Vilamoura Pinhal Golf Course - latest comments and reviews

Cliff Morgan 2025-09-22
Superb condition as usual and great to see all paving works in progress.

Maurice Rogers 2025-09-22
I have played Pinhal on many occasions over the years and I have to say the course is in the best condition I have ever seen it. Good to see the owners investing in improvements such as new buggy paths and thinning out the trees.

Ray Davis 2025-09-15
The actual course very well maintained and presented, notwithstanding works on a new pathway still in course of completion. Excellent club house facilities and quality food offering.

Amanda Johnson 2025-09-09
Everyone very friendly , lady in pro shop very helpful Work that is going on is very positive on the course. The buggy paths are very good etc

William Wright 2025-08-27
Great time lovely course unfortunately because we were a party of 3 were added a fourth person who had no course etiquette and would not listen to advice .Otherwise great experience in the sun.

Oilean Mulligan 2025-07-19
Very good everyone was lovely and very welcoming

Stuart Webster-spriggs 2025-07-13
The course wasn't in the best of conditions (compared to Salgado)

Christopher DREW 2025-07-12
Excellent, best condition we have seen it in 20 years of going there.

Stuart McLean 2025-06-30
Course in nice condition and the greens were fast and true.

Dave Parker 2025-06-29
Course in excellent condition, as usual.

John Gostage 2025-06-19
Brilliant

Jack Mills 2025-06-18
Really nice course. Staff were good but were a bit rude about timings and making sure we were back by 7.50pm with the buggy. Teed off at 4:40pm and finished at 7.50 on the dot. Great course, pure greens.

Richard Kent 2025-06-14
Excellent golf course, very well kept course, greens in great condition. Challenging with over hanging trees. Excellent facilities and would play it again for sure. 

Ian McPherson 2025-06-05
Welcoming, pleasant halfway house, course in outstanding condition

Bent Hessel 2025-06-05
Bogies too expensive!!!

Danny sneddon 2025-06-04
Course was good but out with the course ie cart paths was not so good.

Martin McDonagh 2025-06-04
Tough first 4 holes due to length and tree lined fairways. Lots of trees on rest of course. One or two in fairway! Course in good condition also great practice area

Harald Wirths 2025-05-30
The best course during the week even the pines are very challenging and I had the most Punch shots since ages. A very nice and well mantained course.

Lyne Gélinas 2025-05-22
Beautiful course Green and fairway were ok, but we had a problem with our car. Ways between each hole were difficult

James Page 2025-05-16
Great course, we loved it and will come again

DESJAMES Fabrice 2025-05-12
Entre amis, très beau golf le club house un peu juste mais belle expérience

John Joseph Gaffney 2025-05-09
Loved playing Pinhal. Our first round in Portugal, course in great condition and presented a good challenge. Staff were all top draw, from pro-shop, to lady in cafe and also the Starter

Clive Mabbutt 2025-05-06
Course in great condition … strange the club house closes at 8pm so if slow getting around on Twighlight golf getting a drink or food impossible

Vincent Burke 2025-05-05
Pinhal fantastic.

Pedro Chaparreiro 2025-05-02
7

Tom Stettler 2025-05-01
Loved it

Per Lokken 2025-04-25
Good

David Latham 2025-04-24
Quality

James Cosgrove 2025-04-24
Place was immaculate, staff friendly, course was in great condition and well priced food and drinks

Kjell Baudin 2025-04-19
For the higher prices now for greenfees from Vilamoura Golf they have to deliver quality on all things! The buggieroads at Pinhal is a disaster as always been before. And we don't see any improvements on the course in general so far. But the service in the reception/shop/buggieguys and restaurant is excellent as always! We have played Pinhal many times so we know what we are talking about. The higher prices for greenfees on all former Dom Pedro courses are thinkable! Because you always expect what you pay for. Best regards, Kjell & Heléne Baudin

Jeannot Mailhot 2025-04-12
Très beau terrain les normales trois sont superbes et les prix pour la bière et les sandwiches sont aussi très bon

Lars-Erik Aursand 2025-03-26
Coarse in very good condition this year.

Dennis Meredith 2025-03-25
Once again Pinhal presented in wonderful condition. Also a pleasure to play there and a fair challenge to all levels of golfer.

Søren Rasmussen 2025-03-23
Its ok

Clive Sims 2025-03-18
We thought the course was in good condition considering all the rain recently.

Josef Platner 2025-03-16
Playing Pinhal is much better than for example Laguna. Despite the weather Pinhal is in best shape

John Harte 2025-03-14
Great course in great condition

Kevin Maguire 2025-03-12
Eight in our group played Pinhal on the 5th of March, its been a while since we played it and we were pleasantly surprised how dry the fairways were compaired to Laguna we played the day before. The greens were in good condition

Sean Murtagh 2025-03-10
It felt a little like a municipal coursee

Gerald Nuessel 2025-03-07
Guter Platz, guter Zustand

Neil Coyne 2025-03-05
Great traditional golf course and superb greens

Jaroslav Mraz 2025-03-02
some of the holes are of a poorer quality

Paul Anderson 2025-02-18
Always enjoy Pinhal despite it playing quite long and challenging - and that's from a 7 HC player who's not too short off the tee. The course condition was very good with a great variety of hole layouts. The challenges come from pine trees in the middle of one or two fairways, or jutting out into a few fairways, and then the greens are very small making it difficult to hit them. If you're on holiday, and not worried about playing to your handicap, go enjoy Pinhal with your buddies or other half!

Liam Wall 2025-02-18
great course in good condition

Klaus-Uwe Lucht 2025-02-15
Nice.

David Taylor 2025-02-06
Pretty, but challenging course. Most fairways narrow and lined with umbrella pines. Very nice staff and facilities.

Aidan William Lavender 2025-02-05
Course in great condition in all aspects - greens especially and they were quick. Lovely practice facilities. Pleasant veranda overlooking practice area and course. Great days golf at just under £100 each. ( we didn’t hire buggies - quite a few walks between holes so if you are not up for this then hire them. Pretty flat mainly apart from 2 par 5s uphill).

Klaus Schmidt 2025-01-20
Nice course in very goog condition. The best course of the Pinhal courses we played.

Andy Whelan 2025-01-18
Brilliant service turned up to the course and everything was prepared for us as booked

Tim Browne 2025-01-12
Good course, excellent service, a grand day out

Carole Massicotte 2025-01-07
service at the store, explanation on the phone were clear and informative. We did use the system and everything went very well.

Mark Brewer 2025-01-06
The course was in excellent condition. All the staff were professional, very helpful and accommodating. A great round of golf for all 8 of us.

Clive Sims 2024-12-18
Enjoyed the course and is in good condition. Staff very good.

John Ryan 2024-11-19
Very nice but challanging

Marc Goumans 2024-11-15
course was good, driving range and putting/chipping fine. restaurant OK

Ted Johnson 2024-11-15
Interesting/challenging (lots of stone pine trees) course in great condition. Small greens (in good condition and running nice and quickly) are an interesting and different challenge. Excellent pace of play (3hrs), although there were just the two of us and we were first out before a big storm.

Peter Nield 2024-11-14
Booked a time online with buggy at the course the staff member said they didn't take bookings for buggies on line, they had to phone tee times up to confirm booking. Tee times did refund me 17 euro due to it being a Twilight booking, thanks

Arve Bekkevar 2024-11-12
Very good

Sam Wade 2024-11-11
Course in fantastic condition especially the greens, probably the best it has been in the 9 or 10 years we’ve been playing here. Some of the tees could do with some maintenance to be ultra critical.

Peter Crockett 2024-11-10
Love this course

John Slinger 2024-11-08
Enjoyed the golf course very much. My wife and I are here from Canada for a week and this is our first game ever in Portugal. The large pine trees lining the course framed the fairways beautifully and provided lots of challenges. The greens weren’t super fast but they rolled very true. For a course of this length the greens were relatively small. The green on 10 was crazy small but it was really pretty cool. Overall a fun round!

Martin Punch 2024-11-04
Good Course... Only Issue are the trees... If your ball lands on top chances are you will not see it again... Dom Pedro are Increasing rates for Golf again at Vilamoura. 264€ in 2025 for Old Course excluding buggy. !!!! Regular Vilamoura Golfers are looking elsewhere (Spain) which was clearly visible in Vilamoura during October .

Hans Rudolf Rechsteiner 2024-11-03
Simple and easy booking and everything is working

Rob ward 2024-11-01
Great course

Joe Hennelly 2024-10-31
Very enjoyable course and friendly staff

Jan Texler 2024-10-28
For me- great golf course - quality, layout and also restaurant ????

Per Lauritsen 2024-10-25
Evry thing was very good

Christopher Halbard 2024-10-21
Nice course BUT short and tee boxes in bad condition

Jon Raw 2024-10-21
Grea course very good condition

Charles Valade 2024-10-19
Played here several times before so we knew what to expect. Course was in good shape. Positioning of umbrella trees can be tough.

Anthony Coombs 2024-10-16
Due to the weather course conditions were very soft, but mostly forward tees make it feel shorter than normal. All good on the course, with polite marshaling keeping up the pace of play

Steve Richmond 2024-10-16
Haven't played Pinhal for a number of years although we have been golfing annually in the Algarve since 2006. A tight course with many tough holes. Even with a good drive you can be blocked out by the dense overhanging trees. Many of our party found it too hard but still enjoyed the experience. The course was in excellent condition and the staff were great.

Clive Woodward 2024-10-13
Great course. Loved it!

Andrew Thorpe 2024-10-13
Good holiday course

Patrick Howard 2024-10-12
Excellent course despite the very poor weather

Dave Sheehan 2024-10-11
Very challenging, but enjoyable course. Very friendly staff.

Paul Meredith 2024-10-09
Feedback for 7 and 9 October. Course in good condition. Shuttle worked very well...better than to the Old Course

Stephanie Meyer 2024-10-08
Beautiful parkland course with a great layout in a very good condition.

Henk van Tunen 2024-10-05
We played 5 october 2024 and had one of the first twillights. Tee-time 14.42 hour. At first we could not get a buggy. We shoud come back 10 minutes before teeing off. Later we did get a buggy earlier. The weather was beautiful. We were the last that could play 18 holes. After that it was dark. The course is beautiful but difficult andvthe greens are fast. I lost two balls, that were stuck in top of the trees.

GERARD CAULFIELD 2024-10-04
Terrible beer

Eric Segers 2024-10-01
Nice course,could need some extra care in places.Some interesting holes .Good experience!

Tracy Elbro 2024-09-27
No Marshalls on course, over 5 hour round and no-one doing anything about it

Maurice Rogers 2024-09-24
Not in the best of condition, they have obviously struggled with the dry summer conditions and the course is yet to fully recover.

Andrew Slavin 2024-09-13
Great day out on a wonderful course No tricks, just good old fashioned natural course. Don't be offline, otherwise your likely to be impacted by the lovely old trees Good se4vice at Reception and buggy area. Definite recommend

Paul Fernandez 2024-09-11
Excellent course, good test. Staff are always extremely polite & helpful

Robert Ryan 2024-09-09
Feel good factor. Course was difficult and pace of play very fast

Neill Stenhouse 2024-08-22
Reliable, quick service, what else could you ask for?!

Cormac O'Conaire 2024-08-06
course was not good.

Alan Penman 2024-07-27
Very enjoyable course,genuine Par 5s and course in decent condition. Play slowed in Back 9 and course would benefit from on course Marshall. Clubhouse good and staff very helpful

James Side 2024-07-25
Course was superb and in great condition. One of my favourites to play.

Mr Christopher DREW 2024-07-07
Warm welcome by reception staff as well as Caddy Team. Course and greens were very good with a large workforce beavering away.Round took 4 hrs 10 mins even with 3 walkers in front of us.

Colin Berry 2024-07-06
Another good booking. 3rd time this week. Course still in great condition. We teamed up again with other players. Very good company.

Michael Millership 2024-07-05
Great course good clubhouse complimentary showers and towels after

Colin Berry 2024-07-03
Very good service. Tee Times bookings worked seamlessly. Excellent. As was the Staff at Pinhal Golf Course

Mr Christopher DREW 2024-07-01
Good day at Pinhal, approx 4 1/2 hours, not too bad for Holiday resort Golf, bearing in mind the amount of traffic, thought the course was extremely good, especially as a Couple of the Vilamoura courses are closed for maintenance etc.

Kevin Ray 2024-06-29
Great round at Pinhal, course in lovely condition, very smooth operation they have from arrival to return of the buggies. Only shame was the on course refreshment stands were closed as was the clubhouse when we finished. Hadn't played here for over 20 years but will return.

Maurice Danaher 2024-06-27
The course is great, the service is brilliant from the arrival to the course , on the course and in the club house afterwards. Would definitely recommend this course to others.

Claudio Monaci 2024-06-25
Excellent course, vete well maintained, perfect for average golfers. Staff always helpful and very kind
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Carl Room 2024-06-22
Overall very good

Martin Meyers 2024-06-21
Played Pinhal several times before and love it, it is very tight with the trees hanging over the fairways and makes you think about every shot, lofted clubs under the trees are impossible. The course was in perfect condition. Again the staff were brilliant and went out of there way to make our experience brilliant, very attentive bar and restaurant staff. There were 9 of us and even though we had a large table in the sun after the game for a couple of beers they went out of their way to set up another full table for us in the shade for us to eat our meal. Brilliant and would highly recommend and again will return as soon as possible.

Nigel Hough 2024-06-20
Great days golf at Pinhal and just like Millenium playing excellent and way better condition than last year back to being at its best in my opinion. Well done to the new owners for focussing on what golfers really want including excellent service from start to finish.

Geir Tore Jakobsen 2024-06-18
Rock hard greens. Ok course in the hole.

Martin Punch 2024-06-17
Good golf course played many times... Buggies now at 60€ , Unfortunately we had 2 so called golfers in front of us in a group of 4 who took 3 shots to reach the fairway and looked as if they had a few. We were delayed on every hole with these clowns who many times nearly drove the buggy on the green. Added to this they were forgetting clubs all round the course. It took us 5 hours to play and the course marshal just drove around passing the time away. They need to get their act together...Golf is not cheap in Portugal and at 10€ per hole (Including Buggy) it should be enjoyable, The Starter was very pleasant but should have questioned these guys ability to play.

Matthew Williams 2024-06-11
Buggy’s and club nice condition course played well and staff friendly

François De Witte 2024-06-09
Beautiful and well-maintained

Janet Metcalfe 2024-06-07
Great course, great condition. Buggy useful in the heat as it's quite hilly and a long walk between some holes. Beware the trees! They eat golf balls!!! Lovely staff and great welcome in the shop. Locker rooms very basic and no towels available.

Dipak Raval 2024-05-23
Stunning course. Loved it

Duncan Ramsey 2024-05-23
Pinhal was a challenging but enjoyable course. Thoroughly enjoyed the round and can't wait to come back. Would highly recommend.

Mark Wright 2024-05-18
Great course and friendly reception. Greens excellent. Bar staff great

Brian Angus 2024-05-17
Excellent golf course, some nice variety to the fareways and quick greens in good condition. My favourite course in Villamorra.

James Betts 2024-05-15
The course was on very good condition, ???? enjoyable round with lots of interesting holes

John Bracken 2024-05-15
Cheaper prices

Roy Parker 2024-05-13
Poorly maintained tee boxes look rough fairways full of divint holes greens good

Xavier ESCH 2024-05-12
Great course, tough greens ????

Gerard Kinsella 2024-05-08
course in good condition some tough holes but well worth playing.

Cathal McElarney 2024-05-07
Too many trees in unfair positions down fairways

Michael Sykes 2024-05-02
The course was in superb condition

Jerry Kunkler 2024-05-01
Course was not in great condition But we all enjoyed the course and facilities

Mike Smith 2024-04-29
Played Pinhal many times. Course was in very good condition Very busy 4 hrs 50 mins for a round though

Michael FitzPatrick 2024-04-17
Course in great shape, very enjoyable

John Kelsall 2024-04-11
Course was in good condition - staff were friendly / very helpful - we were paired with some great guys - lovely twilight round

Lois Cormack 2024-04-07
It was a 5 hour very expensive round way over priced Terrible pace of play Would not recommend I tried to cancel 1 week prior and they said it was too late to cancel Bad customer service

Paul Comerford 2024-04-03
Very nice day of golf, weather was great this always helps. Course was in great condition, greens were very lightly sanded but didn't impact putting.

Cameron Milne 2024-03-30
Another great day out with Jim from Chez Carlos Great course iffy weather forecast and good company What’s not to like

Martin Punch 2024-03-30
Nice course in good condition, friendly staff, only issue is pace of play, maybe starter should mention this to players and also how long you should take searching for your ball

rob schepp 2024-03-28
We could only play 9 holes due to the terrible weather conditions. Nice course, not difficult. The scenery is a bit dull with mostly pinetrees. Greens are in very good condition

Clive Sims 2024-03-25
Excellent course condition and lovely staff.

Deirdre Ahern 2024-03-21
Excellent. Course in great condition and lovely to play

Stephen Mooney 2024-03-14
enjoyed the golf course

Pat Mclaughlin 2024-03-11
Excellent day, lovely staff, course in good condition and greens really good in quality and pace.

Graham Lucas 2024-03-10
Fine

Ki Cheng 2024-03-08
Unhelpful staff. Unwilling to offer to take golf bags just across the street to Hilton - in the rain. Fairways and greens are ok but outside of these are rough patches and bare spots.

Pauline Hill 2024-02-26
Traditional tree lined Portuguese course but with tight fairways and small greens. Very good condition and enjoyable.

Peter Jeffery 2024-02-20
as always we had a great last day, course was good and staff very helpful, the only down side was that we didn't complete our round, as there was a really slow group a few tee times in front of us and a 5 hour did not suit our time scale as we had a flight to catch, so I would book an earlier tee time if we had a late flight again, just one of those things.

Biolley Gilbert 2024-02-18
We had a komplex Order. Price was wirst wrong, I was able to clarefy, finally all was perfekt.

Gary Lavery 2024-02-17
Excellent service and course

Alastair Gibson 2024-02-15
The course was superb, quite tricky but loved it.

Alena Brennerova 2024-02-14
The golf course is in excelente condition. We enjoy it a lot

Warrick Dawson 2024-02-07
Course in reasonable condition (greens good) but waited on every shot. Staff friendly and welcoming.

Colin Emsden 2024-02-07
Always start our golf break on Pinhal as we enjoy the course

Colm Smith 2024-01-29
Course very well presented

Tony McMahon 2024-01-27
Course ok could do better

Karin Harlacher 2024-01-25
Toller Platz und sehr freundliches Personal,gerne wieder. -**- Great place and very friendly staff, gladly again.

Simon Begg 2024-01-15
Lovely afternoon round that flowed well, a few rather slow players on the back nine, but relaxed holiday golf. Staff in reception and restaurant just lovely.

Michael Reed 2024-01-10
Too many trees ????????

David Askew 2024-01-10
Golf in good condition Green nice but a bit slow

Remco Verheijden 2024-01-10
Wonderfull!!! Beautifull, but mean course, trees swallowing balls ;-)

Scott Couper 2024-01-10
Very friendly and tricky

Deb Reynolds 2024-01-09
Enjoyed the course, greens were very good. A good test. Staff very pleasant.

Anne Nikolaisen 2024-01-08
I like this course, and it was in good condition :-)

Anne Nikolaisen 2024-01-08
In good conditon, I like it as always :-)

Kristiane Peuten 2024-01-07
ok

Wouter van Kempen 2024-01-06
This was our most challenging golfcourse. All those pine trees! Of course you have to hit straight balls, but it was not my day….

Thomas Gordon 2024-01-05
We would like to thank telma at tee times for all her hard work and commitment to ensuring we had a great golfing holiday and we definitely will be back next year Pinhal is a really challenging course to play but well worth it, accuracy is needed but rewards are there to be had lovely course and great staff will see you again next Christmas many thanks Thomas and Linda

Dr. Klaus Mittelbach 2024-01-05
Course in good shape, better service compared to last year. Current best Dom Pedro course.

Thomas Gordon 2023-12-25
Beautiful golf course really picturesque with some challenging holes great facilities with driving range and putting and chipping greens lovely clubhouse

Alain Cardoso 2023-12-22
Excellent course conditions, and challenging design. One of the best of the area

Graham Sims 2023-12-15
Enjoyable round on an interesting course in good condition. Excellent driving range adjacent to the clubhouse. Staff friendly and helpful.

Rogier Snoo 2023-12-12
Pinhal is part of the Dom Pedro group with 5 quality golf courses. The Old Course is the best in my opinion, but Pinhal an Millenium are a close second. Pinhal has a lot of trees to conquer. Errant teeshots makes ball shaping a must. Fun thing of Pinhal is also that is has a couple of greens that are realy tiny, like hole 9 and 10... wow those are difficult to hit. So rely on your short game here. Excellent course a joy to play.

Neal Uren 2023-12-04
Great course

Billy Carey 2023-11-30
Poor greens

Tatsiana Bulavitskaya 2023-11-26
Good

Chris Fairhurst 2023-11-22
Pinhal course in very good condition with quite a few challenging holes.

Carolin 2023-11-22
All went perfectly well, thank you very much

Stuart Riccalton 2023-11-17
Course generally good although the greens were in poor condition.

Stephan Greve 2023-11-15
Tee Boxes

Kjell Baudin 2023-11-14
Excellent course but with not so good roads for buggies

Bob Ryan 2023-11-13
The golf course was in poor condition

Graham mitchell 2023-11-06
Course and amenities were very nice, greens looked a bit tired