Golf Del Sur

Golf del Sur occupies a stretch of Tenerife's south coast in the municipality of San Miguel de Abona, a resort belt that grew up around fairways rather than around a big sandy bay. It sits inland of the coast road between the quieter developments of Costa del Silencio and the larger, livelier resort blocks of Costa Adeje and Playa de las Américas. AENA records 13,969,678 passengers at Tenerife South Airport in 2025, an all-time record, and that airport is the one most visitors to this corner of the island fly into. The area's identity is golf: courses, driving ranges, golf-facing apartments and a slower rhythm than the neon strips further west. This page reports what the official sources hold about the area and its surroundings, and says plainly where a detail needs confirming with a venue, because no verified fact sheet exists for the resort itself.

Where Is Golf del Sur and What Kind of Resort Is It?

Golf del Sur is a compact, golf-centred resort area on Tenerife's south coast, within the municipality of San Miguel de Abona, sitting between the quieter Costa del Silencio stretch and the big resort towns of Costa Adeje and Los Cristianos, with Tenerife South Airport the natural arrival point for the area.

It belongs to the drier, sunnier half of the island. AEMET's climate station at Tenerife South Airport, at 64 m above sea level, records a July mean daily maximum of 27.7 Celsius and zero days of measurable rain in both June and July on the 1981 to 2010 normals, against 132 mm of rain across the whole year as AEMET publishes it. That is the climate the area's golf trade is built on: courses that stay playable through the northern European winter, and apartments marketed at long-stay visitors chasing winter sun.

The resort is not a town with a long history in the verified record. It is a modern development, and this site holds no verified founding date, no course-by-course inventory and no figure for its year-round population, so none is invented here. What the official statistics do hold is the wider picture: the island counted about 960,000 registered residents on 1 January 2025 across its 31 municipalities, and 649,614 tourists arrived by air in January 2026 alone, the single busiest month in the FRONTUR-Canarias series for the part year published so far.

For orientation, the neighbouring areas each have their own character and their own pages on this site. To the east lie the fishing-town atmosphere of Las Galletas and Costa del Silencio; to the west, the wind- and kite-surf town of El Médano under Montaña Roja; and further along the coast, the hotel belts of Costa Adeje and Los Cristianos. A wider rundown of the whole island sits in things to do in Tenerife.

What's Special About Amarillo Golf Tenerife?

Amarillo Golf is the golf development that gives the Golf del Sur area its name and its original identity, a course-and-housing project on the south coast whose fairways and clubhouse anchor the resort; this site holds no verified fee sheet, hole count or opening date for it, so every playing detail should be confirmed directly with the club before you travel.

The honest position on Amarillo Golf is that the verified fact file for this site, which is built line by line from official pages, carries no row for the course itself. No green fee, no tee-time system, no dress code and no hole layout has been read on a primary source for this page. Rather than repeat the numbers that circulate on second-hand travel pages, this guide states the checkable frame and sends you to the club for the rest.

What can be said with a source behind it is the golf context of the island. Golf on Tenerife is a winter-sun trade, and the island's courses sit almost entirely in the frost-free south and low north. The planning questions a golfer actually asks, and where each answer has to come from, look like this:

The wider island golf scene, including the courses further along the south coast, is covered in the guide to golf in Tenerife, which is the better starting point for comparing options than any single course page.

How Much Is a Round of Golf at Golf Del Sur, Tenerife?

No verified green fee for Golf del Sur exists in this site's fact file, so no number is printed here; green fees on the island generally move with season, day of the week and tee time, and the only reliable figure is the one on the club's own booking page on the day you want to play, which is where you should confirm it.

That answer is deliberately blunt because the alternative is worse. Travel pages quote green fees that age badly, and a price copied from a blog is not a price, it is a rumour with a euro sign. What the verified facts do hold is the pattern that drives every golf price in the south: demand peaks in the northern winter, when AEMET's south-airport station records January sunshine of 193 hours and a mean daily maximum of 21.7 Celsius, and demand softens in the island's summer, when the same station records zero rain days in June and July. Courses price around that curve. Confirm the fee for your exact date with the club.

If the golf is booked and the rest of the party wants a day on the water, the south coast is one of Europe's most reliable places to find whales and dolphins. The World Cetacean Alliance records that the Tenerife-La Gomera marine area became a designated Whale Heritage Area in January 2021, with a unique resident population of pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins inside a Special Area of Conservation. Boats authorised to watch them must fly the Barco Azul flag under Decreto 178/2000, the Canary decree that also sets the approach rules: no boat within 60 m, at most three boats within 500 m, a four-knot limit inside 500 m, and no swimming within 500 m.

Is Golf del Sur a Good Place to Stay in Tenerife?

Golf del Sur suits travellers who want a quiet, low-rise base built around golf, apartment living and easy airport access, and it suits them less well if the priority is a swimmable town beach, nightlife within walking distance or a dense old-town scene, all of which sit closer to Costa Adeje, Los Cristianos or Puerto de la Cruz.

The case for it is structural rather than scenic. It is close to Tenerife South Airport, whose AENA title is Tenerife Sur, so transfers are short on a holiday where golf bags are involved. It is quieter than the big resort strips. It sits within a short drive of the beaches and marinas of the southwest, where the whale-watching fleet departs. And its climate is the driest end of a dry island: the south-airport station records just 15.2 days with a millimetre or more of rain across a whole year on the 1981 to 2010 normals. Everything else covered here is indexed on Tenerife Travel Guide.

The case against is equally structural. This site's fact file holds no verified inventory of the area's own beaches, bars or restaurants, and no walking-time or driving-time figures are stated here because none were measured on a primary source. What the tourist board's own pages do record is that the south coast's famous golden-sand beaches are elsewhere: Playa del Duque in Costa Adeje is described by the tourist board as a grey sandy beach, while the golden sand the board writes of belongs to Las Teresitas near Santa Cruz and Las Vistas in Arona. Beach priorities should be planned around that, not around assumptions.

For a stay in the area, comparing accommodation across the south coast is the practical move, and you can check live availability for places to stay near Golf del Sur alongside the area guides on this site. There is no per-night tourist tax to factor into a Tenerife budget: no official page read by this site shows a lodging tax in force or approved on the island. The charges that do exist are per-booking activity fees, such as the Teide trail fees and the Masca and Barranco del Infierno tickets, none of which touches a golf holiday base.

What Is the Weather Like in Golf del Sur Through the Year?

Golf del Sur shares the climate AEMET records at its nearest official station, Tenerife South Airport at 64 m: mean daily maxima from 21.7 Celsius in January to 28.4 Celsius in August, almost no rain from May to August, and 132 mm of rain across the full year on the 1981 to 2010 normals, making it one of the driest corners of the island.

The table below is AEMET's own data for the south-airport station, the closest official record to this coast. Note the dataset periods: the air normals are 1981 to 2010, while the sea-surface figures further down are a different dataset on a 1991 to 2020 period, and the two are never blended into one claim.

For golfers, the numbers translate simply. Winter is the premium season precisely because it is warm rather than hot, with January mean daily maxima under 22 Celsius and rain on fewer than two days a month on average. Summer rounds are dry but warmer, with mean daily maxima above 27 Celsius from July to September, so early tee times are the standard advice any course will give.

The sea tells its own story. NOAA's 1991 to 2020 series for the water off the south coast shows the sea at its warmest in September and October at 23.7 Celsius and at its coolest in March at 19.1 Celsius, which is why the shoulder months, not the peak of summer, are when the water feels best for a post-round swim.

How Do You Get Around from Golf del Sur?

Visitors reach Golf del Sur's corner of the coast through Tenerife South Airport, served by TITSA bus lines 10, 40, 711, 343 and 415 as the operator's own airport page lists, and once there they pay for public transport: single tickets, the EUR 10 day travelcard or the EUR 50 seven-day travelcard, because the free-travel subsidy in force since 1 January 2026 applies only to Canary resident passes.

That last point is worth restating plainly, because it is the most commonly garbled fact on the island. The Canary government's 100% subsidy on passes and multi-trip tickets, in force since 1 January 2026 under Real Decreto-ley 17/2025, requires residency in the Canary Islands and a personalised card. A holidaymaker does not qualify. The visitor products are these:

Taxis are white and metered from the start of the trip, with a fixed price agreeable in advance for excursions, as the tourist board's taxi page states. There is no tram link to either airport: Metrotenerife's fares page states no such connection, and the tram network serves Santa Cruz and La Laguna in the northeast. Car hire is the flexible option for golf bags, and the island's driving rules, including the 0.5 g/l blood-alcohol limit the DGT page refers to, are covered in the site's driving guide.

What Else Can You Do Near Golf del Sur?

Beyond the fairways, the area's position on the south coast puts whale-watching boats, coastal walks, water sports and the island's big excursions within easy reach, from the eco catamarans out of Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje to paragliding, jet skis and the stargazing tours into Teide National Park, whose 5,242,653 recorded visits in 2024 made it the most visited park in Spain's national park network.

The sea is the obvious second act to a golf holiday. The whale-watching fleet is regulated by Decreto 178/2000, and the rules a responsible operator follows are specific:

An eco yacht safari with a swim stop is the style of trip that fits the area best, and the highest-reviewed option on this site's roster is the Travelin' Lady eco yacht whale and dolphin safari out of Los Cristianos.

For something airborne, a parasailing flight from Costa Adeje gives ten minutes above the water with the whole south coast in view, and it is a short hop from the Golf del Sur side of the island.

Inland, the volcano is the island's other headline. Teide National Park, declared by decree on 22 January 1954 and inscribed by UNESCO on 2 July 2007, is free to drive through, and no official page lists a park entry fee. The two things that do carry per-booking public fees are the trails: since Monday 19 January 2026 the 09:00 to 17:00 slots on the summit trail PNT 10 cost EUR 15 for visitors and EUR 6 for residents of the other Canary Islands, free only for Tenerife residents and children, with the reservation made on Tenerife ON. The cable car is a separate operator ticket, stopping at La Rambleta at 3,555 m, and it does not reach the summit. If a golf holiday wants one big day out, a sunset and stargazing tour into the park is the classic choice, and the island's status as a Starlight Tourist Destination, listed by the Fundación Starlight for El Teide in October 2013, is the reason the skies are worth the drive.

For a city day instead, Santa Cruz de Tenerife rewards a slower look, and a bike or e-bike tour of its highlights is one way to cover the ground with a guide who knows the stops.

The south coast around the resort has no free walking tour listed on GuruWalk: the three English-guided, pay-what-you-want walks carded on this site all run in the north, in La Orotava, Puerto de la Cruz and the historic centre of Santa Cruz. That is what is listed, not proof that nothing else exists, and a day trip north is the way to join one.

Common Questions About Golf del Sur