Desert Springs Golf Club today announces the fourth annual election for members to choose a Vice-captain and two members each for the Club’s Handicap and Competition Committees to take office for the period 1st April 2008 through to 31st March 2009. Since April, 2005, Club Officers have been elected annually from and by the Members…read more
Members of Desert Springs have been invited to enter a team in the XI Dia Del Interclub Tournament to be held at La Cala Golf Resort on Sunday 1st June 2008. Teams of 8 players will compete in an individual stableford tournament, with the 4 best scores counting towards the team total. The event is…read more
If the game of golf wasn’t difficult enough, it is not surprising that the majority of golfers find the rules of golf difficult to get to know and even more difficult to understand! There are 34 rules, over 100 sections and over 200 explanatory decisions, probably giving golf the most complicated rules of any sport.…read more
Desert Springs Golf Professional Alfonso Castiñeira became the 2008 Champion of the ‘National Peugeot Loewe Tour’ Qualifying School last week in El Rompido, Huelva. Alfonso shot rounds of 72+78+73+67 (290), to beat Juan Andrés Vizcaya and Gorka Guillén by 2 strokes. Alfonso’s fourth round 67 (-5) was the best 18 hole score of the tournament…read more
Desert Springs Golf Professional Alfonso Castiñeira became the 2008 Champion of the ‘National Peugeot Loewe Tour’ Qualifying School last week in El Rompido, Huelva. Alfonso shot rounds of 72+78+73+67 (290), to beat Juan Andrés Vizcaya and Gorka Guillén by 2 strokes. Alfonso’s fourth round 67 (-5) was the best 18 hole score of the tournament…read more
Last week, in the municipality of Vera in Almeria, Spain, the Andalucían government demolished the home of Mr. & Mrs. Prior, a retired British couple from Berkshire. Confusion reigns but the planning and legal situation was simple enough and not much different from what one would expect in the UK. The demolished dwelling was built…read more
The events that took place in Almeria last week are most unfortunate. The demolished property and its licence from the Vera Town Hall were not based upon an approved project of works (Project of Urbanization) for an approved detail plan (Plan Parcial) of an approved developable sector of a Local Plan (Normas Subsidiaras) approved by…read more
2008 ‘Golf 4 All Pro-Am’ Winning Team The II ‘GOLF 4 ALL PRO-AM’ was held on the Indiana course this week. An international field of 42 amateur players, from 10 countries competed alongside 14 of the top women professionals from the Ladies European Tour, including Desert Springs Touring Professionals and Solheim Cup players Trish…read more
From January 1st 2008 new rules come into force for all golfers regarding “driving clubs” – which means drivers in normal parlance. These rules have already been operative since January 2005 for UK County and National events, and in the USA for all competitive golf. These are rules of the R&A, approved by the RFEG, and…read more
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT ‘NEWS LETTER’ JANUARY 2008 Dear Member / Property Owner, Following on from the ‘The Golf Course Superintendents News Letter’ sent to you in November which was designed to keep you up to date with all of the important maintenance procedures which were scheduled to take place on The Indiana course in December,…read more
