The other courses were with in 30 minutes if I remember correctly.
The only issues we had was that Golfbreaks hadn't emailed the transfer details for the courses away from Mar Menor so we had no clue when we were being picked up so we tried to change that round and the people in the Pro Shop...
A Group of 8 of us went to Mar Menor staying in the Residences (the apartments) last summer, we played at Mar Menor, El Valle and Saurines during our stay.
We all enjoyed the golf courses and the facilities at Mar Menor, the only draw back was the breakfast wasn't the best well not as good as...
I'll second Lundin links, not only because I got my best score there on a recent Scotland trip but it's a lovely course with friendly staff and members!
You obviously didn't see villa under lambert.
As a season ticket holder of 20 years the difference between Lambert and Sherwood is night and day. We would have been relegated by mid march if lambert had stayed - lost the fans and the players in the end.