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Will you be Top Banana Calling all ?Top Bananas? on the Costa del Sol. Golf Leisure Breaks is promoting a trip for groups of golfing friends on the Costa del Sol to travel up the coast to Almeria and compete in the ?Top Banana? Society Tournament on Friday 21st June. It includes a two night hotel stay with a BBQ [...]
Keeping his eye on balls of all sizes Teeing it up immediately after our weekly Stableford competition at the Parador last Tuesday was Malaga CF manager Manuel Pellegrini, (pictured here with the golf course director) taking a break from training after his side?s weekend win against Getafe. Big hitting Pellegrini was originally going to be joined by ?The Beast, striker Julio Baptista, but [...]
Montecastillo improvements Ever since Golf Leisure Breaks started promoting exclusive short golfing trips to Montecastillo two years ago, nearly two thousand ?Sur in English? readers have taken advantage of our super deal to stay and play unlimited golf on this Jack Nicklaus Signature course. In line with being a five star hotel, the owners have recently introduced [...]
McDowell triumphs at World Match Play As expected, the final of the 48th staging of the Volvo World Match Play Championship at the extremely beautiful Thracian Cliffs produced a master-class of short game skills from Graeme McDowell and Thongchai Jaidee. As early as the first hole with Jaidee bunkered off the tee, a delightful up-and-down from off the green rescued a [...]
Classy Calmels closes out Challenge Francois Calmels put on one of the classiest performances of the Challenge Tour season with a brilliant final round five under par 67 to close out an emphatic seven stroke victory at the Challenge de Madrid. The Frenchman, one clear at the beginning of the final round, produced a clinical, comprehensive final round performance to [...]
Anchormen Since the proposal by the USGA and R&A to introduce a rule forbidding golfers from anchoring long putters on their body during the putting stroke, much discussion has been taking place on both sides of the pond. The proposed Rule 14-1b, which follows an extensive review by The R&A and the USGA, would prohibit strokes [...]