Andalusia Meets the Black Forest: Golf Between High Luxury and a Sense of Home

Dear readers

Today we’re bringing you two worlds and one feeling: having time.

The Finca Cortesin in Andalusia stands for high luxury, with a golf course that combines drama and design.

The Hotel Tanne in the Black Forest brings down-to-earth charm, forest air, hearty food and the world’s only treehouse sauna.

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Finca Cortesin –

for those who love understatement.

Just a short flight away, in the gentle hill country of Casares between Marbella and Sotogrande, the Finca Cortesin Hotel Golf & Spa sits like a private Andalusian estate, discreetly secluded and uncompromisingly exclusive.

Forget classic hotel complexes: here, you’re welcomed as though you were visiting friends in the country. We’re not saying that because it sounds good — we’re saying it because we’ve been there ourselves.

All-Suite Concept

Here, luxury begins with space: a consistent all-suite concept with just 67 suites, generous floor plans and ceilings around four metres high.

Award-winning Luxury

Among others: the Condé Nast Traveler Gold List 2024, and the Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2022 and 2023, with top rankings in Spain and Portugal, plus placings worldwide.

Signature Spa

A 2,200 m² spa with a 25-metre indoor saltwater pool, extensive thermal areas, Thai massages, and a snow cabin as a special highlight.

Discreet, stylish, restorative.

It’s a silence you can actually hear. Even in the morning, as the sun glitters over the perfectly manicured green, all you hear is the contented hum of cicadas and the quiet song of birds. Add to that a scent cocktail of Spanish roses, freshly cut grass and a hint of sea. Sounds saccharine? Maybe. But that’s exactly how it feels to wake up with the window open at the Finca Cortesin.

The style of the Finca Cortesin features antique wooden doors that once hung in European castles, opening onto courtyards and rooms that breathe history. Traditional Andalusian architecture meets Castilian austerity and a touch of Moorish playfulness, complemented by English fabrics and delicate Indian or Moroccan accents. The interior doesn’t feel “decorated” — it feels as though it “grew” over generations, like the country seat of an art-loving family.

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Why these 18 holes belong on your bucket list:

At the very latest since the 2023 Solheim Cup, the world knows what we already did: this golf course is a stage, and the script was written by architect Cabell B. Robinson.

Pampering-Level Service

On the range, neatly stacked pyramids of balls await you. Out on the course, the course assistant turns up with fresh fruit, cold towels — and a refreshing gazpacho, just when you’re despairing over a bogey at 30°C. After the round, your clubs are cleaned while you’re already enjoying your first drink in the clubhouse.

Cuisine That Erases the Scorecard

After the round, the club terrace awaits. A glass of wine, a view across the green, and that quiet sense that everything here is calibrated to world class.

In culinary terms, we’re a long way beyond the classic “fish-and-chips league”. Whether you’re celebrating your score with a glass of champagne or drowning it in a hearty Rioja: the kitchen here plays off a handicap of zero.

Green Velvet with Fangs

Forget motorway-straight fairways. Cabell B. Robinson didn’t design holiday golf here for relaxed

“aimless swinging.”

This is a strategic zigzag course through a valley that forgives no mistakes.

Every fairway, every green has competition DNA.

Sergio García even compares the greens to Augusta. That really says it all.

Nineteen on Tour

From tee time to me time at the Finca Cortesin, experienced by us. We take you behind the white gate of Finca Cortesin.

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Golf & Wellness in the Black Forest

The golf courses are set within a varied landscape of forests, hills and open panoramas. With the Schwarzwald PLUS Card, you golf for free — provided you check into the Wellness Hotel Tanne Tonbach in Baiersbronn. Several attractive golf courses lie a short drive away, ideal for anyone after variety who also prefers a homely hotel.

A Love Story with Ticino Roots

Jutta and Jörg Möhrle run the “Tanne” in the fifth generation, continually putting their creative ideas into practice at the hotel. They fondly call their team their “lucky charms”.

The two of them met, incidentally, in sunny Ticino. Perhaps that’s why we, as Swiss guests, feel so instantly understood here. They simply know how we tick: warmth, yes; pushiness, no.

Germany’s Most Spectacular Sauna

The heart of the Wellness Hotel Tanne Tonbach is the sauna that all of Germany is talking about: suspended around ten metres up among the treetops, with large panoramic windows and a view over the Tonbach valley. And the best part: it’s not an off-the-shelf concept, but a genuine passion project of the house, born from a childhood dream of a treehouse — today a true one-off in the Black Forest.

And because one highlight rarely comes alone, four further lovingly staged theme saunas await — each with its own character, but all with the same goal: winding you down completely.

A Golfer’s Heart,

What More Could You Want?

With Schwarzwald Plus, you play 9 holes from May to October — free from 2 nights, across five courses in the region: Golf Club Baden-Baden, Schloss Weitenburg, Domäne Niederreutin, Alpirsbach and Freudenstadt. And if you fancy more, it can often be extended to 18 holes for a small surcharge, subject to availability.

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Golf Unlimited

5 nights (Sun–Fri) including a welcome aperitif, five 5-course indulgence menus and daily free green fees (9 holes) across five courses — even on arrival and departure days. Plus a partial massage (25 min), a Tanne golf ball, and additional green-fee benefits with the Schwarzwald Plus Card — from May to November, from €815 per person.