The Alto Golf course is located in an attractive area steeped in golfing tradition.
Just a few kilometres away is the area where the game was first played in the
Algarve,
a long extinct, rudimentary layout with sand and oil greens, or 'browns', dating back to the 1920`s
between
Portimão
and
Praia da Rocha.
Alto is also less than seven kilometres from the venerable Penina,
Algarve´s
first grass golf course. Like
Penina,
Alto was designed by Sir Henry Cotton, British Open champion in 1934, 1937 and 1948,
who made the
Algarve
his home back in the sixties. The course was opened in 1991 by Portugal`s
President Mário Soares who made the inaugural stroke with a driver which is
on display in the clubhouse.
Built on ideal, undulating terrain amongst traditional vineyards close to the coast, Alto
is blessed with fine views of both the sea and the Monchique range of hills in the hinterland.
Nearby is the fishing
village of Alvor
at the estuary of a river of the same name.
