Posted August 7th, 2009 by admin
July and August are traditionally quiet months for our golf courses as temperatures soar and most golf tourists spend the summer playing on their home courses. But a significant number have already chosen to take advantage of bargain basement greenfees, many of which include a buggy. In fact, despite gloomy predictions about the effects of [...]
Tags: Costa del, Costa del Golf Page, Costa del Sol, Sur in English
Posted June 12th, 2009 by admin
According to a report in last week’s edition of the “Sur in English”, the Junta de Andalucía is to spend 6 million euros on a plan to entice senior citizens from the most recent countries to join the European Community, to visit Andalucía during the quiet winter months. How commendable. However, over the past 20 years, more [...]
Tags: Costa del Golf, Costa del Golf Page, Costa del Sol, Gibraltar, Junta de Andalucia, Malaga, Spain, Sur in English
Posted March 6th, 2009 by admin
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
Posted January 16th, 2009 by admin
Back in 1990 Julie and David Crumpler founded Leisure Breaks sl (the first locally based golf tour operator) which latterly became known as Golf Leisure Breaks sl. The ethos of the company then was to build a business based on good client service and of course this remains the case today. Good service to clients [...]
Tags: David Crumpler, Fuengirola, Leisure Breaks, Sur in English
Posted January 2nd, 2009 by admin
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
Posted June 27th, 2008 by admin
Golf in the sunshine can be a dream come true if you hale from northern Europe, but a word of warning. Although buggies offer a degree of shelter from direct sunlight, dehydration can be the enemy, so it pays to follow these simple steps:- take plenty of water with you (defintely not beer or any [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, golf, summer, Sur in English
Posted March 7th, 2008 by admin
Writing about slow play may seem like a boring subject, but slow play itself is much more boring, if you are unfortunate enough to be a victim. There is an assumption among many golfers of a certain age (and I’m one of them), that common good manners should be enough incentive to avoid selfishly ruining [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Spain, Sur in English
Posted August 3rd, 2007 by admin
Over 600 golfers are hoping that they have written their names into the Guinness World Records for the highest number of golfers in a single competition in one day.
More importantly this event raised 13,000 pounds sterling for UNICEF, which will be used to alleviate the suffering of children in Iraq and in refugee camps in [...]
Tags: AEHCOS, Andalucia, Diario Sur, Guinness Worl Records, La Cala Resort, Mijas Hippodrome, Sur in English, Turismo Andaluz, UNICEF
Posted April 27th, 2007 by admin
Recent fluctuations in weather patterns, unusal for the coast during April, have caused havoc for tourists and residents alike.
Rain, thunder and lightening have strangely alternated with warm sunny weather, while many parts of northern Europe have enjoyed semi-tropical weather more usually associated with the Costa del Sol. Consequently, visiting groups of golfers have been tearing [...]
Tags: Costa del Sol, Spain, Sur in English
Posted February 16th, 2007 by admin
Details of the competitions will appear weekly on this page and will be announced daily on radio R.E.M. fm ( 104.8 fm or 91.9fm).
Friday 23rd. February, at the magnificent Calanova course, sees the first of the new exciting stableford competitions jointly sponsored by REM radio & Golf Leisure Breaks. The format will be similar to [...]
Tags: Golf Competitions, Golf Leisure Breaks, REM, Sur in English
