As announced on 31st January, Desert Springs is holding its fourth annual election for members to choose a Vice-Captain and two members for each of the Club’s Handicap and Competitions Committees, to take office for the period 1st April 2008 through to 31st March 2009.   All members have been sent a ‘Desert Springs Golf Club…read more

El Día de Andalucía (The Day of Andalusia) is a celebration held on the 28th February each year enjoyed by the community of Andalusia in order to commemorate the referendum that gave full autonomy to Andalusia in February 1980. To celebrate this historic event, Desert Springs Resort & Golf Club will host for the first…read more

GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT ‘NEWS LETTER’ FEBRUARY 2008 Dear Member / Property Owner, Following on from the ‘The Golf Course Superintendents News Letter’ sent to you in December 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 January,…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

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

Some of the top players from the Ladies European Tour (LET) will be at Desert Springs in the New Year for the ‘GOLF 4 ALL PRO-AM’ to be played on the championship Indiana Course between 7th- 8th January 2008. Desert Springs’ touring professionals and Solheim Cup players, Trish Johnson and Becky Brewerton will be joined…read more