I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everyone would have to play from the rough, not just me.
Arnold Palmer
Marbella CC Golf Article
Marbella town is a close as you can get to the distinguished Marbella Golf Country Club. Driving up the palm-lined avenue, past the main gates, it’s easy to see why at Marbella CC Golf Course the emphasis is on ´Country Club` as much as golf.
Rimmed with short palm trees, even the car park is smart, with huge cream canvass sun shades installed overhead to protect windscreens from over heating in the midday sun.
Marbella CC Golf Course is a Robert Trent Jones masterpiece. 18 glorious green holes, a par 72 course stretching 6,000 meters. Many holes have views of the Mediterranean, but each of the numerous lakes and bunkers on this scenic course can be a force to be reckoned with.
The second hole, a par 5 requires a very decent drive. It’s a dogleg left but once you pass the cork trees on the left corner, the hole opens up to a long green. At the fifth hole, a good straight drive is again in order here – and more important than length on this narrow downhill par 4. Water seems to be everywhere at the fifteenth, a lake on your right, stream on your left, before you reach the undulating green. Bunkers are the main protagonists at the seventeenth par 5, where you will need to keep your shots to the right to avoid getting in the sand.
According to the club, Marbella CC Golf Course is one of the finest championship courses in Europe and was designed as a course to suit both amateurs and professional. Regardless of which category you fall into it offers players the opportunity to enjoy one of the largest green areas left along Marbella`s 26 kilometer coast. It’s a sea of green, verdant fairways and velvety greens, almost adjacent to its Eliviria neighbour, Santa Maria Golf Course – a vast UNESCO biosphere that has been carefully developed to respect nature.
In the clubhouse the staff members discreetly busy themselves in the bar and restaurant, somehow miraculously there when you want them, out of sight when you don’t. In fact the large clubhouse has a rather ´old school atmosphere, reminiscent of an aristocratic luxury country house hotel. Antique furniture and paintings adorn the hallways and huge wooden doors open into huge reception rooms. A row of enormous, floor to ceiling arched windows provide fabulous views of the green landscape towards the sea.
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