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New Pride in South Africa: Pinnacle Point PerryGolf Named 2006 Golf Tour Operator of the Year
Price Assurance As you might imagine over our years since 1984, we’ve seen every make and model of golf travel proposal. Over and again, it is astounding to see how proposals for the same trip can be so different. Simple interpretation is one of the biggest reasons, a “nice” hotel means 3-star to some and 4-star to others. The scheduled golf is another. For example, you might provide instruction that “We’d be happy with Kingsbarns or Crail depending on availability.” Fair enough but in terms of the greens fees these two are apples and oranges. Does the quote include a sedan or minivan? A driver? Are you scheduled to play on your day of arrival or not? Your proposals may include the same hotels, but if the room categories are different the cost will be too. We have taken great lengths at PerryGolf to educate our travel specialists to ask the right questions, and to subsequently provide an accurate and highly detailed proposal no later than the next business day. Even so we fully understand that comparing proposals can be a puzzle. If ever you would like to be assured that you are comparing apples to apples – or not – feel free to spend as much time as you require with our staff to get the answers you need. This way you’ll have a full understanding of both so that you can book the exact trip you want at a price you trustGolf Gifts
The man is hot. Just after the Golf Channel announced that Nick
Faldo would be its lead PGA Tour analyst in 2007, CBS hired him to replace
Lanny Wadkins. He’s the 2008 Ryder Cup Captain for the Euros,
and he’s building golf courses in three of our favorite spots:
South Africa, Portugal’s Algarve and Northern Ireland. LINKS Magazine’s 2006 Travel Poll Our long time colleagues and friends at LINKS Magazine released their
newest Travel Poll in the November/December issue. The Old Course,
St. Andrews (77%) placed in its usual position atop “Most Like
To Play in Britain”, this year ahead of Carnoustie (49%).
Ballybunion (65%) turns up big for Ireland/Northern Ireland ahead of
Royal County Down (35%). It will be interesting to see the 2007
Poll for Southeast Resorts after The magazine’s usual fine coverage of links golf continues in this issue with a feature on Elie Golf House Club in Scotland. Note also the photographs of The Links at Fancourt, Gary Player’s masterpiece in South Africa.
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Magnificently
perched atop 600 foot sea cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean, newly
christened Pinnacle Point (pictured above) will elevate
South African golf onto the world stage like none before it. With six
exhilarating holes played across deep chasms to greens built on cliffs,
a round here is not for the faint hearted. Unlike many courses that
have a few “flash” holes set amongst mediocrity, Pinnacle
Point has 18 holes of stunning quality, all contributing to what some
are calling “extreme” golf. There is a sea view from
every hole whose horizon conspires with dramatic elevation changes and
wide ravines to deceive the eye. Buy a yardage book by all means,
but truth be told you have to play it twice!
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La
Repose Resort on the East Cape is Faldo’s first in South
African, where he will design two “championship standard”
courses on a striking coastal site. “It is bordered on one
side by the 60km Alexandria dune field (the biggest coastal field of
sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere), on the other by sprawling parkland
and just a stone’s throw from a superb, pristine beach,”
he says. The development also shares the neighborhood with a number
of game reserves, one of which we are always keen to recommend –
the Shamwari Game Reserve. The Amendoeira
Golf Resort, in one of the Algarve’s less developed areas
will offer “a real feel of Arizona which I am confident will emerge
as one of the best examples of a desert-style course in Europe.”
according to Faldo. The Lough Erne Golf Resort
in North West Ireland, one of several Irish projects by Faldo in the
works or recently completed (Ballyliffin renovation),
is spectacularly situated alongside the shores of Castlehume Lough and
Lough Erne which will also be home to a luxury “outdoor lifestyle”
hotel with 69 elegant bedrooms including 26 luxury suites. Both
golf course and hotel are scheduled to open in the summer of 2007
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