The Desert Springs Resort and Golf Club is an international award winning family leisure resort with exclusive luxury homes set beside the emerald green fairways of a unique and stunning championship desert golf course.
Nestled in the Almanzora region of Almeria on Spain’s southeastern coast, Desert Springs enjoys a true desert climate. As part of the warmest, sunniest and driest region of the whole of coastal Europe, the area enjoys an average of 325 days of sunshine a year.
Set amongst stunning scenery, and woven around The Indiana Course, the resort has a wonderful selection of apartments, townhouses, cottages and villas. The apartments, townhouses and cottages are set around swimming pools in landscaped gardens and the villas have private swimming pools.
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Our tuition breaks are based in self- catering accommodation but, on a B & B or half board basis, giving you the best of both worlds. Accommodation ranges from apartments to townhouses and villas around the golf course. Breakfast and evening meals can be taken in El Torrente restaurant and there are other bars and restaurants dotted around the site to keep you occupied when you are not out on the course.
El Torrente Restaurant is at the heart of the Resort, it is home to Golf Reception, the Pro Shop and the Bar and Restaurant.
The Corocodile Club overlooks the first fairway and houses a more informal bar and restaurant along with a pool, jacuzzi and gym.
Other facilities include the Day Spa @ Desert Springs which is a top class spa providing the full range of Elemis products and treatments. The Sierra Sports and Fitness Club which is mentored by Daley Thomson and includes a full aerobic gymnasium, trim trail, exercise stations, two tennis courts, two paddle tennis courts, a beach volley court and mountain bikes.
Desert Springs plays host to many tour professionals and Elite Groups. 2015 saw the resort host both the England Ashes Team for their pre-series get together and the final event on the PGA Europro Tour. The Europro event returned in October of 2016, showcasing many of the young players who were contending for their place on the Challenge Tour, the final step to the main European Tour.
From 2023 the resort is host to the second stage of the DP World Tour Q School.
One of the recent visitors was three times European Tour Winner and Sky Golf pundit Nick Dougherty, and this is what he had to say about the resort:
“The resort is one of the best golf resorts I have been to in Europe. The facilities for practice are second to none and Desert Springs is a great place for players of all standards to come to improve their game and have fun at the same time.
The location and host facilities were absolutely beyond our expectations and the accommodation provided was excellent. The resort staff were overly helpful, friendly and amazing!”
Nick Dougherty
The Indiana Golf Course
Now to the main event, the golf course itself…….
Inspired by the famous desert courses of Arizona and California, The Indiana course is the first desert course in Europe and has been built to the full USGA specifications and quality standards of these desert courses, now famous for the quality of golf that they offer. It presents unforgettable views, and golf of such a dramatic nature that it can be said to have taken not only desert golf, but also golf in general in this part of Spain to a new level of excellence.
The practice facilities are second to none and include:
- A 20 bay covered driving range with permanent astro turf mats
- A grass practice area of 2000 sq.m.
- Target greens
- Fairway and green side bunkers
- Putting green
- Chipping green
- 2 Huxley All Weather Practice Areas
It is no coincidence that Desert Springs is used by both the English and Welsh Golf Unions as the Winter base for their Elite Teams.
The course was designed by Peter McEvoy and this is what he has to say about it:
"We have created a course which really can be enjoyed by players of all different standards, we have kept the fairways generous and ensured that the less expert player can enjoy and improve his game whilst absorbing the awesome landscape and views that encompass The Indiana.
On the other hand, every hole has features which can be brought into play; the springs, watercourses, dry river beds, rock and cactus areas and bunkers are strategically located to examine the skills of golf's leading players when playing off the championship t
