Espiche Golf

Small course in Good condition 💪💪

Challenging Course with a beautiful surrounding, excellent staff and fantastic restaurant. You have to play that course!

Well...it wasn't love at the first sight between me and Espiche as I played really really bad and lost a lot of golf balls there... Espiche might be one of the tightest courses I have ever played, if you miss the fairway, you will end up looking for your ball (or not looking at all) in very thick bushes. For a new course the level of mainenance was impressive: it was playing firm and fast...which obviously made the landing areas even smaller 🙈 This is by no means a championship course as it is too short and quirky but it is a great value for money experience and despite my poor play, I really enjoyed my round there. It was a very nice and quiet promenade in the Portuguese countryside as there are no houses around the course! Espiche also has a very nice clubhouse, overlooking the whole property where you will be delighted to drink a cold Sagres after a fun round of golf. I hope Espiche will be nicer to me the next time I play there :)

The first time I played the course, must be roughly around 2012-2013, it wasn’t open to public yet. I was very lucky, to know a staff-member, who invited me to play. The experience, playing a golf course that isn’t finished, is amazing. A lot of details were missing (fringe, rakes, posts, some hazards, …) but it was wonderful. Nature is still shaping that course and it’s probably going to be a very challenging one, someday. When the wind picks up, and it will, you’ll have difficulties keeping your ball in play! But HEY, golf’s tough, right?