Tenerife, Canary Islands · Spain · Severiano Ballesteros
Golf Buenavista del Norte
James Kinloch
Golf Travel Specialist · played this course
Buenavista del Norte is the Canary Islands course that I recommend most enthusiastically, and nobody outside of serious golf circles has ever heard of it. Seve Ballesteros designed it on the northwest coast of Tenerife with the Atlantic Ocean as the boundary on three sides and the Teno massif rising behind it. The result is a course of extraordinary scenic quality that also happens to be a very good golf course.
The Canaries get dismissed because they're easy to reach and affordable. That's not a criticism — that's a reason to go every autumn. Buenavista at £85 per round is as good as anything I've played in the Algarve at nearly three times the price. The opening holes climb through banana plantations. The later holes drop back toward the ocean cliffs. The whole thing is remarkable and almost entirely unknown.
Stay in the north of Tenerife for this — Puerto de la Cruz or Garachico rather than the resort strip in the south.
Signature hole
Par-4 14th, 410 yards, cliffs and ocean
"The tee shot plays over a valley to a fairway that runs parallel to the ocean cliff. Atlantic waves are audible and visible on the left throughout. The green sits above the sea."
Designer
Severiano Ballesteros
Par
72
Yardage
6,359
Green fee
from £85
Best for
Best time to go
Year-round. October to February gives the best temperatures and fewest crowds.
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