Written by TG Courses editor on Thursday 22 April 2010
Today’s Golfer chose the Abama Golf Resort and Spa in Tenerife as the destination for its most recent instructional photo shoot and the resort did not disappoint! Uniquely situated on the smooth slopes of the Pico del Teide volcano, Abama’s golf course features lakes, waterfalls and lush landscaping combined with magnificent views of the Atlantic Ocean. The course is made up of a...
Written by TG Courses editor on Friday 23 April 2010
Visitors to one of the top tourist attractions in South Wales will find a greatly improved golf course thanks to a £102,644 grant from the Ryder Cup Wales Legacy Fund. The nine-hole course is set amongst the stunning scenery of the Gnoll Country Park, just outside Neath, which has been shortlisted as one of the best picnic spots in Wales. Following these...
Written by 2-FORE!-1 GOLF on Saturday 1 May 2010
The new golf season is now well and truly underway and after the harsh winter courses all over the country should be fast-approaching tip-top playing condition. And courses within the highly popular 2-FORE!-1 scheme (that’s over 1,000 nationwide) are set to attract plenty of golfers in possession of 2-FORE!-1 vouchers which secures half-price green fee rates. Don’t know where to use up that voucher...
Written by 2-FORE!-1 GOLF on Tuesday 4 May 2010
Montrose Golf Links is a true star of 2-FORE!-1 and has started a memorable year – it celebrates its bicentenary in 2010 – by clinching the first 2-FORE!-1 Course of the Month award (for April). The original club was founded 200 years ago and as a result is the ninth oldest golf club on Planet Golf. A number of events will take...
Written by TG Courses editor on Wednesday 5 May 2010
PGA Catalunya Resort near Barcelona has been ranked among the World’s Top 100 courses in a newly published list. The acclaimed 36-hole resort’s Stadium Course, which hosted the 2009 Spanish Open, was ranked 88th in the world by Golf World magazine, making it one of only two golf courses in Spain to make the exclusive list, published in the...
Written by TG Courses editor on Thursday 13 May 2010
Ireland’s leading five-star golf resort, The K Club, is offering golfers the opportunity to spend the day with the pros enjoying the new Professional Golf Clinic day package. It’s the perfect chance to follow in the footsteps of Darren Clarke, Paul McGinley, Phil Mickleson and Rory McIlroy who have all played the hallowed fairways of the world-famous Palmer Ryder Cup course. The...
Written by TG Courses editor on Tuesday 18 May 2010
It is going to be a busy run-up to this year’s Open Championship with not one, but two key anniversaries taking place at the Home of Golf. Together with the celebrations honouring the Open’s 150th anniversary, St Andrews will also mark a milestone for Golf Tourism Scotland (GTS), as the trade body celebrates half a decade of campaigning for Scotland’s...
Written by TG Courses editor on Wednesday 19 May 2010
Turkey is now a red-hot golfing destination and here’s some great news for golfers looking to head there this year. Firstly, low cost airline, Monarch (www.monarch.co.uk), has introduced two flights per week to Antalya direct from Manchester airport. Fares, including taxes, start from just £52.99 one way (£90.99 return). So bag a cheap flight and then enjoy further savings at LykiaWorld...
Written by 2-FORE!-1 GOLF on Tuesday 18 May 2010
Kent, the Garden of England, boasts plenty of cracking golf 2-FORE!-1 courses and that particularly applies to the area around the wonderful cathedral city of Canterbury. So if you don’t know where to use that coveted 2-FORE!-1 voucher entitling you and your best golfing partner to half-price green fees, then check this handful of stunners out…as soon as possible! *Canterbury GC –...
Written by TG Courses editor on Wednesday 19 May 2010
The manager of four top golf courses has been honoured with a prestigious sports award. Andy Carnall, golf manager at Sheffield International Venues (SIV), received the Derbyshire Golf Professional of the Year award at the Derbyshire Professional Golf Association (PGA) Dinner. The award, voted for by other professional golfers throughout the country, recognises an individual’s contribution to the local golfing industry.
Written by TG Courses editor on Thursday 20 May 2010
Three generations of the Booth family who play at Pyle and Kenfig, South Wales, have all had a hole-in-one at the fourth hole. First to register an ace was Don whose son Ian then emulated da’s feat. The Booth family hat-trick was then completed by Ian’s son Rhodri. These are great golfing times for Rhodri whose steady golf improvement saw him record his first...
Written by TG Courses editor on Sunday 23 May 2010
Troon Golf, the world’s largest luxury-brand golf management, development and marketing company, has announced the grand opening of the first signature golf course in Greece. The Dunes Course in Navarino Dunes, the first integrated resort at Costa Navarino (www.costanavarino.com) stretching over 130 hectares of breathtaking beachfront landscape, has been designed by two-time Masters Champion and Ryder Cup winning captain Bernhard...
Written by TG Courses editor on Wednesday 26 May 2010
Eighteen-time major winner Jack Nicklaus, popped in to Manchester’s unfashionable Heaton Park Golf Centre yesterday to provide some valuable golf coaching to youngsters from The First Tee of Manchester Over 20 lucky youngsters from The First Tee of Manchester travelled to Heaton Park to meet the legendary Golden Bear where they received first-hand coaching from the Royal Bank of Scotland ambassador. Nicklaus,...
Written by TG Courses editor on Sunday 30 May 2010
Looking for a great value-for-money golfing break in sunny Spain? Then check this pair of beauties out and you’ll have a real ball… *Deal 1 (for 2 people) – Four nights accommodation in one bedroom apartment at Alanda Club Marbella, buffet breakfast, one dinner, two rounds of golf (Marbella Golf & Santa Clara) and full use of all facilities in clubhouse.
Written by TG Courses editor on Saturday 5 June 2010
Looking for a great value-for-money golf break in sunny Spain? Then here’s some cracking deals that will almost certainly do the trick. You’ll be based at the four star Hotel Iberostar Royal Andalus hotel with the golfing action centred around the superb Club de Golf Novo Sancti Petri which dramatically overlooks the Atlantic coast. So check these out then: Till the end of...
Written by TG Courses editor on Tuesday 8 June 2010
Thailand is a fantastic golfing destination with some truly amazing courses…and guaranteed weather! And it’s a good idea in terms of getting value-for-money to take your holiday before October 31st, when courses and hotels are still at low season discounted rates. The climate through July to October is still generally pretty good, and the golf courses are in great condition after the...
Written by TG Courses editor on Thursday 10 June 2010
The partnership with The European Tour will result in top-flight professional golf being staged in Turkey on a new José Maria Olazábal-designed course. Belek, 25 kilometres east of Antalya International Airport, is already a golf tourism hotspot and was voted European Golf Destination of the Year by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators in 2008. Now, joining London Golf...
Written by TG Courses Editor on Friday 18 June 2010
Travelling golfers will be rooting for England to go all the way in South Africa this summer because the longer the Three Lions stay in the World Cup the more opportunity there is to win vouchers from www.YourGolfTravel.com. Europe’s largest online golf travel retailer is giving £175 worth of vouchers to anyone booking with them while England remain in the World...
Written by TG Courses editor on Tuesday 22 June 2010
Award-winning golf operator Crown Golf has launched a new golf coaching programme, intended to revolutionise the way beginners take golf lessons at its network of Academies across the south of England. And the new scheme – which starts with a seven day free trial – marks the group’s largest-ever initiative to boost the number of golfers in the UK, with the...
Written by TG Courses editor on Monday 28 June 2010
Anything really interesting or extraordinary going on at your golf club? Then let us know and as a result your course could well make its way into the newlook August issue of Today’s Golfer magazine. We’re looking for all the top news and wackiest happenings at your golf club – whether it be somebody bagging two holes-in-one in a single round,...