This golf courese is a design by Antonio Garrido, a spanish golfer. The course began operations in 1969. Most notable in the course is the natural environment, with the mountains as the protagonist and the presence of a creek and four lakes.

Santa Maria Golf is situated in a unique place in the Costa del Sol, next to the Hotel Don Carlos, and 30 minutes from Malaga and 5 minutes of Marbella. His most important hole is number 7, with a green flanked by bunkers, and 11 with a lake and a waterfall along the green zone.