SAFETY FIRST

Salvador Gallardo is the golf director of the Santana Golf Club and he recently contributed an article to the Andalucia Golf magazine under the heading “Russian Roulette”. In the article, he brought to public attention the spineless habit of many golf clubs of treating any Tom, Dick or Harry who promised to introduce a few [...]

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LEISURE BREAKS – A NEW BEGINNING…

After 12 successful years of being at the forefront of golf reservations and golfing holidays on the coast, Leisure Breaks is in the process of making some changes in order to further improve the service to clients for the next 12 years. Henceforth the company will be known as Golf Leisure Breaks sl but in [...]

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WINTER DRAWS ON…

It seems odd to be talking about winter, while sweltering in 30º temperatures, but from the Costa del Golf point of view, winter starts on October 1st. This is when those courses who haven’t already done so, introduce their high season green fees. Fortunately, in most cases, there has been little or no increase over [...]

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TEAM NEWS

For those visiting from another planet, the team news is about the Ryder Cup. The rest of us, even if we’re not golfers, will be aware of the oncoming battle between gentlemen golfers from North America and Europe, to be played later this month at the K Club in Ireland. I am able to use [...]

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SUMMER EXTENSION

In the “old days”, that is, until the early nineties, there were two golf seasons on what then was simply the Costa del Sol – high & low. The high season comprised the 6 winter months, October till March and the low summer season from April till September. The announcemnt in 1995 that Valderrama would [...]

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