Sotogrande is home to five championship golf courses within the vicinity. Valderrama is a must play course for fans of the game, one of the best-known golf clubs in the world and host of the 1997 Ryder Cup. Also extremely popular is Real Club de Sotogrande, considered one of the masterpieces of prolific golf course designer Robert Trent Jones and cited as one of his 5 favourites from over 500 courses he designed worldwide.