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`Life is full of great surprises,´´ boasts the golf course’s website, almost Forest Gump-like, as one makes the winding journey up to Benahavis wondering what will be in store at El Higueral Golf/Club de Golf Benahavis. Coming up to the junction where you normally turn left to go to Monte Mayor and Marbella Club Resort [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Monte Mayor Club Resort
As part of this job an opportunity arises now and then to play on some golf courses around the world. This was the case on an inspection visit to the golf courses on the Costa Blanca during the run-up to the International Golf Travel Market in Valencia. In many respects the Costa Blanca is the [...]
Tags: Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Golf Travel Market, Valencia
It will not have escaped many golfers’ attentions that there has been an influx of wild boar incursions onto golf courses from Malaga to Marbella. Now, quite aside from the pedantic viewpoint of the R&A as to whether a wild boar is a burrowing animal or not and, in accordance with Rule 25-I, that relief [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Golf Course managers, La Cala
Leading European Tour golfer, Simon Dyson, paid a visit to the Costa del Sol last week to practise and hone his game before returning to the UK in preparation for his title defence of the Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews. Simon has become a regular visitor to southern Spain; proof of which is his [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, European Tour
Often much maligned by environmentalists – and ill-informed do-gooders alike – golf courses for some are like the proverbial red rag to a bull: an object to be criticised vehemently without respite. No mention that golf courses provide a much-needed source of employment in the local sector; nor that acres of previous arid scrubland is [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Golf Circuit
The European Ladies Tour visits the Costa del Sol next week with an impressive line-up at Flamingos Golf from Thursday 16th – Sunday 19th. Official practice days are on Monday and Tuesday followed by a Pro-Am on Wednesday. Total prize money is in the region of 350,000€ which has attracted a strong international field from [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol
I first met Cabell in 1987, when Julie and I opened an office rental business in Fuengirola. Cabell was our first tenant, when he resigned as Robert Trent Jones’s European director to branch out on his own. Having already been heavily involved in many of the Trent Jones designed courses on the Costa del Sol, [...]
Tags: Cabell Robinson, Costa del Sol
IT will not have gone unnoticed that Spain was in the eye of the hurricane during the recent volcanic crisis. From a golfing perspective, fortunately life is appearing to be returning to normal again as golf courses, hoteliers, tour operators and clients alike breathe a sigh of relief. Whilst empathizing with the very difficult lot [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Spain, Volcanic crisis
Despite the unrelenting deluge of rain over the past few months – the Costa del Sol’s wettest winter since records began the Parador’s Royal Málaga Golf Club produced a golf course in excellent condition for the Open de Andalucia last weekend. Those of us who had played the course just a few weeks ago could [...]
Tags: Costa del Golf, Costa del Sol, Parador Golf
This winter has seen the heaviest rainfall on the Costa del Sol since records began – nearly all of it concentrated on the past two months. The first week of rain was welcomed by everyone (with the obvious exception of disappointed golfers), as near-empty reservoirs began to fill, and parched golf courses enjoyed a long-awaited [...]
Tags: Costa del Golf, Costa del Sol, greenkeeper
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