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This course, built in the
middle of a pinewood, brings together two very different architectural
concepts – British and American. In 1988 it was selected for
the Portuguese Ladies’ Open, an event that forms part of the
women’s professional European circuit.
Inaugurated in 1976, Pinhal
Golf Course was originally designed by the Briton Frank Pennink.
Later, 1985, it was partly redesigned by the North-American Robert
Trent Jones, who introduced new challenges into the course.
Trent Jones’ work has given the
course a great variety of holes as he brought together two completely
different architectural concepts, British and American. As a
result, the golfer is confronted by very different kinds of play.
Built in the middle of a beautiful pine wood, with panoramic views
over the sea, one of the main characteristics of this course is the
small size of its greens, requiring great precision from the golfer in
terms of approach shots.
Hole number 17, 502 metres for a Par
5 from a championship tee, offers players the chance of a birdie, or
even an eagle for golfers who risk driving off over the out-of-bounds
zone to the right, thereby drastically cutting through the fairway
accentuated dog-leg
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