Golf Bonalba
Bonalba Golf Course, with 18 holes, a par of 72, and a total length of 6,367 meters (approx. 7,000 yards), is a Project developed by Grupo Alicante Urbana, located in the tiny town of Mutxamel, close to Alicante capital city.
The annual average temperature of 18 º C, together with being merely 3 km. away from the Playa de San Juan (San Juan Beach) make Bonalba an exceptional setting to play golf all year round, and also a preferential destination for the golf players of the North of Europe.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is one of the most recently created Golf Courses in the Comunidad Valenciana (Autonomous Community of Valencia), it already has a great number of visitors. Relevant events have taken place here, such as the Final Round of the National Professional Golf Circuit, the Spanish Junior and Boys Tournament as well as the Costa Blanca Challenge, and the European Challenge Tour.
The variety of its vegetation, lakes and water hazards, its great number of bunkers and its wide greens arranged in an amusing design made by Ramón Espinosa make Bonalba an interesting and appealing challenge for the amateur golfer as well as for the professionals.
A slope rating of 132 on the yellow bars shows us the degree of difficulty of the course. The first 9 holes are quite technical, as the golfer has to avoid three of the five existent lakes, which play an important role in five of the first nine holes of the round. The three last holes of the first part of the round can spoil even the best score card, as they are the handicap 1 (par 4), 13 ( par 3), and 3 (par 4) in the course. These 3 holes have been called by the local golfers the "Amen Corner" of Bonalba.
The second 9 holes, being also quite technical, require a stronger stroke, they are holes where the dominant breeze from Levante makes it difficult to reach the green, normally forcing the golfers to use more "woods" than usual, especially on holes 16, 17, and 18, where the breeze blows right into the faces of the golfers.
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