Argentina golf tours are usually built around Buenos Aires, with Patagonia added when its courses are open and the rest of the trip given to sightseeing, food and wine. Many itineraries begin in Buenos Aires, which has one of the highest concentrations of private golf clubs in South America, before extending to Bariloche or further south depending on the season and preferred pacing. At the best of them a visitor gets on by arrangement, not by booking a tee time direct. Because Argentina is geographically large, flight timing and regional weather shape how a golf itinerary is routed.
Course styles vary considerably across the country: traditional parkland layouts near the capital, mountain and lakeside courses in the south. Some travelers build their Argentina golf tour around competitive play and multiple rounds, while others combine golf with wine touring, estancia stays, or lighter sightseeing as part of a broader Argentina tour. Spring and fall are often the most comfortable seasons for itineraries that combine Buenos Aires with Patagonia.
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The golf itinerary that uses both banks of the river: four Buenos Aires courses and a tango show, a golf and spa resort at Colonia del Sacramento, then two 18-hole courses at Punta del Este. Iguazú is on the route for the falls, and the trip ends on Uruguay's beaches.
Twenty-two days and three golf cities: Buenos Aires with a tango dinner, then Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and the beach at Praia do Forte. Most of it is Brazil, so it suits a golfer who wants Rio as much as Buenos Aires.
No rounds are built in, but this four-day extension takes the Seven Lakes Road between Bariloche and San Martín de los Andes, which puts Llao Llao and Chapelco on the route. It runs September to mid-May, and Llao Llao's season is October to April.
No rounds are built in. It opens with three nights in Buenos Aires, where most of the ranked courses are, and finishes in Ushuaia, home of the southernmost course of all.
No rounds are built in. This five-day extension follows Córdoba's Jesuit estancias to Alta Gracia, where Potrerillo de Larreta is one of the country's top-ranked courses.
Most of Argentina’s best golf is not in Patagonia. It is in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Seven of the ten courses at the top of the Argentine rankings are in Buenos Aires province, and six of those are around the capital. The Jockey Club in San Isidro leads the list with its Red course. Olivos has 27 holes, and so does the Buenos Aires Golf Club, a Robert von Hagge design from 1994. Here is the trap: San Andrés, further down the same list, was the club originally named the Buenos Aires Golf Club. Then the Nicklaus courses. Pilará, about 40 km northwest of the city, was the first Jack Nicklaus signature design in Argentina, and Nordelta is a Nicklaus course that opened in 2007.
It is parkland golf, flat and tree-lined, and it plays all year because the winters are mild. The evenings belong to Buenos Aires itself. The last of the seven is the odd one out: Playa Grande at Mar del Plata, on the Atlantic coast, known as the golf cathedral.
Everyone asks which course. Wrong question. The better one is which club will have you. The clubs are private and run for their members, and an international visitor gets on through an operator the club has a formal relationship with. It is not a matter of emailing the club and turning up with your bag. Nope. The Jockey Club, first in the ranking, keeps no public visitor tee times at all, and receives guests on set weekdays by arrangement. Olivos is described as easier to get onto, but you still book ahead.
That turns the planning upside down. The tee times are requested first, before the flights are fixed, and the rest of the week is built around the days the clubs give you. Expect those days to be the club’s choice rather than yours. This is the honest reason to plan golf here through a specialist: the best clubs do not take a booking from a stranger. Send your dates and the clubs you have read about through our trip planner, and we will tell you which of them take visitors, and when.
Patagonia is a summer game. Three courses are worth knowing by name: Llao Llao at Bariloche, open October to April; Chapelco near San Martín de los Andes, the first course in South America by the Jack Nicklaus II design group; and the nine holes of Ushuaia Golf Club at the bottom of the continent. Bariloche and San Martín share the Seven Lakes Road, and Ushuaia is a flight of its own. Southern golf is a trip in itself, with its own page: Patagonia golf tours.
The easier addition is across the river. Colonia del Sacramento is a ferry ride over the Río de la Plata from Buenos Aires, and Punta del Este lies further along the Uruguayan coast. The three-country golf tour includes both, and Uruguay golf tours is the page for that side of the water.
The clubs sit in the suburbs north and northwest of the city, the Jockey Club at San Isidro, Olivos, and Pilará out toward Pilar among them, so every golf day starts with a drive out from your hotel. Three or four nights covers two or three rounds and the city too.
Two of the ten ranked courses are in Córdoba province: Potrerillo de Larreta at Alta Gracia, fifth on the list, and Pueblo Estancia La Paz, tenth. Alta Gracia also has one of the Jesuit estancias that make up Córdoba's UNESCO World Heritage site, so a round and a morning of colonial history fit into the same day. It is a short flight from Buenos Aires.
Llao Llao's 18 holes belong to the resort of the same name, on the lake outside town with forested Andes behind. The season is October to April. Bariloche is also where a non-golfer has the most to do: boats on Nahuel Huapi, the Circuito Chico, the Seven Lakes Road north. Give it two nights at least, one day for the round and one for the lakes.
Chapelco is ranked third in Argentina, the highest-ranked course outside Buenos Aires province, so give it a day of its own, not a round squeezed into a driving day. San Martín de los Andes is a small lake town, quieter than Bariloche, and the place to sleep the night before.
Ushuaia Golf Club is nine holes about 6 km out of town along the Pipo River, and it calls itself the southernmost golf course in the world. Nobody flies to Tierra del Fuego for nine holes. You play them because you are already there for the national park, the Beagle Channel and the End-of-the-World Train, and because you can say you did.
Uruguay's beach resort sits on a peninsula with around 40 km of beaches, and the three-country golf tour plays two 18-hole courses there, set between the Atlantic, native trees and a lagoon. It is the seaside change after a week of parkland around Buenos Aires.
Beyond Argentina, the golf pages next door split the work: South America golf tours holds the multi-country itineraries, Patagonia golf tours the southern courses in detail, and Uruguay golf tours the other side of the river. For the days without clubs, Buenos Aires and Bariloche and the Lake District each have their own page, and the Argentina page covers the rest of the country, golf or no golf.
Because a golf trip to Argentina is a chain, and the clubs hold the first link. Tee times at the private clubs go through operators the clubs already work with, so that is where we start, and when a club offers a different day, we move the rest of the trip rather than lose the round. Then the pacing. A golf day is followed by a day for the city, a lake or an estancia, and the partner who does not play gets days of their own. Then the calendar: Buenos Aires in any month, Patagonia only in its summer. We have been planning Argentina for more than twenty years. We know which link breaks first. Usually the tee times.
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Yes, but not by booking direct. Argentina's top courses are private members' clubs, and a visitor plays as a guest, arranged through an operator the club already works with. The club sets the day, usually one of its visitor weekdays, and the trip fits around it. What helps most is a short list: your dates, how many of you are playing, and the two or three clubs you want most.
October to April, if the trip includes Patagonia, because golf there is a summer game and that is Llao Llao's season. Seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere: October is spring and January is high summer. Buenos Aires plays all year, since its winters are mild, so a golf trip that stays around the capital can go in June or July. For both in one trip, the shoulder months, October and November or March and April, also keep the capital out of its summer heat.
Mostly around Buenos Aires. Seven of the country's ten top-ranked courses are in Buenos Aires province: the Jockey Club, Olivos, the Buenos Aires Golf Club, San Andrés, Nordelta and Pilará around the capital, and Playa Grande at Mar del Plata. The other three are Chapelco at San Martín de los Andes and, in Córdoba, Potrerillo de Larreta and Pueblo Estancia La Paz. Patagonia adds Llao Llao at Bariloche, outside the top ten but worth a round in summer.
Yes, and the trip is often better for it, as long as the non-golfer's days are planned as carefully as the rounds. In Buenos Aires that can mean a tango lesson every evening, or a night at one of the family-run estancias outside the city: mostly luxurious, with a swimming pool, and horseback riding always included. In Bariloche it is the lakes. Everyone meets again at dinner.
Yes, and the order matters. Play Buenos Aires first, cross to Colonia del Sacramento, and finish at Punta del Este, so the trip ends in Uruguay rather than doubling back. Juergen Keller, our co-founder, puts it plainly for any Argentina route: do not fly in and out of Buenos Aires. It is also the order the three-country golf tour begins in. For the courses on the far bank, see Uruguay golf tours.
Three or four, in our view, for most visiting golfers. More than that and the trip turns into a tournament, with Buenos Aires seen only from the car on the way to the clubs. Leave a day between rounds, and keep one free for an asado. It is a late lunch that goes into the evening without anyone noticing, and nobody wants a tee time after it.
Roberto De Vicenzo is the classic answer. He won the Open Championship in 1967. The modern answer is Ángel Cabrera, who won the U.S. Open in 2007 and the Masters in 2009. Neither name will get you a tee time at a private club, which still takes an arrangement made in advance, the same as it does for everyone else.
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