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What do you look for when choosing a golf society to join? Probably you just want a regular weekly game with a competitive edge, on a decent golf course in good company and with affordable green fees. Most pub societies can offer just this, but why limit yourself when you could enjoy so many more benefits? The [...]
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In April 1995, Golf Leisure Breaks organised its first stableford competition. The company was feeling its way into the unexplored territory of golf tourism and was the first locally based golf tour operator. The initial aim was to provide visiting golfers with the opportunity to meet and compete with each other in a friendly environment, [...]
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Not everyone can devote the time needed to play 18 holes of golf. There are plenty of par 3 courses around, but a realistic alternative is the superb La Noria course at La Cala de Mijas. La Noria features 4 par threes, 4 par fours and a par five. The course is imma-culately maintained and the greens [...]
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From Thursday 26th. March, Cabopino will be the regular Thursday venue for a GLB Golf Society’s stableford competition, joining other popular courses, such as Sta. Maria (Mondays), La Noria (Tuesdays), Parador (Wednesdays), and Calanova (Fridays). This ensures that Golf Leisure Breaks remains unique among golf societies by offering an unrivalled choice of venues and dates. For [...]
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Berwick-on-Tweed is a small town on the England-Scotland border, acknowledged as the poorest town in England, with annual wages nearly half of the national average. Yet the town is now booming, with business up by 30%, reports the Sunday Express.* The reason? The demise of such retail giants as Woolworths and Shoe Zone has left the [...]
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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 [...]
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…the tough get going. Many satellite industries rely on winter golf tourism for their existence. Restaurants are a typical example, so GLB are creating a programme designed to introduce visiting golfers to twenty of the finest restaurants in Fuengirola. The programme will be symbiotic, in that visitors to the selected restaurants will be made aware [...]
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Instead of waiting to see which courses decide to drop their greenfee rates for the remainder of the winter high season, Golf Leisure Breaks are now offering some exceptional bargains of their own. As the effects of the economic recession are felt world-wide, very few can escape the consequences of unemployment and redundancy and the knock-on effects-even golfers. Of [...]
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At this time of year, it is customary to review the past year’s local golf activities, but as regular readers will have noticed, the recession has already been felt. Having adopted an optimistic approach to the fortunes of the Costa del Golf during the past two years, I have to come clean and admit that [...]
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Feel-good factors might be thin on the ground as the world economic recession bites, but it seems clear that millions of Europeans are determined to enjoy themselves for the next week or two, whatever repercussions may be lying in wait in 2009. High street spending on Christmas presents continues to defy the gravity of the [...]
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