The Pocket Guide to
Golf Courses: Spain & Portugal
Greg Turner and Beckenham Publishing launch a new series of
Golf Course Guides The Pocket Guide to Golf Courses: Spain & Portugal, 14th October 2004
Beckenham Publishing today publishes the first in a
new series “The Pocket Guide to Golf Courses”.
The first volume covers the leading courses of Spain and Portugal, the
single most popular golf tourist destination for European based golfers.
The key features of the guide, which heralds new standards in golf
course evaluation, are:
- courses awarded star ratings for excellence in design
- Holes rated individually with traffic light ‘green-yellow-red’
(strong to weak) colour code system – a new concept
- The top holes awarded ‘gold hole’ status
- At a glance summary description of course
- A feast of beautiful photographs, generally giving the player’s
eye view
Written by well-travelled golf players and course designers,
including leading NZ Tour player Greg Turner, highly respected for his
views on course design, the guide draws from their combined knowledge
and experience to give you the best available assessments of the courses
of Spain & Portugal, including the Balearics, Canaries, Madeira and the
Azores.
Packaged to be ideal for a present (customised covers available for
corporate orders of 100+), the book is an indispensable addition to the
travelling golfer’s jacket pocket or golf bag, suitable alike for:
- golfers travelling to Iberia (more than ½ million p.a.)
- Iberia residents & holiday-house owners
- golf course design enthusiasts
- armchair travellers
The book is available direct from
www.pocket-golf.com or at leading bookshops and pro-shops. RRP
£14.99.
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William fforde, Editor, said: ‘Our purpose is to set
new levels for golf course guides. As we publish, there is no single
volume which deals exclusively, selectively, authoritatively and in
pocket book format with the most popular golf destination in Europe.
Most existing publications on the subject are funded directly or
indirectly by parties with vested interests. We have no such
connections.’
Greg Turner, Tour Editor, said: ‘There are many
accepted principles of good golf course design, but most stem back
to those set out by Dr Alister MacKenzie in his book ‘Golf
Architecture’ in 1920. What makes ours different is that we give
ratings for every hole, as well as for the course as a whole.
However, whichever principles one adopts, ultimately
we are dealing very much with a subjective matter: there is no right
answer as to which course is better than another – it is a matter of
personal taste and judgment. That is what makes it all the more
interesting. What we have done is to stick our necks out, to say
what our particular team of well-travelled golf design experts feel.
More than anything we hope to encourage debate, and that it will
lead to the consumer requiring higher standards. We look forward to
e-feedback from readers and hope that this will encourage us in our
quest to publish further volumes covering other parts of the world.
We are already well into the research for volumes on Great Britain
and Ireland…
In any event, the guide provides all the information
the travelling golfer needs – and the photographs are outstanding.’
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