Alto Golf Course
Alto Golf Course located in Alvor, is a typical city resort golf course, with narrow fairways and small elevated greens, reflecting Sir Henry's Cotton taste for challenges to golfers of all levels. Under Pestana group management since 2011, Alto golf course has received, significant improvements in is general appearance with main incidence at the fairways and the greens. On the back nine you find what is considered the longest Par 5 in Europe, 591 mt from the men's tees, making Alto golf course relatively long, for a par70, 5.532 mt men's and 5.003 m from ladies tees.
Reception: Everyday from 7:45am to 8:00pm
Club House: With Restaurant and Snack bar
With driving range
With an Academy
Trolleys: Manual and Electric
Without locker room
Pro Shop: Everyday from 7:45am to 8:00pm
Golf Lessons: Tony Bennett (TB), Kevin Parry (KP)
Buggies: Without GPS
With putting green
Juniors: Up to 16 years oldAlto Golf Course - latest comments and reviews
Mark Boon
2024-12-02
Alto is a really tricky layout, small greens and you need to work the ball both ways off the tees. It plays tough and was the only course we played in 5 days where we received more shots than our handicaps. The service was good and welcoming.
The course was in good condition only let down by the fairways needing a bit of a cut and the greens had suffered with some disease which had been infilled with sand and we suffered a few unjust bobbles. We will be back.
Håkan Kallur
2024-11-24
Narrow and dangerous golf course. Absolutly not worth a visit.
Stephen Copley
2024-11-12
Very enjoyable. Long ish course with many greens having a false front
Philip Mitchell
2024-11-11
Not a great start, we visited a couple of weeks before playing to confirm no works pending on greens, but that changed and it was like putting on the beach. Paid €6 for a basket of balls, but ball machine not working and pro shop did not have the authority to refund. Course is short and very tight (several times we had to duck from miss directed shots from adjacent holes) with the main defense being a dog-leg to every par 4 and par 5 and every green having severe run-off areas. Severe borrows on many greens. Fun, but there are better courses in the area.
Paul Heffernan
2024-10-21
Very disappointed that we couldn't get buggies. The round was very slow taking 5 and a half hours
Andrew Stant
2024-10-20
We arrived at the course 45 minutes before our tee off, this should have been plenty of time to get prepared for our round. However, despite arriving early it took 30 minutes of those 45 to collect our buggies as staff were unsure if we could have them as other players had medical certificates.
The course was lovely and considering the recent wet weather it played well with some difficult tee positions.
It was nice to watch the last of our group from the club house bar. Very nice course and will play again next time.
Graham Cookson
2024-10-20
Nice course, greens very good. Caddy master helpful and efficient.
John Redmond
2024-10-19
Good course and good value for money.
Graham Cookson
2024-10-17
Well presented course with good greens. Need to sort out booking buggies like Pestana manage mid season golf.
Andy Grigger
2024-10-14
Pace of play by walkers and not allowing faster players to play through was bad. We struggled behind a foursome walking the back 9.
Liam Kearney
2024-10-13
We had a pleasant days golf on Alto. Fairways and greens were fairly good as was general progress. Only complaint was a very loud group of English golfers.
Andrew Kieran
2024-09-29
Surprised at the quality of greens here. Not many bunkers but course in good condition.
Tecnicals
*Parkland - Totally
*Undulated - Sloping greens
*Buggy Recommended - If Essential
*Signature Hole - 16th
*Water hazards - 2 Ponds that come into play, plus lateral ditches
*Tree Lined - With Pines and other varieties
*Dogleg - Few but nothing to acute
*Comments - Typical UK style designed course
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