COURSES & FORMATS
Camiral – Stadium Course (No 14 in Continental Europe)
Venue for the 2031 Ryder Cup
The second best ranked course in Continental Europe that we have toured to behind Monte Rei which we played in 2023.
The Stadium course is the culmination of more than a decade of planning and design by the European Tour. They wanted to build their own Players Championship course to rival the PGA Tour’s Sawgrass course. It has to be said that it was a decade well spent. The PGA is so good that within months of opening, it hosted the 1999 Gene Sarazen World Open and the Spanish Open in 2000. The Spanish Open returned to the Stadium course in 2009 (won by Thomas Levet) and 2014 when veteran Miguel Angel Jiménez extended his own record as the oldest winner in European Tour history winning a three-man play-off.
Camiral – Tour Course (No 26 in Spain)
The Tour course at Camiral Golf & Wellness Resort is shorter, more open and less demanding than its sibling, but its pine tree-lined fairways still have to be negotiated with care…
Whilst the Stadium course completely overshadows its stable mate it would be very foolish to dismiss the Tour course as a resort makeweight because it’s a fine track in its own right. It’s certainly shorter, more open and less demanding than its sibling, but its pine tree-lined fairways still have to be negotiated with care, especially as a number of them are fortified by strategically placed bunkers and cunningly positioned water hazards.
For sure, the Tour course demands the utmost of respect, even from the professionals who tee it up here every winter during the European Tour’s Final Qualifying School.
