Oporto Golf Club
Oporto Golf Club
1.5
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
About
Oporto Golf Club is the oldest in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as one of the oldest courses in Continental Europe. It is a delightful links layout with small greens and a comfortable, traditional clubhouse, which is the perfect place to relax after a round of golf. Being right next to the beach, Oporto is normally blessed with a light, heat-relieving breeze, though this can become a powerful carddestroying wind at certain times of the year. It has grown and developed considerably over the years, starting out as a very sandy par43, before evolving into the impressive par 71 it is now. While such time-honored courses can sometimes appear quite formal, Oporto is a friendly club with a healthy respect for the game
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Oct 2018 • Friends
I am just returned from a four day trip to beautiful Porto with some good friends.We planned to play two days of golf while staying in the area.
On Thursday 18th we had the great pleasure of playing Estela Golf Club in Vila do Conde on a gorgeous day with little wind and no rain.
The minute the taxi dropped us we were greeted by the staff with a warm welcome and a friendly smile.We paid €60 green fees each plus €30 for clubs with no charge for the pull carts and were sent off to the first tee with genuine good wishes to enjoy the day and the course.
Our wildest expectations did not prepare us for the great majesty of this fantastic course set right up against the wild Atlantic.The scenery is spell binding and it took great will power to concentrate on the golf.
Our memorable round of golf was capped nicely with a few cold beers on the terrace over looking the 18th as the sun slid slowly into the ocean.
We will all cherish our trip to Estela and look forward to returning soon.
On the following Saturday we booked to play Oporto Golf Club after reading many reviews and noting the long history of the club.
When our taxis dropped us this time our hearts sank as we surveyed the course from the car park.Neither the lady at the office, the professional from whom we hired clubs nor the caddymaster could muster a smile or proffer a greeting, warm or otherwise to complete strangers who had chosen to pay €80 green fees,€30 club hire plus the extra €5 for the cart to play their course.
We were instructed to to play off the 10th but given no proper directions from the aforementioned employees who had no shame in taking our money.After some navigational errors and some helpful advice from idle caddies we found our elusive starting point.
Every single aspect of the course is profoundly disappointing.Undulating tee boxes,scarred greens from poor mowing and fairways that looked like a local herd of elephants had discoed there for the entire Summer.
Crisscrossing a busy road every few holes with poor signage leads one to believe that the course designer had little experience of good quality golf courses and no one on committee had seen fit to dig it up and start again.As one of my co sufferers suggested '' the course should be white lined around the boundary and designated GUR ( ground under repair )
Lest I be accused of unfair comment I should say the courteous gentleman in the club house who takes care of the dressing room, kindly cleaned and in one case repaired our shoes while we played, for which we were grateful.
However my singular advice to prospective golf visitors to the region is to avoid this place like the plague.Drive an extra 50km if you have to or better still play Estela twice like we should have done.
We will never get back the hours we spent driving to the course and playing it and when we got in after 18 torturous holes the office was closed thus denying us the pleasure of asking for our money back.
No doubt they will send it on after reading this ...
A.G.Grieved.
message to tripadvisor. Please give the option of giving no stars as it is fully justified in this instance.
On Thursday 18th we had the great pleasure of playing Estela Golf Club in Vila do Conde on a gorgeous day with little wind and no rain.
The minute the taxi dropped us we were greeted by the staff with a warm welcome and a friendly smile.We paid €60 green fees each plus €30 for clubs with no charge for the pull carts and were sent off to the first tee with genuine good wishes to enjoy the day and the course.
Our wildest expectations did not prepare us for the great majesty of this fantastic course set right up against the wild Atlantic.The scenery is spell binding and it took great will power to concentrate on the golf.
Our memorable round of golf was capped nicely with a few cold beers on the terrace over looking the 18th as the sun slid slowly into the ocean.
We will all cherish our trip to Estela and look forward to returning soon.
On the following Saturday we booked to play Oporto Golf Club after reading many reviews and noting the long history of the club.
When our taxis dropped us this time our hearts sank as we surveyed the course from the car park.Neither the lady at the office, the professional from whom we hired clubs nor the caddymaster could muster a smile or proffer a greeting, warm or otherwise to complete strangers who had chosen to pay €80 green fees,€30 club hire plus the extra €5 for the cart to play their course.
We were instructed to to play off the 10th but given no proper directions from the aforementioned employees who had no shame in taking our money.After some navigational errors and some helpful advice from idle caddies we found our elusive starting point.
Every single aspect of the course is profoundly disappointing.Undulating tee boxes,scarred greens from poor mowing and fairways that looked like a local herd of elephants had discoed there for the entire Summer.
Crisscrossing a busy road every few holes with poor signage leads one to believe that the course designer had little experience of good quality golf courses and no one on committee had seen fit to dig it up and start again.As one of my co sufferers suggested '' the course should be white lined around the boundary and designated GUR ( ground under repair )
Lest I be accused of unfair comment I should say the courteous gentleman in the club house who takes care of the dressing room, kindly cleaned and in one case repaired our shoes while we played, for which we were grateful.
However my singular advice to prospective golf visitors to the region is to avoid this place like the plague.Drive an extra 50km if you have to or better still play Estela twice like we should have done.
We will never get back the hours we spent driving to the course and playing it and when we got in after 18 torturous holes the office was closed thus denying us the pleasure of asking for our money back.
No doubt they will send it on after reading this ...
A.G.Grieved.
message to tripadvisor. Please give the option of giving no stars as it is fully justified in this instance.
Written 25 October 2018
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- Tue - Sun 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
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