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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 [...]
Tags: Golf Leisure Breaks, La Quinta Golf, Los Naranjos Golf, sharing buggy
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 [...]
Tags: Golf activities, golf clubs, Golf Leisure Breaks, New Year, readers, Sur in English
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 [...]
Tags: Christmas Golf, Costa del Golf, Golf Leisure Breaks
This time last year, a visiting team from Ilford, England, won the inaugural match between the I.T.A.G.S. and the Golf Leisure Breaks Golf Society, who fielded a team to represent the Costa del Golf. Last year’s match was played on Mijas International’s Los Lagos course in atrocious weather conditions, and resulted in a narrow win [...]
Tags: Calanova Golf Club, Golf Leisure Breaks, Golf Society, ITAGS, Mijas International's Los Lagos Course
My last visit to Alhaurín Golf Club was some 5 years ago and much has changed since then under the astute management of golf director Rafael Cruz-Conde. When I arrived on Sunday, the place was buzzing, following an inter-club match and it was clear that Ahaurín is now a thriving members’ club. Even more noticeable was [...]
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By the time next week’s issue is on the news stands, thirty lucky residents will be en route to Antequera for a weekend’s golf with Golf Leisure Breaks to enjoy a welcome change from the hurly burly of life on the Costa del Sol. The whole concept of an occasional weekend away has become so popular [...]
Tags: Antequera Golf, Costa del Sol, Golf Leisure Breaks, Granada, Jerez
Congratulations to Manolo Fernandez, who far from being new, has been on the Costa del Golf scene for more than twenty years. Manolo is a golf man through and through, with a vast knowledge of golfers and their needs, including those who visit these shores and the increasing number of resident golfers. He also happens to be [...]
Tags: Aymerich Golf Management, Calanova Golf, Costa del Golf, Costa del Sol, Golf Leisure Breaks, Manolo Fernandez
A recent article on this page offered a way for those wishing to take up golf to break the vicious circle (no handicap, no golf: no golf, no handicap). The regular Thursday meetings which began seven years ago, offered the opportunity for newcomers to arrive at the Positive Golf Academy in Elviria for a group [...]
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