Penina Academy Golf Course 🇵🇹

Weaving its way through the fairways of the Championship Course, this executive 9-hole course has been specifically designed for the intermediate golfer… and is great for all-round, thoroughly enjoyable holiday golf. With reasonable short greens, accuracy off the tee, along with approach shots, all players are given the chance to practice their short game with aplomb.

Ideal for Golf Practice and Training in the Algarve.

The Academy Course winds its way between the holes of the Championship Course and the Resort Course. It provides an excellent opportunity to fine-tune your short game... whilst providing a perfect training ground for the novice golfer.

Academy Course Rules & Specifications

Holes: 9 ; Par: 30

Handicap: Not required

Course Length: 1851 metres (2024 yards)

Grass:

- Fairways - Bermuda

- Greens - Creeping Bent

Etiquette:

- Please smooth bunker footprints

- Replace divots

- Repair pitch marks

- No more than 2 people in any one golf buggy

- Any match that loses ground on the players in front is obligated to wave the following group through.

Practice Facilities 

Penina provides a host of exceptional practice facilities, including one of the Algarve’s best driving ranges, two chipping greens, practice bunker, two putting greens, a golf clinic and tuition from two leading PGA Pros. Offering plenty of space, carefully thought out hazards and well-maintained surroundings, golfers will find it hard to tear themselves away.

Golf Facilities 

- Sir Henry Cotton Championship Golf Course (the first 18 hole course to have been constructed in the Algarve);

- Resort Golf Course (a great combination course that provides 9 holes of solid, but gentle, practice for beginners);

- Academy Course (this executive 9-hole course has been specifically designed for the intermediate golfer);

- Driving Range;

- Putting Green;

- Golf Pro Shop;

- Golf Lessons.