Barcelona Golf,Torremirona Golf & Spa together with Peralada Casino are offering poker, golf and spa in one unique package to members of casinos, clubs and poker leagues. Torremirona is situated in the beautiful Empordan region in the north-east of Spain and easily accessible from most parts of Europe as we are only 25 minutes from Barcelona Girona Airport (RyanAir), 20 minutes from the French border and 1 ½ hours drive from Barcelona. Torremirona resort includes a 4-star Hotel-Relais, 1 & 2 luxury bedroom apartments, 18-hole Championship Golf Course, several Restaurants including “El Canigo”, Health Club and Spa.

To promote the Poker trips we are offering packages at a discounted rate which include transport, accommodation, breakfast and the tourney buy-in. The packages could then be offered to your clients through satellites, prizes or however you feel could be of interest to you.

The Poker tournaments are held on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Thursdays of each month, (please note that if a month has 5 Thursdays there is no tournament), with buy-ins ranging from 100€ – 400€. A typical break has been to arrive on the Wednesday with an optional private tournament on Wednesday evening, guaranteed entry to a no-limit Texas Hold´em tournament on Thursday evening with between 100-200 entrants and a first place prize of 6,000€ – 20,000€. As the tournaments start at 21.00h, Friday is for relaxing at the resort with departure on Saturday.

Torremirona golf & spa is located 25mins from Barcelona Girona Airport (RyanAir), 20mins from the beaches of Costa Brava and set at the foot of the pyrenees. Torremirona owns two golf courses in the area both if which are Championship courses in excellent condition all year round and have held professional Tournaments including the European QS, Challenge Tour events, and Ladies European events.

Torremirona is in a beautiful, tranquil area which apart from great golf has much more to offer, excellent restaurants, horse riding, hiking, winery visits, the Dalí museum, Perelada Casino and much more.

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Le golf de Barcelone a créé le paquet parfait pour ceux qui aimeront jouer au golf dans certains des meilleurs terrains de golf dans Catalunya et ceux qui aimeront éprouver le monde de vin par un du vinyards le plus emblématique dans “des Sommets de roche” Catalunya. Combinez le monde de golf, un tour de VIP de Sommets de roche Vinyard, la dégustation de vins et la gastronomie catalane dans le côté de pays ou à Barcelone Paseo de Gracia.

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Barcelona Golf will once again be offering golf days for delegates attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. In past congresses we have organized Corporate Golf Days for various companies and their clients at some of the best courses Catalonia has to offer including the PGA Catalunya, Real Club El Prat and Masia Bach.

Barcelona Golf will also be offering packages to individual delegates and small groups which can include not only green fees but buggy hire, transport, club hire and excellent lunches in the clubhouse or nearby restaurants. Barcelona Golf has 40 sets of golf clubs including 20 sets of Callaway X20 for delegates who do not wish to bring their own.

Our clients at previous Congresses have included: Vodafone, Samsung, China Telecom, IBM and O2.

Barcelona Golf & Incentives will also be delighted to organise Pre & Post Congress Golf Breaks for those delegates looking for some relaxation. Find out more and contact us…

EIBTM is the leading exhibition for the conference, incentives, events, business travel and meetings industry, held in the city of Barcelona.
Barcelona Golf will once again be attending and we can be found at stand number N500 where we will answer any questions you may have.

Founded in 1914 and designed by Harry S. Colt, Sant Cugat is the oldest golf course in Catalonia and came into being as a way of attracting highly qualified British and American engineers to the area, some of whom were working on the new Barcelona-Sant Cugat railway line. Golf was slow to take on with few courses being built and only then for the more prosperous amongst the community, the most notable being the Real Club El Prat in 1954.

It was not until the 1990’s that golf really started to take a hold and courses started to spring up on a more notable scale mainly in the Costa Brava and to a lesser degree in the Costa Daurada. In 1999 the spectacular PGA de Catalunya course, designed by Neil Coles and Angel Gallardo opened and was an instant success being handed the Sarazen World Open in October that year and the Spanish Open in April the following year by the European Tour, a record in itself. The year 2000 was to prove something very special for golf on the Costa Brava as it received the award as the ‘Best emerging golf destination in the world’ by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators.

Quite probably, Catalonia will always be chasing Andalucia in terms of numbers of golf courses but in quality the story differs somewhat. For one thing we can boast of superbly designed courses set in majestic surroundings, whether it be overlooking the crystal waters of the Mediterranean or having the imposing snow-capped peaks of the Pyrenees as a backdrop.

Golf and golf courses will always have an air of controversy about them and probably more so in Catalonia where issues of water and land use are hotly contested in one form or another. In recent weeks a variety of reports have surfaced on the theme of golf courses, including a television documentary on the subject, albeit involving a slant on a construction issue as well. One thing is pretty certain; that with modern advances in water treatment and desalination plants the issue of water should not pose a problem taking into account that the courses are also nowadays sown with grass more hardy to withstand the
particular climate.

Catalonia has suffered this year along with the rest of Spain from a decrease in the number of tourists arriving in the country. The debates have once again opened on whether to build more golf courses, albeit on a more forceful note in order to promote a better quality of tourism. Studies show that golfers do, in general spend more money on holiday, 20% on the golf and 80% on a variety of other things including hotels, restaurants and cultural tours. Opinions are varied on the issue but the general census of opinion is now tending to lean towards the courses, however this leads to another issue in that many courses in the planning stages are in the hands of large construction companies who also want to construct high quality homes on the borders of fairways and greens. There are concerns that these homes are built as either second residences for Spanish nationals or holiday homes for foreigners, mainly from the northern parts of Europe. We are therefore confronted once again with the idea that golf is an elitist sport that is only there for people who can afford it; incidentally the same has happened with second homes in the mountain areas that are only used for skiing in season and resemble ghost towns for most of the year.

The idea that golf is an elitist sport should have left us a long time ago by the number of people who play
the game all over the world and from all walks of life. In Catalonia golf has to be more accessible, the building of Par 3 Pitch and Putt courses here has gone a long way to alleviate the problem and has proved an excellent way to introduce people to the game.

If we go back to the subject of good quality tourism, which includes golf, then we should be thinking in terms of enticing people to visit Catalonia with good quality hotels, apartments, guesthouses and restaurants so that they return again and again.

Golf for tourists and foreigners living and working in Catalonia is excellent with open tournaments and circuits being held at various clubs every week throughout the year all over the country. The only stipulation is that a handicap certificate is needed, a general requirement wherever one goes.

At Barcelona Golf we organise golf days for businesses, congresses and conventions as well as tailor made golf holidays for groups and individuals in Catalonia. For more information contact us here.