Golf Torrequebrada sits in the hills behind Benalmádena and it makes you earn your round. The card lists eighteen holes; the ground adds 197 metres of total climb, and that figure tells you more than any yardage chart. This is Costa del Sol foothill golf, rising and falling
Golf Torrequebrada sits in the hills behind Benalmádena and it makes you earn your round. The card lists eighteen holes; the ground adds 197 metres of total climb, and that figure tells you more than any yardage chart. This is Costa del Sol foothill golf, rising and falling all day, with a prevailing north-westerly that swings across and into several of the longest holes. The scorecard is not the whole story. Read the slope, read the breeze, then pick your club. For the base, we’d put you at the Barcelo Occidental Fuengirola, a short drive along the coast with prices starting at
The opening hole sets the tone and it is the one most players remember. A longer par five, uphill, straight into that north-westerly. Big hitters can reach it in two, so the temptation is real, but be clear about what you are taking on. Uphill and into the wind, the ball travels shorter than your eyes tell you, sometimes by two clubs. 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 walk off with your par. Opening a round into a stiff breeze on a rising fairway is a stern ask, and this ranks among the three hardest holes on the course for good reason.
The fourteenth is cut from the same cloth. Another climbing par five into the wind, again gettable in two if you flush it. Treat it exactly as you treated the first. The longer it plays, the more a smart lay-up pays, because a wedge third into an uphill green beats a well-struck long iron that comes up short and feeds back down the slope.
The sixth is the counterweight. It runs downhill with the wind behind, so the same swing that laboured on the first now flies. This is where you claw your numbers back. Take less club than the distance suggests, trust the help, and go for it. A tough front nine becomes a respectable one on this hole more often than anywhere else on the card.
| 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 |
A note on the numbers. These pars and playing lengths come from terrain and mapping rather than the printed scorecard, so treat the character as the guide and check the official card on the day.
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This is a course for the thinker rather than the basher. If you enjoy working out what slope and wind are doing to a shot, and you can resist firing at a green you cannot realistically hold, you will get a great deal from it. Mid and lower handicappers who flight the ball will find plenty to chew on through the par fives. The walk is genuinely hilly, so take a buggy. Most players do, and it keeps your legs fresh for the climbs on the first, the fourteenth and the back-nine rises.
On 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 behaves more like company than opposition. High summer is playable but hot on the climbs, and the north-westerly can stiffen, which lengthens every uphill hole on the card. Book the earliest tee times if you are travelling in July or August.
If the climbing rules it out for your group, Spain has flatter golf we rate highly. Between the two big Alicante-coast resorts, our vote goes to La Finca Resort, Alicante, which starts at
The climbing is real. At 197 metres of total ascent this is not a course to walk if your back or knees are anything short of fully sound, and even fit players feel the up-and-down rhythm by the closing stretch. 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. Arrive expecting a proper test, take the buggy, and it is a pleasure. Arrive expecting a flat afternoon stroll and it will catch you out.
We arrange tee times at Golf Torrequebrada as part of a hand-built trip to Benalmádena, hotel and rounds matched to your group, with PTS protection on every booking. Fancy making a full week of Andalusia? Pair a few nights on the coast with Montecastillo Resort Hotel, Jerez, a five-star base a couple of hours to the west with its own championship golf, with rates from
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