May 15 0

Golf in Fuerteventura

Golf Fuerteventura from Golf Holidays.com
Golf in Fuerteventura

If you’re looking for the famous Canary Islands climate and want to steer clear of the crowds, you must consider Fuerteventura – the third largest of the seven Canary Islands, it has arguably the most dramatic landscapes and huge expanses of rugged and majestic countryside and unspoilt coastline.
Golf in Fuerteventura is ten years old in 2012 and the courses love the constant sunshine, low rainfall and warm winds. And with the golf courses, come new and smart hotels.  All told there are five courses – Fuerteventura, Las Salinas, Las Playitas are good 18 hole challenges and there are two nine-holers for less accomplished golfers.

With the equatorial climate, Fuerteventura is good for golf all year round but is ideal for British golfers from October through to April when we escape the British winter and enjoy good fairways and greens and short-sleeves just four hours from London.
Compared to Tenerife and Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura offers good enjoyable holiday golf, great value-for-money, scenery and the charm of the island can also be much admired.
A golf holiday in Fuerteventura is thus ideal for couples and small groups for whom golf is part of an all-encompassing holiday and who look for sunshine golf break away from the crowds.

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Apr 19 0

Champagne Golf

I’ve had a good response to my piece on adding a glass or two of wine tourism to a golf visit to the Bordeaux area – so here’s a suggestion for a real touch of luxury for a golf trip at a surprisingly acceptable price.

 

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Apr 13 0

Golf and wine

I suppose there are three sorts of golf holidays . . . Golf your brains out with 36 holes a day (and make it medal play for a bit more torture); saunter through an attractive part of the world with golf almost as an incidental; or – my favourite – 18 holes in the morning, a light lunch, an afternoon enjoying local delights, then dinner to set you up for tomorrow and to dream of the “pine needles kind of shot” Bubba Watson played to win the Masters.

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Mar 12 0

GOLF FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What makes a day’s golf? Obviously, the golf – the way you play and the quality of the course!

But what about the other factors, like the clubhouse food and drink? I’ve had some days out spoilt by indifferent and/or over-priced meals, beer and wine. It really is a disgrace that after paying good money to play golf and then being prepared to pay equally good money for the after-golf meal, you’re seriously disappointed. Continue reading

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Mar 12 0

GOLF IN THE GAMES

Only four years to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the return of golf to the Games for the first time since 1904. . . But the team to design and build the Olympic course was named only in March this year. Continue reading

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Mar 7 0

PROVENCE PLEASURES

Just about the only delight missing from super-chef Raymond Blanc’s mouth-watering TV programme on Provence was the abundance of great golf courses in this blissful part of France.

Provence’s growing reputation for golf has just moved up another notch with Terre Blanche becoming the seventh French course to link with the European Tour in either hosting a tournament or, as in this case, inaugurating a Performance Institute. Continue reading

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Mar 2 0

UNFARE DEAL

The cost for the flying golfer soars like a McIlroy drive . . .

Here’s a sample of charges for a bag of golf clubs for flights within Europe: £32 per return journey by Thomas Cook, £40  by Monarch, £48 by Aer Lingus, £50 by easyJet and Jet2, £60  by BA, Flybe, BMI and Thomson, and £100 (yes!) by Ryanair. Continue reading

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Mar 2 0

FRENCH PRIDE

Listen to the chat in the bar at a French golf club these days and what do you hear (apart from debate about Nicolas Sarkozy’s chances of re-election as President)? The golfers of France are talking about the national pride in staging the 2018 Ryder Cup at Golf National near Versailles to the south-west of Paris. And they’re also talking about the national puzzle of whether any French players will make the Europe team in September this year at Medinah, Illinois.

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