Cyprus has few courses, but they are varied and often open onto the sea or the hills. The island's golf is centred on Paphos, on the south-west coast, where four 18-hole courses lie within half an hour of town: Eléa, designed by Nick Faldo, Aphrodite Hills, on two plateaus above the sea divided by a ravine, Minthis, on the heights of Tsada beside a 12th-century monastery, and Secret Valley, at the bottom of a valley of coloured rock. Further east, Limassol Greens, a Cabell B. Robinson layout by the Akrotiri salt lake, makes a day trip from Nicosia, the capital, which has no course of its own but deserves two or three nights for its old town and Venetian walls. In the north of the island, at Esentepe, Korineum climbs a hillside facing the sea at the foot of the Kyrenia range.
The best seasons are spring, from March to May, or from February around Paphos, and autumn, in October and November; winter stays mild but wetter, and the very hot summer is for dawn tee times only. Around Paphos, short distances make it easy to combine golf, the Roman mosaics of Nea Paphos and wine villages in a single trip. We arrange tailor-made trips there: reserved tee times, private transfers from Paphos or Larnaca, carefully chosen hotels and well-kept meze tables.
Esentepe is a village on the north coast of Cyprus, some twenty kilometres east of Kyrenia, at the foot of the Pentadaktylos range. People come for a single course, Korineum, a par 72 of 6,232 metres opened in 2007 on a hill of olive and carob trees facing the sea, with its own hotel and beach. The best seasons run from March to May and from October to November.
Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus in the centre of the island, has no golf course: the nearest championship courses are Limassol Greens, an eighteen-hole Cabell B. Robinson design opened in 2025, about 1 hour 15 minutes by road, and the courses of the Paphos area, such as Minthis, almost two hours away. Visitors come for two or three nights of culture, the Venetian ramparts, the old town and the dividing line, alongside a golf stay on the coast, ideally from March to May and in October and November.
Paphos, in south-west Cyprus, brings together four eighteen-hole courses less than half an hour from town: Eléa, designed by Nick Faldo, Aphrodite Hills, a Cabell Robinson layout split by a ravine, Minthis, in the wine-growing hills, and Secret Valley, at the bottom of a valley of colourful rocks. Golfers come for varied golf in a mild climate, ideally from February to May and in October and November.
