Troia Golf Club - Portugal

Troia is one of Portugal's great courses and its secluded location, on the narrow sandbar of Troia that is reached by a 20-minute ferry ride across the Sado Estuary from Setubal, only adds to its mystique. The sandy promontory by the sea was the ideal landscape for Robert Trent Jones to create a Portuguese-style Pine Valley. The narrow, rippling fairways run through tall sentinel pines and are engulfed by the sandy scrub that substitutes for rough, with the course bracketed by the coast and the Arcibida Mountains. Opened in 1980, Troia quickly proved its mettle at the 1983 Portuguese Open, when the winner Sam Torrance was the only player in the field to break par.