Success

• Navarino Dunes has quickly gained a reputation as a high quality golf resort, helping to promote Greece for the first time as a serious golf destination.
• Opened in 2010 it has already been voted one of the World’s Most Exciting New Courses by Golf World.

The Brief

• Create a flagship signature resort course with excellent practice facilities to accompany two new five star deluxe hotels developed by TEMES, a premier developer of luxury mixed-use resorts.

The Challenge

• The golf course design must demonstrate a commitment to environmental responsibility and complement its natural and historic surroundings.
• Important archaeological sites must be avoided.
• The course should be playable and fun for average and below average abilities, but challenging enough to host occasional professional and amateur tournaments.

The Solutions

• Bernhard Langer employed as signature designer to help attract important German and northern European markets.
• Wide fairways present generous playing areas and large greens make inviting targets. Strategic bunkering and plenty of movement on the putting surfaces rewards accuracy and provides an element of fun.
• Extensive practice facilities include a driving range, practice chipping and putting greens and a dedicated short game practice area.
• The style of the golf course defines its unique character and sets it aside from other courses in this region of the Mediterranean.
• Extensive native planting and replanting emphasizes the traditional landscape character of the region. All trees removed during golf course construction replanted on the course or elsewhere on the project.
• 130,000 metres of geothermal heat collectors laid below several fairways to aid the heating and cooling of the buildings.
• The need to respond to on-site archaeological discoveries required a flexible design approach.

Status

The course opened for play in May 2007.

Course Stats

• Designed in association with: Bernhard Langer
• Client: TEMES
• Course: 18 Holes
• Length: 6200 metres, Par: 72

Contact Details

NAVARINO DUNES
Messinia
Costa Navarino
24001, Greece
T: (30)(272) 309 6000
W: www.costanavarino.com