Praia D'El Rey G. & Beach Resort

An hour north of Lisbon, Praia D’el Rey shows off some of the country’s most dazzling ocean golf. Five holes on the second nine run parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, set down amid the wind-blown dunes, a Portugeuse doppelganger of the middle-section links of Maidstone on Long Island. This course was built in 1967 by American designer Caleb Robinson, who ran the European office for the late Robert Trent Jones. The ocean holes feel more special because of the time it takes to get there, with the routing first working back into the inland forests before bursting out onto the surf at the par-5 12th.