Mediterranean Golf Exhibition in Malaga

The Aymerich Golf Management Stand

Baviera Golf

Jersa Golf Construction and Management.

Wilson Golf

Mediterranean Golf made its debut with its first golf show at the "Palacio de Ferias y Congresos" ( Malagas new exhibition centre ) .

The doors are open to the public from the 16th to the 19th April 2008 and coincides with

the 5th International Golf and Environment Forum organized by PROMOTOUR (Association of Residential, Sport and Health Tourism of Andalusia).

The Golf Show is mainly aimed at professionals with Mediterranean Golf promising to become a reference within the golfing industry around the entire Mediterranean area. Their objective is to provide the industry with a federative commercial platform for the golf sector in Europe and the Mediterranean.

I visited the exhibition on a personal level with a few friends and enjoyed testing a wide variety of clubs at the Wilson stand, along with trying out a Golf simulator open to all members of the public and for a bit of fun spent quite a few minutes on the WII stand playing what else but Golf !!.

Although I understand that the show was more focused on the golfing business as a whole I was slightly disappointed that there where not more well known companies represented at the show such as Callaway, Taylormade etc and indeed more local and national business,s offering products and services to the golfing industry.

Gary

New agreement for Watering Costa Golf Courses

Some 35 courses located on the western Costa del Sol can now use partially recycled water

for course watering.

After a large investment of around 6 Million Euros and an agreement reached by Acuamed and Acosol it consists of partially treating sewage to make it fit enough for golf course use.

Some 66.000 cubic meters of water will be made available every day for watering courses and is a positive step in the right direction to make courses as Eco friendly as possible in the future.

Gary

Golf on the Costa del Sol

Santa Clara Golf

The Santa Clara golf course is a beautiful Federation competition standard course located

in the town of Otura at the foothills of the stunning Sierra Nevada mountain range, some 5 minutes drive from the centre of Granada.

The course was designed by the well known golfing architect Enrique Canales Busquets and created with the up most respect for the beautiful natural environment and

provides a fantastic and unique meeting place for golf enthusiasts.

This is Par 72 of 6.598 meters, it has long wide open fairways and huge lush fast moving greens with few areas that are out of bounds although there are a large variety of obstacles which make this a challenging for all players of all handicaps .

The third hole is a long par 5 at 550 meters, as well as its seventh, thirteenth and fourteenth, with 463, 544 and 521 respectively, which require golfers to make long and accurate shots.

The course maintenance at Santa Clara is second to none and one of the best I have played in Andalucia. All in an unforgettable experience I hope to repeat in the near future.

Gary

Golf on the Costa del Sol