Terras da Comporta

Fescue fairways in Alentejo sand.

Terras da Comporta lies on the sandy strip between the Sado estuary and the Atlantic, at the southern end of the Tróia peninsula and about an hour’s drive from Lisbon. Its first course, Dunas, is by David McLay Kidd, who says it plays as a links, something southern Europe almost never offers. A second 18, Torre, opened in the second half of 2025 as Sergio Garcia’s first design. Both are open to paying visitors through the club’s own online tee sheet, and the village of Comporta, with its rice fields and long empty beaches, makes the rest of the trip easy.

Terras da Comporta green fees and tee times.

Both courses are booked on the Terras da Comporta GolfManager page, linked from the club’s website, and the tee sheet lists public rates with no membership needed. On the dates checked in November 2026, online green fees were sold for groups of at least two players, with 18-hole starts running from about 8:30am to just before 1pm and nine-hole slots from 1:30pm into the late afternoon. Third-party listings say a valid handicap certificate is expected; the club does not state a limit, so ask golf@comporta.com or call +351 269 096 583 if you are travelling with a high handicapper or a beginner. For lessons, buggy details or groups, the same contacts apply.

The courses at Terras da Comporta.

Dunas (David McLay Kidd, 2023)

Par 71 and 6,646 metres from Tee 66, falling to 3,847 metres from the most forward of six tees. The par threes are the talking point: the 3rd stretches to 235 metres, the 14th to 194, while the 6th and 17th are short. The 12th is the longest hole at 557 metres. Top 100 Golf Courses ranked it number one in Portugal in 2025, and the 2024 World Golf Awards named it the world’s best course.

Torre (Sergio Garcia, 2025)

The 2017 Masters champion’s first signature course, par 72, opened in the second half of 2025 about five minutes from Dunas, and was named the World’s Best New Golf Course at the 2025 World Golf Awards. The club describes a reception and bag drop where your buggy waits with water and a personalised bag tag, and practice areas set into the landscape. It shares the Dunas booking system and, on the dates checked, the same 18-hole visitor rates.

The round, in perspective.

Kidd first came to Comporta in 2008 for the Espírito Santo family. Nine holes were grassed by mid-2014 when the family bank collapsed and work stopped; the course then sat idle for six years with the sprinklers still running. Vanguard Properties bought the estate in 2018, brought Kidd back, and his former shaper Conor Walsh rebuilt it through the pandemic. Dunas opened in October 2023. The holes climb and drop across big sand valleys about a kilometre from the ocean, among pines and scrub. Fairways are fescue and greens are creeping bentgrass, a combination almost unknown in southern Europe, so the ball runs and the turf stays firm. From the back tee it measures 6,646 metres, par 71, with six tee boxes on every hole. Golf Course Architecture singled out the short 6th, played to a green in a saddle between two dunes, and the 17th, the shortest hole on the card at 145 metres from the back.

Know before you go.

Booking

Club’s own online tee sheet; minimum two players for online rates

Tee times

18 holes in the morning; 9 holes from about 1:30pm

Buggies

Available at both courses

Contact

golf@comporta.com, +351 269 096 583

Clubhouse hours

Restaurant and pro shop 7:30am–6:30pm

Make the trip work.

The Dunas clubhouse has reception, a pro shop and a 60-seat restaurant with a covered terrace, both open 7:30am to 6:30pm, so an early tee time leaves the afternoon for lunch and the beach. The four-hectare academy has a 310-metre range with 50 bays, a short-game area and putting greens, and runs lessons on the range or out on the course. Kidd says properly kept fescue can take buggy traffic. The sand off the fairways is the real hazard: a playing partner of the Golf Course Architecture writer found it six times in the first four holes.

Lisbon Airport is the gateway; the club describes Dunas as about an hour from the city, and you should allow longer from the airport and for bridge traffic over the Tagus. The A2 motorway south, then the N253 through Alcácer do Sal, is the usual road route. From Setúbal, car ferries cross the Sado to Tróia, and Comporta is a short drive down the peninsula from the ferry slip. The club’s address is Estrada N261, Carvalhal.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. Golf do Estoril (73 km) · 2. Penha Longa (76 km) · 3. Oitavos Dunes (77 km) · Compare all Lisbon Coast tee times

Somewhere to settle in.

Comporta village has small hotels rather than resorts. AlmaLusa Comporta, in the centre, has 53 rooms including 31 suites, a saltwater pool and a rooftop bar, and is roughly 15 minutes from Dunas. For a bigger choice, Tróia has hotels and apartments at the tip of the peninsula, and Setúbal across the water has more again.

Make a trip of it.

The nearest other course, Troia Golf, is closed for a full renovation and due to reopen in early 2027. Until then, the classic pairing is the Lisbon coast: Oitavos Dunes and Penha Longa are roughly 90 minutes to two hours north by road. Off the course, the stilted fishing piers at Carrasqueira sit on the estuary a short drive south-east, dolphins live in the Sado, and the beaches at Comporta, Carvalhal and Pego run for miles with almost no development behind them.

Find your season.

July and August bring Lisbon families to the Comporta beaches and the hottest afternoons, which is when the earliest morning slots matter most. Spring and autumn are the sweet spot. Summer also brings a cheaper ‘summer special’ 18-hole rate on the tee sheet (€138 in July 2027), which runs into the early afternoon.