Golf is my passion. We have two eighteen-hole golf courses in San Miguel de Allende. Both of these courses are really nice.
The one that has been here for a long time now is called Malanquín, which the expat community founded about 45 years ago. It was originally a nine-hole golf course and they recently added the second nine holes just about 6 years ago. Malanquín has really nice old trees as it has been there for so long. They have really nice pines that blend into the atmosphere and the desert of San Miguel de Allende.
The other golf course here in San Miguel is a resort golf course designed by Nick Faldo called Ventanas de San Miguel (Windows of San Miguel) or more commonly, Las Ventanas. It is an eighteen-hole, signature golf course and it is just amazing. It was built about 7 years ago. The Latino Golf Tournament, which is a tournament where the best golfers of Mexico played against the best golfers of Latin America, was held at Las Ventanas last year. The golfers that joined that tournament would get points to play for the PGA. So it is pretty awesome. Las Ventanas golf course is much easier to play. It is a much friendlier golf course. It is wide open and it is 71 par. Malanquín is a 72 par.
I belong to the Malanquín Golf Club. To become a member, you buy a share that would only cost you US $10,000. The monthly cost or the maintenance is only 2,500 pesos ($135) per family. That is the fee that will give you the ability to play at 28 different golf courses around San Miguel de Allende, which is an awesome deal. Malanquín has an exchange program, where if you are a member, it allows you to play at these golf courses that are not farther than 2 and a half hours away from San Miguel de Allende. Some of them are just 45 minutes away like the ones in Celaya or Queretaro. If you are a retiree, you can go and play for free in any of those golf courses as long as you belong to the Malanquín in San Miguel de Allende. There are at least three golf courses in Queretaro. There is a really long and incredible golf course in San Juan del Rio, which is about an hour and a half away from San Miguel. You can also play in the city of Morella, or in San Luis Potosi, Salamanca, Leon, etc. There are two golf courses in the city of Celaya, which is only 35 minutes away from San Miguel. Their country club called Campestre de Celaya is for sure one of the nicest golf courses I’ve ever played and I have played golf almost all over the world. There are really a lot of options for playing golf in and around San Miguel.
There is a third golf course in San Miguel that is par three, located inside a gated community called Zirandaro in which they did a really good job but it is an executive golf course so it is only nine holes. If you own a property in Zirandaro, you pay a special rate but if you are from outside Zirandaro then you pay a green fee.
(Logo for Malanquín Golf Club, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, pictured.)
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