Lisbon’s golf coast is gearing up for a bumper year, after recording a 21.9 per cent increase in rounds played by UK visitors during the first half of 2016, up to 16,016 compared with 13,138 during the same period last year.
Sports fans from around Europe can combine golf and football thanks to the return of ORIZONTE - Lisbon Golf's successful ‘Derby & Golf Weekend' package.
Renowned for its outstanding mixture of history, culture and gastronomy, Lisbon also provides access to a plethora of first-class golf courses, and players can experience some of its finest this spring with ORIZONTE – Lisbon Golf’s new stay-and-play breaks.
Cristiano Ronaldo will make an emotional return to his first club Sporting Lisbon with European champions Real Madrid next month, and football fans can be there to see it as part of a new three-night golf package.
The appeal of Lisbon is greater than ever with ORIZONTE – Lisbon Golf reporting a rise in bookings of more than 40 per cent for the first five months of 2016 compared to the same period last year.
Bespoke golf travel company Gastro Golf has joined forces with Turismo de Lisboa and Lisboa Golf Coast to promote a selection of tailor-made packages to play and stay at some of the best golf courses and resorts in and around Europe’s westernmost capital city through two separate media campaigns.
I am flying into Lisbon courtesy of our friends at Monarch Airlines, and have come in search of the work of Robert Trent Jones Senior and Junior. Our first stop on the tour is Quinta da Marinha.
ORIZONTE – Lisbon Golf, the biggest golf course management company in Portugal, has seen international bookings rise by more than 20 per cent in 2016.
Golfers from across Europe who also love their football eagerly accepted the invitation to indulge in their passion for both sports this month by taking part in ORIZONTE – Lisbon Golf’s ‘Derby & Golf Weekend’.
The second leg of our Robert Jones Senior and Junior journey takes us down from Quinta da Marinha to the port city of Setubal, the hometown of the chosen–one, Jose Mourinho, to take on the testing Troia.
As the UEFA Champions League continues to build to its climax, golfers across Europe have the opportunity to combine a three-night golf break next month with watching the top quarter-final clash between Benfica and Bayern Munich.
Europe’s most eagerly–awaited new golf course design project will officially open in Portugal this summer.
