Two years after a new concession began, San Roque keeps Perry Dye’s character intact, and the wind off the Strait still decides which club comes out of the bag.
San Roque Golf & Resort is a Perry Dye golf course, built with the collaboration of Severiano Ballesteros. In 2024 it began a new chapter under Berwick Real Estate as concessionaire, and the improvements are now done.
Close to Sotogrande
The resort sits very close to Sotogrande, a few minutes by car from Valderrama and Real Club de Golf Sotogrande. It slots easily into any golf trip around the area.
A Perry Dye golf course among hills and nature
Perry Dye built the 18 holes with Severiano Ballesteros on hilly ground beside a protected nature reserve. There are no buildings in sight, and the Mediterranean appears in the distance. That setting has made the course a refuge for a range of species, which the management looks after as part of its commitment to sustainability.
The holes of the Perry Dye golf course
Dye’s hand is recognisable from the first tee. Railway sleepers hold up banks and bunker edges. The greens are large and undulating, and the fairways thread through holm and cork oaks.
The 7th is the hardest hole on the card, a par five that starts with the sea on the horizon. It finishes at a green guarded by bunkers and by a lake on the left. The 12th, by contrast, invites a gamble. It is a short par four that long hitters can attack from the elevated tee, with a 70-metre bunker waiting on the right. And at the par-three 13th, a bunker runs alongside the hole from tee to green, one of the designer’s signatures.
The Strait wind and the Open de España 2006
The Perry Dye golf course hosted the Open de España in 2006 and has kept both its character and its most decisive factor, the wind from the Strait. The 17th sums it up. It is a short par three from an elevated tee that, depending on the wind, can call for a nine-iron or a driver. Twenty years on, that moment of doubt on the tee is still part of the game.
Improvements to the Perry Dye golf course since the reopening
Since the reopening in May 2024, the course has kept getting better. The reception and changing rooms have been renovated and the irrigation system updated. It is work the player never sees but notices in the fairways and greens.
After the round, La Criolla
After the round, La Criolla is waiting. It is a genuine Argentine grill serving premium cuts of beef and gourmet burgers, in a welcoming setting for the whole family.
