The 5 Best Golf Courses We Played in Spain (2025) An Honest Guide

Welcome! We are so incredibly thankful for the unforgettable golf adventures 2025 has brought us. If you’re planning a Spain golf trip and wondering which courses are actually worth your hard earned time and green fees, you’re in the right place.

We’re an Icelandic husband and wife duo in our 50s, and after playing dozens of rounds across Europe, we’ve narrowed down our absolute favorites from 2025. We aren't scratch pros, and our outfits aren't always perfectly coordinated. We just love travel, honest reviews, and making the most of life because you don't stop having fun when you get old; you get old when you stop having fun!

Here are the top five best golf courses in Spain that gave us everything from jaw dropping views to a beautiful kind of suffering.

5. Las Ramblas: The Most Dramatic
Some golf courses are simply pretty; Las Ramblas looks like it was designed by an artist going through deep emotional turmoil. It is stunning, dramatic, and slightly unhinged.

• The Vibe: Deep ravines, bold carries, and massive elevation changes.

• The Reality: This is a proper test that shows absolutely zero concern for your scorecard. Bring extra balls and prepare to enter a small grief process after the front nine!
  https://lasramblasgolf.com/en/

4. San Roque Old Course: The Most Classy
This course doesn't try too hard to impress you, it just has the calm confidence of someone wearing a perfectly tailored navy blazer.

• The Vibe: Grown up, championship golf with a quiet, refined swagger.

• The Reality: The service is impeccable down to the quality reusable water bottles they hand you at the start. It’s the kind of place where you automatically behave a little better (at least until the golf actually starts).
  https://sanroqueclub.com

3. Lo Romero: The Best Surprise
Lo Romero might not be the most famous name on a typical Spanish golf holiday itinerary, but it gave us the biggest smiles of the trip.

• The Vibe: Welcoming, unpretentious, with a brilliant pace of play.

• The Reality: The staff is incredibly kind and alert (they even found and saved my lost house key!). The unforgettable 18th hole island green will make you feel brave, foolish, nervous, and hopeful all at once.
  https://loromerogolf.com/en/

2. Las Colinas: The Most Exclusive
From the moment you drive through the gates, Las Colinas feels like a private club that you are exceptionally lucky to be allowed into.

• The Vibe: Premium, luxurious, yet wonderfully inviting.

• The Reality: It’s a beautifully maintained, smart layout that quietly punishes lazy decisions. You need a strategy here, which is slightly awkward when you occasionally arrive on the tee box with pure enthusiasm instead of an actual plan.
  https://lascolinasgolf.com

1. La Hacienda Links: The Best Overall
Most golf resorts do one or two things well. La Hacienda does everything brilliantly.

• The Vibe: The complete, unforgettable golf destination experience.

• The Reality: Flawless greens, a brilliant layout, and absolutely absurd views of Gibraltar. We also have to mention the halfway house it is a spectacularly beautiful spot for a mid-round drink. It’s the closest thing to a perfect golf day we found all year. https://lahaciendagolf.com/en/golf/links-course/

Ready to tee off? Spain is an unbelievable golf destination because you don't just get great courses; you get entirely different moods, personalities, and ways to suffer beautifully. We are so grateful for these experiences and can't wait to share more of our journey.

If you enjoy honest, peer-to-peer golf reviews from real people, come join the fun! Watch the full video of our Spanish golf adventure right here: Top 5 Golf Courses in Spain 2025.

Here is a link to the full video, Our Top 5 Golf Courses We Played In Spain In 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7r0PFs_xzU&t=78s

Our First Cruise Ever!

An Honest Celebrity Edge Review from Two Icelanders

We expected our very first cruise vacation to be exclusively about the massive ship. We were entirely wrong. For eleven glorious days, my beautiful wife Hildur and I lived on the Celebrity Edge. It is basically a five star luxury resort floating on the water, and spoiler alert, it was the absolute best trip of our lives! We are so incredibly thankful for this experience. If you are a first time cruiser over fifty wondering what a luxury cruise is actually like, grab a cup of coffee. Here is our completely fluff free, brutally honest Celebrity Edge review.

We highly recommend the Celebrity Cruises.

Let us start with the biggest surprise, which was the incredible crew. By day two, they literally knew our names. I am fully convinced the staff on Celebrity Cruises undergo rigorous Jedi training. I would simply stand there thinking about ordering a Pina Colada for Hildur, and suddenly a smiling bartender would hand me one. I am not saying they can read minds, but I am also definitely not saying they cannot! Cruising is like stepping into a joyful parallel universe where everyone is just happy. Strangers become instant friends, and somehow, we found ourselves right in the middle of a midnight group karaoke session.

We originally planned to maintain our normal healthy diet on this trip. That plan sank immediately. Casual snacks turned into four course meals, and dinner felt like a massive holiday feast every single night. I ate a steak so ridiculously good that it ruined all other steaks for me forever. I might actually need professional therapy to cope with how amazing the cruise food was. Then came my ultimate rookie cruising mistake. Room service is included, so I ordered a nice breakfast to the room for me, Hildur, and my stomach. I forgot everything on a cruise ship is oversized. What showed up was enough food to feed a small army. Pro tip for new cruisers: just because the amazing food is included does not mean you have to order the entire menu!

The biggest myth about taking a cruise vacation is that you will eventually get bored. That is absolutely false. The Celebrity Edge is a luxury resort and a foodie paradise rolled into one perfect package. There was always something happening twenty four hours a day. One evening, I walked into the spectacular Broadway theater and saw a guy literally flying through the air. I had absolutely no idea what was happening, but I loved every second of it.

Even though I look like a professional athlete, I am a massive fifty plus tech nerd at heart. I took the behind the scenes ship tour, and if you love seeing how things work, you absolutely have to book it. The ship is kept insanely clean, honestly cleaner than a hospital. Another major packing tip for your cruise checklist: bring sunglasses! I am not a sunglasses guy, but the ocean glare is intense. I had to buy a pair on board, so definitely pack two or three pairs.

Would we book this cruise again? One hundred percent yes. We give the Celebrity Edge a perfect ten out of ten. We went in as skeptics and came out as forever cruisers. Once you go, you never go back. If you love travel, making the most of life, and having fun, come watch our full video review right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoQ4sh4pfQ&t=61s

Here is link to the Celebrity Cruises web (not sponsored in any way):
https://www.celebritycruises.com

Playing San Roque Old Course

The Best Golf Value in Spain and A Reality TV Surprise

We almost missed the most historic part of our entire trip! While walking past the room right next to ours at the gorgeous San Roque hotel, we spotted a small bronze plaque on the door. It turned out the entire European and American Ryder Cup teams from nineteen ninety seven lived in these exact rooms. Tiger Woods, Colin Montgomerie, Nick Faldo, and legendary captain Seve Ballesteros all slept behind these very doors before playing Valderrama just five minutes up the road. We were completely starstruck.

But the absolute funniest part of our stay was the other guests. The only other people in the hotel were a massive television crew filming the French version of Love is Blind! So picture this perfectly. There were incredibly gorgeous French reality television stars falling deeply and dramatically in love all over the romantic property. And then there was us. Just two deeply happy Icelanders in our fifties dragging our heavy golf clubs through the lobby trying not to ruin their romantic camera shots.

If you are planning the ultimate Southern Spain golf holiday, grab your favorite drink and let us tell you exactly why booking San Roque Old Course is the smartest decision you will make. We have played over fifty golf courses across Europe, and this is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular rounds we have ever experienced.

The Ultimate Valderrama Alternative

Let us talk about the real numbers because a luxury golf trip to Spain requires a solid budget. San Roque Old Course is a par seventy two masterpiece designed by Dave Thomas and Tony Jacklin, and it is currently ranked as the seventeenth best golf course in Spain. The green fee for two thousand twenty five is three hundred euros, and that crucially includes your buggy.

To put that incredible value into perspective, the legendary Valderrama is just five minutes up the road. A round there will cost you well over six hundred euros and the buggy is not even included! San Roque Old Course gives you a truly extraordinary championship golf day for half the price. That is literally a second round of golf or a fantastically indulgent dinner saved.

Classy Calm and Serious European Tour History

Some luxury golf resorts try extremely hard to impress you with flashy entrances and staff in matching outfits telling you how special you are. San Roque does not need to do any of that nonsense. It has the calm, quiet confidence of a person wearing a perfectly tailored navy blazer who does not need to talk too much to command the room.

The sprawling three hundred forty acre estate used to belong to the Domecq family, one of the most powerful Sherry dynasties in Spanish history. You check in for your round inside their spectacular historic summer mansion. The golf history here is equally heavy and beautiful. Seve Ballesteros personally redesigned every single bunker on the course. Furthermore, for fifteen consecutive years, this exact layout hosted the grueling European Tour qualifying school. Golf legends like Padraig Harrington, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, and Justin Rose literally started their professional careers fighting for their tour cards on these very fairways. You can absolutely feel that glorious, tense history on every single hole.

Unbelievable Service and Immaculate Course Conditions

From the moment you arrive, the thoughtful details elevate the entire experience. When we signed in, the excellent professional starter handed us beautiful quality water bottles. There are fresh ice water stations every three holes to keep you hydrated in the gorgeous Spanish sun. The wonderful staff even had frozen slushies waiting for us at the halfway point and fresh ice packed into our buggy cooler. I left two clubs at the pro shop to get new grips, and they were perfectly finished by the time we completed our delicious post round lunch.

Before you even reach the first tee, you will encounter the most magnificent practice putting green we have ever seen in Europe. It sits right next to the restaurant terrace, meaning you can enjoy a lovely lunch, sip a glass of Spanish wine, and putt with zero rush. The speed matches the course exactly. The actual course winds gracefully through a stunning mature cork oak forest. It is a classical parkland layout that demands immense patience. The driver is not always the answer here. The tight fairways and tricky dog legs punish aggressive players, but the patient golfer will score beautifully. The conditions are completely immaculate from the first hole all the way to the eighteenth.

Our Final Verdict on San Roque Old Course

San Roque Old Course is not flashy or trendy. It is simply classy. It is the exact kind of place where you automatically behave a little better for about twenty minutes until the golf actually starts and you inevitably revert back to your normal self! After playing dozens of courses across Europe, this was easily one of the most complete, joyful, and well run golf experiences we have ever had.

We are two Icelanders who firmly believe life should be lived to the absolute fullest. You do not stop having fun because you are getting old. You get old because you stop having fun!

If you want to see the stunning fairways, the hilarious reality television romance vibes, and our full joyful review, come watch the video right here.

Here is the full review video about the San Roque The Old Course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYiFbSEt90

San Roque The Old Course website:
https://sanroqueclub.com

The Scandinavian Denmarks no1 Golf Club

The Ultimate Review For Average Golfers

We absolutely love everything about the great game of golf. However, we definitely did not love losing nineteen golf balls in a single round! But even while we were constantly digging through the thick trees looking for our missing balls, we literally could not stop smiling. My amazing wife Hildur and I recently escaped the terrible weather in Iceland to experience The Scandinavian Golf Club. We are two regular golfers in our fifties who love sharing honest golf course reviews for average players. We just had one of the best golf days of our entire lives just forty minutes outside of Copenhagen.

If you are planning a luxury Copenhagen golf trip or looking for the absolute best golf courses in Scandinavia, grab a cup of coffee. Let us tell you exactly why The Scandinavian Golf Club is consistently ranked as Denmark's number one golf course and how you can actually survive it!

The Most Beautiful Golf Clubhouse in the World

From the very second you arrive at The Scandinavian, you feel like you are playing in a professional tour event. The stunning clubhouse was masterfully designed by Henning Larsen Architects. Local Danish golfers will proudly tell you that this is the most beautiful golf clubhouse in the world, and they are completely right. It perfectly blends gorgeous modern Scandinavian design with the surrounding pristine nature.

The world class staff greeted us with warm smiles and handed us everything we could possibly need for a spectacular round. We received beautiful custom bag tags with our names engraved on them and complimentary tees. But the absolute highlight before teeing off was the unbelievable practice area. You get unlimited Pro V1 range balls stacked perfectly into beautiful pyramids! If you want to get the most value out of your premium green fee at The Scandinavian, you absolutely must show up early to fully enjoy one of the greatest practice facilities you will ever see in your life.

Surviving The Robert Trent Jones New Course

The Scandinavian features two incredible layouts. We tackled the highly rated New Course designed by the brilliant Robert Trent Jones. This golf course is an absolute masterpiece built on old military grounds with fascinating hidden history buried deep in the beautiful forests. It is fully geo certified for sustainability and features world class drainage that can handle massive amounts of rain while remaining perfectly playable.
Let us be completely honest with you. The Robert Trent Jones New Course is spectacularly beautiful, but it does not pull any punches for average golfers. The fairways are extremely narrow, the ancient trees are literally everywhere, and the undulating greens are lightning fast. We had the genuine pleasure of being paired with a wonderful British gentleman, and we definitely owe him a massive apology for how terribly we played! Every single shot requires intense focus. I kept telling myself to swing slow and easy, but somehow we still managed to lose a grand total of nineteen golf balls. The magnificent finishing eighteenth hole features a beautiful roaring waterfall specifically designed to block out any clubhouse noises, which is incredibly clever and breathtaking.

Our Final Verdict and Honest Advice for Average Golfers

The Scandinavian Golf Club is a perfect ten out of ten and officially our favorite luxury golf vacation in Northern Europe. If we could do this entire Denmark golf trip differently, we would absolutely attend a short game bootcamp before arriving! Furthermore we highly recommend that average golfers buy nice but much cheaper golf balls for this challenging layout. We also strongly advise against hitting your driver on every single tight hole.

If you have the time and budget, you should turn this into a full four day golf heaven experience. Spend day one surviving the trees, day two learning the layout, and by day four you will finally feel confident! For us, golf is the absolute best couples sport in the world. You do not stop having fun because you are getting old. You get old because you stop having fun!

If you want to see our hilarious struggles, the stunning Henning Larsen clubhouse, and our full joyful experience, watch our complete YouTube review right here.

Here is our full review of the Scandinavian, Denmarks number 1 golf club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OnjZpT2PP4

The Scandinavian web:
https://thescandinavian.dk