Real Club de Golf Las Brisas

Real Las Brisas is another course located in the beautiful, golf rich Andalusian region of southern Spain. Like its cousins Valderrama and Sotogrande 30 miles south, Las Brisas was built by Robert Trent Jones in the late 1960s, shortly after he completed Sotogrande. For American golfers, the vibe is southern California, perhaps Carlsbad to be specific, with flattish holes strung through a wide, narrow property of oaks, palms, olive and cork trees just a mile from the Mediterranean Sea under the guise of mountains. Jones used a canal ingeniously throughout the design, running the water alongside holes and in front of greens demanding brave aerial attacks. Kyle Phillips remodeled the course in 2014 and 2015, reviving Trent Jones’ jagged bunkers and runway tees, and created several new holes on the second nine including the sixth, seventh and eighth to better utilize the limited space and improve flow.