FROM THE MAINLAND TO THE ISLANDS, PORTUGAL HAS ALREADY BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO BEING AWARDED AS THE BEST DESTINATION OF WORLD GOLF. AND GOLFERS DON'T TRADE HIM ANYWHERE else.

As in so many other duels, it is with neighboring Spain that Portugal disputes the primacy of the market share of tourism associated with golf. And this is due to a series of evidences starting with climate favors (which in its different parts Portugal offers an irresistible time for the practice of sport) and the excellence of its golf courses, in various formats and designs, able to adapt and even value the type of land for which they are drawn.

It is to the south, in the Algarve, that golf reigns supreme. Recent figures point to some 300,000 foreign visitors who purposely go to the Algarve golf courses to practice their sport of choice and this choice is not unrelated to all the infrastructure that surrounds and serves the golf clubs, clearly top noting. The rental of the equipment, the advantages of the green-fees, the brilliance of the restaurants, the inevitable rent-a-car and the hotel itself, which together solidify an authentic golf tourism industry that in figures of 2016 already represented 14% of the tourist GDP of the country.

Portugal as a destination for amateur and professional golfers from all over the world would already be good news, but the successful development of this young industry begins to bear fruit in the quality of golf Portuguese with a handful of Portuguese names to give that talk on different circuits and various projects in the trough that, popularizing access to sport will put in place a plan to create country golf courses outside.

Golf spreads like a beneficial fever, from north to south, without forgetting the center , Madeira and the Azores. And it came to stay and grow, delighting the foreign visitor and giving the locals the discovery of a much more fascinating sport than a lonely sport.