Laranjal Golf
Quinta do Lago, Algarve, Portugal
Laranjal, originally an orangery, is today a beautiful and totally different golf experience. It is a sanctuary for those seeking the finest in golf and personalized service. Its narrow fairways and well defended greens require concentration and accuracy to navigate this testing routing laid down on a rolling and well defined topography. It is a par 72, 6.500 meters, with five par 5s, eight par 4s, five par 3s set amongst umbrella pines, corkoaks and orange trees with a natural water course and 5 beautiful lakes. Penn A4 was selected for the greens to help guarantee good putting surfaces all year round and the Fairways were sown with Bermuda.
• Prime Hole of Quinta do Lago – Laranjal: 11
• Architect: Jorge Santana da Silva, 2009
• Greens: Creeping Bentgrass Penn A4
• Fairways, Tees & Roughs: Bermuda 419
“It will be a surprise for a lot of people… it provokes a series of emotions from the first hole to the last. It is about the game and the strategy as well as the aesthetics. Nobody will be indifferent to it”, Santana da Silva.
18 holes, Par 72, 6.460 meters, Rating: 75.4, Slope: 140
Handicaps: maximum Men 28, Ladies 36
Location: GPS Co-ordinates to Laranjal (Geographic WGS84)
• Longitude: 7º59’54.83’’0 - dd: -7.9986
• Latitude: 37º3’34.27’’N - dd: 37.0595
