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This is a question I have been asking our many clients for the past 7 or 8 years. Apart from a few jokers who would like to play for nothing, the majority answered fairly, with logical explanations for their opinions. Most took into account the difference between what they pay as members of golf clubs [...]
Tags: Golf Club, resort golf
Now is the time when our golf clubs traditionally prepare their greens to withstand the extra wear & tear expected during what is hoped to be a busy winter. The long hot summer prevented this work from being carried out earlier – in fact, the hottest summer for many a year has brought its own [...]
Tags: Golf Club, Masters, Parador Golf, Royal Malaga
Three clubs host Golf Leisure Breaks’ regular stableford competitions; Sta. Maria (Mondays), El Chaparral (Wednesdays) and Calanova (Fridays). All three, and no doubt many other of our local clubs, have gone to great lengths to present their courses in immacculate condition. So imagine how disappointing it must be to them, and to responsible golfers, to [...]
Tags: Calanova Golf, el chaparral golf, Golf Club, Golf Competitions, Golf Leisure Breaks, Golf Open, Santa Maria Golf, Sergio Garcia, Spain
Well, it’s not a club, exactly. It’s a golf society. The GLB Golf Society, to be precise. Many of our readers spend a great deal of their time here on the Costa del Sol, but not enough to merit joining a golf club and paying an annual sub as well as a green fee. Membership [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Golf Club, Golf Leisure Breaks, Golf Society, Sur in English
If you’re reading this page, it’s likely that you already play, but you probably know someone who would like to be introduced to this wonderful sport. But why golf, rather than one of the many other sports available? There are many reasons for choosing golf, but here are just a few.
In the first place, golf [...]
Tags: Golf Beginners, Golf Club, Golf in Spain
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 [...]
Tags: Andalucia, Golf Club, Golf Leisure Breaks, Internet
The Ilford Thursday Afternoon Golf Society, celebrating it’s 50th anniversary this year, must be one of the oldest golf societies in Britain. Based at the 100-year-old Ilford Golf Club, the ITAGS have been visiting the Costa del Sol each year for the past 10 years. Their secretary Maurice Eccles, is a frequent visitor, with a [...]
Tags: Golf Club, Golf Society, ITAGS
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