Alto Golf Club

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Played this course last week. It was an enjoyable course with quite a few well placed sand traps. The fairways were in excellent condition although the greens were probably the slowest that I've played on in Portugal. The first hole is a good testing par three surrounded by bushes and shrubs. Beware - it is easy to lose your ball! What I really found frustrating about this course was the slow play, the unwillingness of these groups to let others through and the lack of any course marshall to keep this problem in check. There were many irate golfers in front of me and at one time a backlog of four groups on the ninth tee.
Clare Purnell (clarepurnell@yahoo.com ) 6/02

Alto Golf is a friendly, relatively short golf course. It offers some natural beauty and is nicely kept but it is nothing spectacular. It does offer some nice views and from some tee boxes you can see the beach hotels of nearby Alvor and Praia da Rocha. Staff is also friendly and the restaurant offers some simple light meals. The apartments around the course really make it all look like a project which I don't particularly like. In other words, if you're staying in the area anyway, Alto Golf is worth playing. However, if you don't have much time and just want to play at one golf course in this area I recommend the Palmares Golf Course, which is just >20 minutes west in Lagos.
Lars van Gelder Hdcp 18 (lars.vangelder@wcom.nl) 08/00

This is a lovely course, well maintained in a lovely setting. It is a comaratively short course - 5683 metres off the yellows - but a difficult one SSS 73. Nearly all the fairways are sloping and there are trees planted in the middle of some of the fairways which can force you into danger, you have got to like pine trees cos if you play like me you will spend a lot of time under their branches!! While there are some water traps on the course they are easy to avoid. The par 3 ( 7th) is a test to get on the green in 1 and the 14th dogleg right are my favourites. I have now played this course 3 years in a row and have always found the staff (Carlos) to be extremely friendly. I have never found the course to be particularly crowded ( I've played the 1st week in March and this year the 1st wk in June.)
Ray Keilthy (ray@keilthy.fsnet.co.uk) 6/00

Alto is a fairly new course, and even though in a different location, is part of the Alto apartment development. This means that it can get very busy, even during the (summer) low season.

The first tee is very misleading, as it is a flat par 3 of medium length, but the green is almost completely surrounded by shrubs on the back and sides, that seems to swallow any balls that don't hold the green. Once the first hole is over the trick to the first nine is 'Keep to the right', as out of bounds and trouble always seems to be lurking on the left. The second nine tends to be a lot tighter than the first, but also a lot longer!
Alto proudly boasts the longest par 5 in Europe (supposedly), measuring 605 meters off the back tee, which appear impossible to boogie, let alone birdie or even par.
Although the course is well maintained, it is an average course and is certainly not fantastic value for money. It might be that I didn't play so well, but I did not enjoy my day here, and would recommend other courses in the vicinity, or even my favourite Parque da Floresta, which is further out.
Also the waiting on the tees can get a bit irritating, and hot.
Hacker Harrison
Marcus Harrison (Marcus.HARRISON@nwep.com) 07/99