Spain By The Golf Planet Holidays Team · Golf-travel specialists since 1981 · Published 28 June 2026 Set in the hills behind Benalmádena, Golf Torrequebrada is a course that makes you earn your round. The terrain rises and falls a fair bit, 197 metres of total climb across the eighteen, and that figure tells you […]
Set in the hills behind Benalmádena, Golf Torrequebrada is a course that makes you earn your round. The terrain rises and falls a fair bit, 197 metres of total climb across the eighteen, and that figure tells you most of what you need to know before the first tee. You are walking, or rather riding, up and down the Costa del Sol foothills, not strolling a flat links. Add a prevailing north-westerly that swings across and into several holes, and the scorecard stops being the whole story. Read the slope. Read the breeze. Then pick your club.
The opening hole sets the tone, and it is the one most players will remember. It plays as a longer par five, uphill, straight into that north-westerly. The data flags it as reachable in two for the bigger hitter, so the temptation is there, but understand what you are taking on. Uphill and into the wind means the ball travels shorter than your eyes tell you. Club up. If you back yourself, commit fully to the second; if you are in two minds, lay up to a comfortable wedge number and take your par. Starting a round into a stiff breeze on a rising fairway is a stern ask, and it is one of the three toughest holes here for good reason.
The fourteenth is cut from the same cloth. Another par five that climbs, another one playing into the wind, and again listed as gettable in two if you strike it cleanly. Treat it the way you treated the first. The longer it plays, the more a smart lay-up rewards you, because a wedge third into an uphill green beats a flushed long iron that comes up short and feeds back down the slope.
The sixth is the counterweight, and a far friendlier proposition. It is a par five that runs downhill with the wind behind, so the same shot that struggled on the first and fourteenth now flies. This is where you make your numbers back. Downwind and downhill, it plays shorter than its length, very much a go-for-it hole, and the chance to turn a tough front nine into a respectable one. Take less club than the distance suggests and trust the help you are getting.
| Hole | Par | Plays | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | around a par 5 | Uphill, into the wind | The signature opener. Plays long, club up, commit or lay up |
| 6 | around a par 5 | Downhill, downwind | The scoring chance, plays short, go for it |
| 14 | around a par 5 | Uphill, into the wind | Toughest stretch, reward favours a wedge third |
| 18 | around a par 4 | Flat, into the wind | A closing hole that asks for one more solid swing into the breeze |
These pars and lengths are derived from terrain and mapping rather than the printed scorecard, so take the character as the guide and check the official card on the day.
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This one rewards the thinker more than the basher. If you enjoy working out what the slope and the wind are doing, and you can resist a green you cannot realistically hold, you will get a lot from it. Mid and lower handicappers who flight the ball will find plenty to chew on, particularly through the par fives. The walk is genuinely hilly, so a buggy is advised, and most players will want one. It keeps your legs fresh for the climbs on the first, fourteenth and the back-nine rises.
For timing, the Costa del Sol is at its best in spring and autumn. April through early June, then mid-September into November, gives you firm turf, comfortable temperatures and a wind that is usually a companion rather than a problem. High summer is playable but warm on the climbs, and the north-westerly can stiffen, which lengthens every uphill hole on the card. Book the first tee times of the day if you are going in the hotter months.
The climbing is real. At 197 metres of total ascent, this is not a course to walk if your back or knees are anything less than fully sound, and even fit players will feel the up-and-down rhythm by the closing holes. The wind compounds it: several of the longest holes climb straight into the prevailing breeze, so on a blustery day the course plays a good deal longer than the numbers suggest. Go in expecting a proper test, take the buggy, and it is a pleasure. Go in expecting a flat afternoon stroll and it will catch you out.
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