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{mosimage} Opened few days ago, the Nick Faldo Golf Design project at the Amendoeira Golf Resort is an 18-hole, is a championship standard golf course and is designed with strategic play in mind. Nick Faldo, who will be non-playing captain of the GB & Ireland / Europe Ryder Cup team in 2008, is confident that his course is set to become a very special addition to the region’s burgeoning collection of golf courses. One of the finest desert-style coursesNick Faldo was on site recently to oversee the latter stages of construction and commented: “This is a very exciting stage of the design process, when you can really begin to see the layout taking shape, and I was delighted with the progress that has been made at Amendoeira. There’s a definite feel of Arizona about our course and this will be reflected in the many varied desert-style features that we have incorporated. In terms of strategy, this will be a course that will demand – and reward – a very thoughtful approach; this, coupled with the vastness of the landscape here, will make for a dramatic and entirely engaging round of golf.” The ambition of being the bestAs per Nick Faldo, "there are a lot of golf courses on the Algarve, but Amendoeira WILL be different to anything else, the courses on this Resort being built on wonderful terrain that will give each of them a character and personality unlike any other." "It will be a great colour contrast, from green to terracotta to white bunkers, all under blue skies. It will look very impressive." "I think play these days has become too much a hit it, find it and hit it again routine. The real skill is that when you stand on the tee the golf hole shows you—tells you—what to do, and if you do what it tells you you are rewarded and if you don’t you are penalised." "I like my courses to be challenging to whoever plays them. There might be easy holes in some places, but they are a challenge because you have to think about them, and that is what I am after." Some details about the lay-outFrom the opening shot on the elevated tee on the first hole this course will present challenges for everyone. There are a couple of downhill holes soon after the start, and, on 5, the option of a spectacular shot across the largest lake on Amendoeira. The start of the back nine takes the golfer from the high tees to the plain below before the 11th, the shortest hole on the course, takes him back into the hills before the 13th presents the highest point on the course, 50m above the plain. You can expect the back nine to be very hilly. And as Nick says, the views from here over the entire 640 hectares of Amendoeira are commanding...but the view to the fairway is daunting! Finally, the par 5 18th asks the golfer to thread the pinch point of bunkers left and right at 265 metres, before the green sits up in an amphitheatre in the hillside 235 metres beyond, requiring a superb strike to rise up and settle on the green.
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