Opinions of Santa María Golf

Nice course, pleasant to play

Best Quality -Value in 4 courses placed. Dona Julia, Marbella (Higuron), Valle Romano and Santa Maria. Overall good but very mountainous course. Should have researched flatter courses in Costa del sol. Overall golf in Costa del sol is more expensive than in North America in terms of quality-price ratio.

No driving range, so beware to start your saison at this course.

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Not played the course in a few years but was impressed by the way it has been upgraded both on and off the course . The quality is much improved and the course in good condition and the bar and restaurants far better, and this is a course to return to.

This iis a very nice course to play the hole nine is a great hole to play

Good challenge and in good condition, green fees getting a bit expensive

Not very difficult, shorter then average. Good thing is that you can walk and not use a buggy

The problem of Santa Maria was that the time between two flights are so short, that we very often had to wait before we could tee off nearly every hole . But every thing else was fine.

Our group enjoyed the course with the exception of the greens which were not holding up to the level of traffic on them, they were heaving scuffed with spike marks and were slow - both problems probably due to their sandy construction. Otherwise a very well presented and enjoyable layout. I would recommend a buggy as it's beauty come from its hilly nature.

Poor condition. Untidy, layout has tight, blind holes. New holes added are poor

Lovely course even with some temporary greens . Always a pleasure to play here , excellent value for money. Will keep playing here when in Spain

Enjoyed the round of golf.

Challenging weather conditions but club did very well to get course open

Nice club, Greens were not in best condition, Slight hold ups on first few holes

Very good course despite 3 temporary greens. Excellent value for money, with a free drink included following my game. A nice variety of holes. My second time playing here and would recommend the course to anyone. Had a fantastic time

Professional and familiar golf club.

Quite difficult with narrow and challenging tee-offs. Anyway we enjoyed playing IT and Will come back in future

Nice course. Not too difficult for average player.

What a nice course - surely with buggy, but always gentle fairways and good putting greens worthwhile playing there

Condition of the course was not great, especially the greens which had several bare patches. The layout is good and a fair test and the overall welcome and facilities are good too.

As in most places at Costa de sol or Costa del Golf - a buggy is advisable

Great course and restaurant

Your bar and restaurant prices are exorbitant, I was charged 14 euro for A Gin x Tonic in the afternoon. Disgraceful abuse of golfers. Disgraceful business practices.

HSSGC 2009 Day 1 Very average course but ideal for a first round confidence boost. relatively short par 4's and most should play to their handicap here. Staff very helpful but a shame about the goddam fruit flies! Course generally in good condition but greens had lots of unrepaired pitch marks! Value for money...yes! Will I play it again...no!

A good value golf course on the strip, this offers a quality course usually in good condition at very fair prices compared to some. We have now played this half a dozen times in the past decade and it never lets us down. The 11th is an absolute beauty - proper risk/reward hole. Suprised by one of the comments on here regarding service and welcome - we've always found it to be one of the most friendly courses on the coast! I suppose we all have bad days, but we've never felt unwelcome on any of our visits - quite the opposite.

average course buggys have to stay on path unless your a member who all seemed to have medical conditions 2 of our party had phones stolen from bags on course we played 4 courses in this area and this was the most uninviting to our party

Complained as despite we'd specifically booked a 2 ball were put with 2 members who we couldn't converse as we spoke different languages and slowed us up by over an hour as much lower handicaps - Basically treated as if we were just another golf fee and at nearly £75 each I expect more - plus don't do this course if you don't have a medical certificate as very hilly so buggy very advisable - but you have to stay on paths unless you have medical certificate so waste of time

In first week of August we played: La Cala Europa&America, Marbella golf club, Calanova, Los Arqueros, Santa Marija, Cabopino, Alcaidesa (Hcp 13,18,22,25). Here are the reviews: La Cala Europa&America: 5, Marbella golf club 5+, Calanova: fairways 4, forgreen 3-, greens 3 (hairy) , Los Arqueros: 4,3 (good greens), Santa Marija: fairways 4, greens 3- (soft,soft, soft, hairy, nothing to compare to other courses, couldn’t putt). Even shorter course now. I was skeptic, but the stuff said we can play with buggies at 17 p.m. because we will easily come around. We had lots of traffic on the way but still make it on time. Because we finished after 9 p.m. the stuff said directly that this was the last time we did something like that…. WTF. Will not play it again but not because of this misunderstanding. A place for older or higher Hcp with nice club house), Cabopino: if La Cala is 5 I give it 4,3 like Los Arqueros (on La Cala they did really good job), Alcaidesa: If Cabopino and Los Arqueros are 4,3 it should be 4 ( a bit dry but good greens), but then Calanova and specialy Santa Marija should desert 2/3. Don’t get me wrong but La Cala and Marbella golf club were perfect, usually Los Argueros and Cabopino shuld recive 5 for such condition. I was surprised on golf courses that they war in such good condition in summer. BTW we play a lot on “costa” in all seasons. Oh, accept La Cala and Marbella they will have to work on sends some more!!!

Lovely open course, not too difficult, but helps build your confidence . Have played here for the last 4 years and always look forward to returning. Always friendly, and though it is busy, there is never a need to rush a round of golf in Spain

played this in May 2006, and was impressed with the course. The course was quite difficult for me but the buggy came in handy and the scenery, especially the 14th tee was tremendous.

Good course but the rudest and most unhelpful staff on the coast. Asked for a buggy but they had none left, asked for a powakkady, had none left, asked for a smile but they had none left !

Fantastic course, a bit shorter than many, but very enjoyable. In very good condition, I played in June 2003.