Oitavos Dunes Golf Club
Cascais, Portugal
"We had a special site, a great client and the freedom to design a wonderful golf course. We are thrilled with the end result, which was recently ranked in GOLF Magazine�s World Top 100. People tell us the course feels like it has been there forever, that is the best compliment we can hear because it means we successfully blended the golf course into the existing landscape to create something that looks and feels natural � a course that will endure the test of time."- John Strawn
Hills/Forrest President
Oitavos Dunes Golf Club at Quinta da Marinha is located 30 minutes from the Portuguese
capital of Lisbon, just outside the resort village of Cascais. Developed by three
generations of the Champalimaud family, the Quinta da Marinha resort community is
located entirely within the Sintra-Cascais National Park. It is considered the most
exclusive golf and leisure development in Portugal, with equestrian, tennis, golf
and spa facilities set amid stands of rare umbrella pines high above the dunes.
Shortly after it opened, Oitavos was the first course in Europe named a Certified
Gold Audubon Signature Sanctuary, the highest designation awarded by Audubon International's
Signature Sanctuary Program, golf's strictest and most prestigious environmental
management program.