|
|
|
|
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BUNKER
|
|
UPDATE: 11/1/2012
Clubhouse: MAR I CEL
C/ Salines, 23
L'Estartit
Tel.: 972 750 337
Open weekends and
Golf days (Tuesday
09.30 - ca. 15.00h)
--------------------
COMMITTEE:
Captain:
Malcolm Debbage
Secretary:
Ray Slough
Treasurer:
Chris Harvey
4th Member:
Norman Wray
Lady Captain:
Mary Clark
PRESIDENT:
Liz Benfell
CLUB E-MAIL:
estartitsandsgc@hotmail.com
|
POLOS / SWEATSHIRTS may be ordered at
CAN GORRES,
Carrer Santa Anna, 27
Tel.: 972 75 07 04
Open during summer season only !!
Prices : Between 8 € (T-shirt) and 15 € (Sweatshirt / Polo) - good quality!
Prices include ESGC badge. Order before 13.00h - collect next morning.
|
|
It was in the winter 1972 when Michael Bailey "Mad Mike" knocked a golf ball on the beach of Estartit in Catalonia/Spain to practice bunker shots.
By coincidence he met another golfer, Vice Air Marshall Sir Roy Flawell and they started a golf competition.
A semicircle close to a bush became the Par 3 "Bush hole", an abandoned perambulator the Par 5 "Pram hole", the foundations of a de-rigged summer bar the Par 4 "Trident hole", and so on until they had designed a 9 hole golf course on the beach between Estartit and Los Griells.
Today, over 30 years later more than 50 members of the Estartit Sands Golf Club are playing the beach course during the winter period. Holes are marked by flags and consist of circles a club length in diametre. Only two irons are allowed, which have to be chosen carefully as there are obstructions and a river at the premises.
|
SANDS Playing Program for 2011/2012 Season
January
13 Friday 13th followed by lunch in the clubhouse (Fish & chips, 6.50€ each person)
17 Slip Day
24 Founders Day
31 Stableford (Joker)
February
07 Monthy Medal
14 Stableford (Joker)
21 Club Championship 1st Leg
28 Club Championship 2nd Leg followed by trophy presentation & lunch
March
06 Monthly Medal
13 Olaf Hingst Trophies
20 Texas Scramble
27 Open Championship followed by trophy presentation for the month, AGM & lunch
April
13 Friday 13th competition held at Gualta followed in the evening by the 40th Anniversary Dinner Dance
|
|
