Created by Robert Trent Jones and his associate Cabell Robinson, El Bosque is a prestigious but dated residential development a short drive outside of Valencia. The layout sits at the base of a big hill with views out to the region's rolling meadows, the terrain on course dipping severely through the centre of the property. The routing here is pretty basic, holes mostly run left to right and the shaping was done to ease the severity of the natural ground slopes. Several greens are built on shelves cut into the hills, the 9th working particularly well as does the par three 13th played over a pond and to a target set in a saddle between two mounds.

Unfortunately the bunkering is tired, the edging ragged and the depth of the traps too shallow to create genuine hazards and doubts for better players. Some of the hazards are also no longer in play, or at least less relevant for longer hitters than first planned. There are a couple of decent strategic holes, like the 2nd, but the overwhelming sense here is of a course that, while of only moderate quality, is in desperate need of sensible rejuvenation.