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Villa Padierna, Flamingos Golf
Handicap limit 27 for men and 34 for women, no certificate needed if you play with a PGA professional. Tee times every 10 minutes, about 4 and a half hours a round (verified with the club, Sep 2026).
Three senior tour match play championships (2002 to 2004) and the Women's Spanish Open 2010.
🛰️ The course from the sky↓
Flamingos Golf is the main course of the Villa Padierna resort, beside the Anantara palace hotel between Benahavís and Estepona. Antonio García Garrido designed it, and it opened in 2001 as the first of the resort's three courses. It is a par 71 of 5,714 metres. The front nine is tighter than the back, and three of the five par 3s come early. The greens are large, the bunkers hold white marble chips, and the grounds are styled like an Italian estate, with cypress trees, statues and sea views. It hosted a European Senior Tour match play event from 2002 to 2004 and the Women's Spanish Open in 2010, which Laura Davies won. Handicap limits are 28 for men and 36 for women. In summer 2026 the resort sold rounds at 106 euros with a buggy until 15 September, and autumn tee times listed at 114 to 130 euros. The course closed 24 August to 6 September 2026 for green aeration.
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The club's own booking system: 192 in October (182 online), 162 in November, 146 in December, no buggy; March 2027 198.
Villa Padierna Golf Club, all three courses: an individual membership is 80,000 euros to join plus 3,956 a year for unlimited golf, VAT on top, the buggy 742 a year; a 30 round card is 1,984 instead. Spouse and children under 25 join with no entry fee at 2,495 a year each. Corporate is 100,000 to join then 7,912. Memberships are transferable, guests get 50 percent off for 25 rounds then 25, spa and gym included. Members play 2 weekly competitions with an annual ranking, the Flamingos Trophy on Sundays and the Alferini Trophy on Wednesdays, plus the club championship and the interclub teams (verified with the club, Sep 2026).
The resort's 17 bay range at Tramores; balls are free and unlimited on the day you play.
Hole 55 with Eddy's Bar sits by the first tee, terrace to the sea.
What the internet says
On Leadingcourses, Flamingos rates 8.3, the best of the resort's three courses, inside Villa Padierna's overall 8.1 from 360 reviews (read 2026). Top100 user reviews average 3.5 of 5, and golfinspain users give the resort 3.7 from 61 reviews. Players praise the setting, the service and the fun, technical golf. The repeated warnings: August 2026 reviewers found dry fairways and rough tee boxes, which the club blamed on water restrictions, Flamingos runs busier than its sister courses, and the ornate styling is not to every taste.
The course and the greens
Many reviewers praise smooth fairways and quick, well kept greens. Some visits found the greens soft and slow, so the standard seems to vary through the year.
Arrival and the welcome
TripAdvisor visitors often mention smiling, helpful staff who hand you the buggy keys and check you have everything. The drinks cart service also gets friendly mentions.
What others are saying
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