The third nine at Palmares presents the golf experience every golfer wants to experience: a seaside landscape with dunes exposed to the elements. The four seaside holes are between the beach and the railway line. The course opens by descending from a parkland setting. The second hole then whisks golfers into the true links part of the course. This dunes character is continued through the remainder of the Praia Golf Course with the closing hole, a strong uphill par 5, rising out of the dunes through a deep valley to an impressive bowl just below the clubhouse.