The Argentine National Institute of Tourism Promotion will be present at both the Barclays Scottish Open (9th-12th July – at Loch Lomond) and the traditional British Open Championship (16th – 19th July at Turnberry) hosting a programme of activities especially designed to promote Argentina as a leading golfing destination in South America. Among those activities, there will have a promotional stand in the main golf village at the Scottish Open and advertising of www.argentina.travel along the 4 days of the tournament. At the British Open, just two days before the starting on the 14th July, there will be a special event for the press with some of our players at Turnberry hosted by the Golf Attache of the Argentine Tourist Board, Susan Marples, for a selected group of journalists and operators.

(más…)

Last week we visited one of the many courses under construction and that will be open in the next year. This fantastic layout located very close to the city of Lujan, designed and constructed by argentine Angel Reartes, will be one of the best ones. Long course, very big greens, a lot of surrounding water, the usual presence of wind will give local golfers one of the best available options to test their game. Measuring over 7400 yds from the back tees, you will need power and accuracy to score. We played the front 9 (back nine are under grown in stage) and we felt the adrenaline of hitting drive (4^th hole) and 3-wood (6^th) on the two par 3s we played, amazing!

(más…)

Olivos Golf Club has finished the course changes the R&A and USGA established were necessary to get the course in condition for next year´s event. Both Buenos Aires Golf Club and Olivos Golf Club are in the final stage of course conditioning to get these two top 100 courses as good as they can be.

(más…)

The Argentine Golf Association and IMG Argentina have decided to move the Open to December, as this year and because of the economic crisis, it won´t be co-sponsored by the European Challenge Tour. Although this can change and the event could be the first one of the 2010 season, at least the change of dates assures the participation of our main stars Angel Cabrera, Andres Romero, Eduardo Romero, Ricardo Gonzalez, Estanislao Goya, Daniel Vancsik and Rafael Echenique.

(más…)