Golfing on Gran Canaria - Golf resorts and golf courts
For beginners Gran Canaria provides excellent golf courts.
The golf ressorts in Las Palmas, Salobre, El Cortijo, Maspalomas, Meloneras and Tauro are situated all around the island and are visited by the international golf elite. The golf ressorts are very diversified and therefore very interesting to play on their greens. That´s the outcome of the involvement of well-known landscapers into designing the ressorts. The surrounding landscape and the requirements of the protection of the environment have been taken into account.
Facing the steady mild climate golf can be played all year on Gran Canaria. Playing with friends and improving the handicap is very popular because the golf ressorts enable different styles and levels. The financial income meanwhile became an important economic cornerstone of the island. Being a golf player the best you can do is living right next to the green. The Salobre luxury holiday houses, especially the Salobre Golf Villas with private pool in the south of Gran Canaria - Maspalomas - volunteer for that. On the other hand you don´t have to live at the golf court to rent a beautiful house. The Villa Maspalomas close to Maspalomas provides comfort, a heated pool and a fantastic ocean view.
Las Palmeras Golf Club in the capital of the island Las Palmas on the north side and Salobre Golf Resort close to Maspalomas in the south of the island are especially famous. The ressort Las Palmeras Golf Club in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is characterized by an unmistakable scenery with impressive palms and therefore international professional golfers are coming to play here. Guests often combine golfing with discovering the close-by volcanic crater Bandama.
The golf courts close to Maspalomas, the Mapalomas Golf and the aboce situated Salobre Golf, both provide a spectacular view. On the one hand you have an amazing view over the green, sand traps and ponds down to the marine blue Atlantic Ocean, on the other hand you will enjoy the view from the southern landscape to the outline of the gray-blue mountain massif.