famous Par 3 seventh hole from the old days is now the spectacular sixteenth on this new course. The closing eighteenth is a tricky hole on which to finish, with its narrow fairway and a deceptive green.

Facilities

  • Putting green
  • Chipping green
  • Practice net
  • Pro shop
  • Swimming pool
  • Tennis
  • Tennis academy
  • Restaurant & bar

Description and facilities from AlgarveGolf.net.

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How the course plays

Par mixiPar is how many shots a good player is expected to take. A par 3 is short, a par 4 medium, a par 5 long.

6,059 m

White · Par 72

  • Par 33
  • Par 412
  • Par 53

What stands out

Longest hole
Hole 11 · 494 m · Par 5
Stroke index 1iThe hole officially ranked as the hardest on the course (stroke index 1).
Hole 3 · Par 4
HoleNineiWhich half of the course. OUT is holes 1–9, IN is 10–18.PariExpected shots on that hole.SIiStroke index: 1 is the hardest hole on the course, 18 the easiest.WhiteiLength of the hole from the white tees, in metres.
1OUT510393 m
2OUT415292 m
3OUT41390 m
4OUT44317 m
5OUT513467 m
6OUT47395 m
7OUT311156 m
8OUT43388 m
9OUT312153 m
10IN42337 m
11IN514494 m
12IN418336 m
13IN416363 m
14IN48360 m
15IN46307 m
16IN35215 m
17IN417370 m
18IN49326 m

Hole lengthsiEach bar is one hole. A longer bar means a longer hole. Colour is the par: 3, 4 or 5.

  • Par 3
  • Par 4
  • Par 5

OUT

  • 1393 m
  • 2292 m
  • 3SI 1390 m
  • 4SI 4317 m
  • 5467 m
  • 6395 m
  • 7156 m
  • 8SI 3388 m
  • 9153 m

IN

  • 10SI 2337 m
  • 11494 m
  • 12336 m
  • 13363 m
  • 14360 m
  • 15SI 6307 m
  • 16SI 5215 m
  • 17370 m
  • 18326 m

From the teesiTees are the starting points. White is the usual full length; yellow and red start closer to the green.

  • White6,059 m
  • Yellow5,677 m
  • Red4,909 m

Front and backiA round is 18 holes in two groups of 9. This compares how long each nine is.

  • OUT · Par 362,951 m
  • IN · Par 363,108 m

Against this guideiHow long an 18-hole round is here, compared with the middle course in this Sortami guide. Not an official ranking.

  • This course6,059 m
  • Guide median6,157 m

Scorecard metres from AlgarveGolf.net.

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