The Corfu Golf Club’s beautiful course has been praised by many as one of golf’s best kept secrets in Europe. It was designed by the famous Swiss based architect, Donald Harradine and he has blended the natural resources of the lovely Ropa Valley with man made hazards to make the course a good but fair test. It is as enjoyable for the scratch player as it is for the long handicap one.

The tree lined fairways and the sand traps combine with the several lakes and meandering streams, to make an attractive picture against a backcloth of high hills. A modern irrigation system keeps the course in perfect condition at all times.

From March to November and sometimes beyond, there is warm sunshine and blue skies in Corfu but even in high summer on the golf course there is a cooling breeze blowing in from the sea.

Golf is also played throughout the winter in Corfu, so anytime is golf time! There are three sets of tees thus providing enjoyment for all categories of players.

The turf is very good and easy to walk on and every hole on the course provides infinite variety - and its own problems. Corfu is a great golf course and it's fame is spreading rapidly as golfers come from all over the world to test their skill at golf and to enjoy an island which offers spectacular scenery, fine hotels, good food and a warm welcome. The course is open 7 days a week

Golf Course in Greece

Golf is a game in which a ball is struck with a club from a prepared area, known as the "teeing ground" - the starting place for the hole, defined by two tee-markers - across fairway and roughly to a second prepared area, which has a hole in it, known as the "putting green". The object of the game is to complete what is known as a hole by playing a ball from the teeing ground into the hole on the putting green in the fewest possible number of strokes.

A "round of golf" consists of playing 9 or 18 such successive holes.There are basically two forms of play, one which is decided by holes won and lost (match play) and the other which is decided by the total number of strokes taken to complete the round (stroke play).

"Match play" is a competition format in which the round is played with the purpose of winning individual holes. Scoring is kept by comparing the holes won by each player.

"Stroke play" refers to a round of golf in which the score is kept by adding the cumulative total of strokes taken throughout the round. The competitor who plays the stipulated round or rounds in the fewest strokes is the winner.

Greece has not yet developed a comprehensive golf culture, but there are still some courses to allow the visitor to explore a different kind of "Classic" in Greece. However, Greece is a country with a mild Mediterranean climate and an average temperature in winter months that render it an ideal golf location in autumn, winter and spring.

Golf enthusiasts or merely vacationers that wish to try out this sport can choose from one of the country's five greatest locations: the Glyfada Golf Course, a well established, pine-studded course near Athens; the Porto Carras Golf and Country Club in Northern Greece, at Chalkidiki, the famous three-finger peninsula; the Afandou Golf on sun-kissed Rhodes, where an International Championship Cup is organized twice a year; the Corfu Golf Club on enchanting Corfu; and last but not least, the Crete Golf Club at Chersonissos, an ultramodern 18-hole course open year-round.

A number of tour agencies offer several golf tours combined with visits to the classical sites of Greece and the Greek islands.