One of the more popular golf facilities on Spain's increasingly popular Costa del Sol coast, the Mijas Golf Club has two golf courses built in the 1970s by Robert Trent Jones and revised in the early part of the 2000s by his long-time associate Cabell Robinson. This is pretty standard resort fare, however, with the golf holes looking more difficult than they really are courtesy of forgiving fairways, little rough, shallow fairway traps and soft maintenance practices. Green speeds and firmness can't be too difficult when you get so much resort play.

The golf here gets frightfully close to the housing in some places, from the back tees the line on both the 11th and 17th holes is over homes. The holes themselves are OK, but really this is just a manicured parkland with some nice Olive trees, wall-to-wall green grass, ponds and water fountains to distract the connoisseur from the fact the golf is unremarkable. An example of how disappointing the course is comes at the very first hole, shallow bunkers and an enormous area for the riskier drive spoiling any strategic merit it may have enjoyed. The idea here is very sound, traps on the left progressively eat into the fairway and one big bunker complex on the right corner make the strategy either to try fly the right side hazard or lay up short and to the left. Were the green more sharply angled or the penalty for a miss bomb greater the hole would be very good. As it stands this is much like the course itself, an ordinary attempt to add interest to a fairly tame golfing experience.