With this year’s Ryder Cup decided, attention begins to turn to the future of the event and venues. Taking this into consideration, I read the below article with interest about Portugal’s bid for the 2018 event.
Click here to read the article from MerelyGolf.com.
Portugal already offers great golf with many courses along the Algarve Coast in the south such as those at Vilamoura, San Lorenzo, Vale do Lobo and the newest addition, Monte Rei. There are also some excellent courses further north close to the beautiful city of Lisbon such as Oitavos Dunes and further north, Praia d’el Rey. In the past these have been the main two areas for golf with a drive of around 3 hours between them. If the development of Herdade da Comporta goes according to plan it will be an ideal way of breaking up the journey between the two areas or allow for a two centre trip without as much travel.
If the Portuguese Ryder Cup bid for 2018 is successful we should hopefully avoid the kind of weather this year’s event suffered!
By Alastair Niven. Alastair has been with PerryGolf for over 9 years and is one of our Golf Travel Specialists.
