Beautiful golf course, with immaculate greens. We really enjoyed the two rounds on Morgado. Fairways in excellent condition, tee boxes well-maintained and the course was divotted with attention by the staff. Bunkers well prepared for the day's play. Driving range OK, although groundstaff decided the start raking bunkers on the range while about 20 players were practising, meaning that we all had to aim shots to the left considerably. This was off-putting (as we were conscious of not hitting the staff working in front of us!). This type of work could really have been done at a quieter time of day.
The only disappointing aspect of this course was the 'fine' received due to the alleged damage to one of our buggys. The front axle had been slightly bent (allegedly) while in use on the golf course. The member of staff involved in this interrupted our post-round drinks in the bar to inform of the 50Euro fine that had to be paid as we had "hit something". The driver of this buggy did not hit anything. The axle damage may have been explained by the plethora of pot holes on both Morgado and Alamos cart paths, which are obviously not attended to by staff, as opposed to reckless driving. The staff obviously did not want to hear this. Unfortunately, we did not take picture / video evidence prior to taking out our buggys, so could not prove any foul play / scam. It was interesting that the member of staff who took the buggys back from us didn't report any damage, it was only an hour or so later that another member of staff miraculously located the alleged damage, and saw fit to disturb us while we enjoyed our time in the bar. I'm sure we were not the only group to have 'hit something' that week in any case - we will be reviewing this golf course separately to warn other visitors about this buggy scam, which I'm sure is quite profitable for the course. On Day 3 when we also hired buggys for the Alamos course, we were careful to take picture and video evidence of the buggy conditions before taking them out. We drove them in the same way around Alamos (arguably with cart paths in a worse state than Morgado), and unsurprisingly no fines were brought (indeed, the buggy staff didn't seem to want to check the buggys at all when we returned them!)
