Patagonia is growing fast to become Argentina´s golf best destination. Chapelco Golf Club (Nicklaus) was the first course opened in San Martin de los Andes, now El Desafio Golf Club (Norman) just in fron of Chapelco is on the go and this new development in Junin de los Andes (15kms away from Chapelco) will turn this area in a fantastic and undiscovered golf destination.

The course will be located by the Chimehuin River and will be surrounded by a Real Estate development. It is planned to respect all the natural features of the area and really show the beauty by the river. This links golf course will be designed together by Randy Thomspon with the Argentine Golf Association collaboration.

Golfers, Fly fishers, lovers of natural life will be delighted with this unique place, a fantastic golf course and one of the best rivers for fly fishing. The development will continue to strengthen Argentina´s position as one of the best golf destinations in the world.

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.

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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!

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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.

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