Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort (Royal Óbidos Course) – Review and Rating

Translated by AI

Severiano Ballesteros had one guiding principle: to design courses that were tough challenges whatever the player’s handicap. Royal Óbidos is no exception.

Naturally, Royal Óbidos, like Ballesteros’ other creations, has a bunker in the shape of an “S,” but here he has actually added a bunker shaped like a “B” as well. It hardly gets clearer than that.

Even though the layout is made to suit several levels of difficulty, don’t settle in and think you can glide through eighteen holes. The first hole is admittedly a gentle par 4, but already on hole two it is time to sharpen every sense. The hole, a par 5, is long, with a dogleg left over water. Water comes into play on half the holes, by the way.

The contact with the Atlantic and the fantastic views may seem distracting at times, but on the other hand they create lasting memories that are nice to call up when the autumn storms are howling around the house back home.

This page by Bo Sjosten was originally published in Swedish on our sister site Golfjournalen.se. It has been translated by AI.