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ST ANDREWS, FIFE, UK – The Fairmont StAndrews, a 5-star cliff-top resort, in St An-drews Scotland, the Home of Golf, andhost of the 2010 Final Open Qualifyingtournament announces that both of theircourses, the Torrance and Kittocks, havebeen named among Golfweek’s “Top Mod-ern in Great Britain and Ireland.” The Tor-rance Course ranked No. 20 and theKittocks Course ranked No. 40 among allGreat Britain and Ireland courses buildsince 1960. Both the Torrance and the Kit-tocks courses were in good company withcourses such as The Castle Course andKingsbarns also making the list. "We areflattered that both of our courses – Tor-rance and Kittocks – made Golfweek’s TopModern in Great Britain and Ireland," saysCharles Head, General Manager of Fair-mont St Andrews. "Receiving this honorgreatly reinforces the success of our re-cent investment in the resort and ourcourses.” The Fairmont St Andrews, ranked No.
18 in Conde Nast’s Top 100 Golf Resortsin the World, sits on 520 acres of stun-ning open coastline overlooking the NorthSea and the historic town of St Andrews.In addition to exceptional golf and aworld-class spa, Fairmont St Andrews in-cludes award-winning dining, luxuriousguest accommodations and exceptionalservice, as well as unfettered access tothe charms of St Andrews itself. Forreservations or more information, pleasecall +44 (0) 1334 837000 or visit www.fair-mont.com/standrews.
About Fairmont St Andrews, ScotlandSet in520 acres of breathtaking coastline, FairmontSt Andrews offers an all-round experiencewith two world-championship golf courses aswell as the destination Spa and opportunitiesfor walking, riding and cycling close by. Thehotel also has a wide choice of bars andrestaurants, including the award winning finedining restaurant, Esperante and the Club-house which has sensational views out to
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sea and over to St Andrews. For those seek-ing the ultimate weekend break, the hotelhas its own private helipad and arrival by hel-icopter can be arranged from Scotland’smajor airports
Fairmont Golf operates under the um-brella of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, a globalluxury hospitality leader. The company’s dis-tinctive collection of golf properties includeshistoric icons, breathtaking destinations, andelegant accommodations. Each of these hasbeen created to compliment and integratewith the natural surroundings while reinforc-ing the unique culture and heritage of its set-ting. In this way, Fairmont’s golf propertiesare capable of immersing the guest in thelocal environment through the game of golfwhile providing for them the luxury, excep-tional service and conditioning standardsthey have come to expect from the Fairmontbrand. In addition, Fairmont Golf is engagedin Fairmont's overall commitment to respon-sible tourism through its acclaimed “Greening
Our Greens” program and its support of theAudubon Cooperative Sanctuary System.For more information on golf destinations orto book your next golf adventure at Fairmont,visit www.fairmontgolf.com
ABOUT FAIRMONT HOTELS & RE-SORTSA leader in the global hospitality in-dustry, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is acelebrated collection of 59 distinctive hotels,which includes iconic landmarks like The
Fairmont San Francisco, Fairmont The Nor-folk, Nairobi and Canada’s Fairmont BanffSprings and more than 20 new properties indevelopment, including London’s The Savoyand the Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghaire-opening next year following extensiverestoration programs. Fairmont hotels areone-of-a-kind properties where sophisticatedtravelers can discover culturally rich experi-ences that are authentic to the destination.Situated in some of the most exclusive andpristine areas in the world, Fairmont is com-mitted to responsible tourism and is an in-dustry leader in sustainable hotelmanagement with its award-winning GreenPartnership program.
Fairmont is owned by Fairmont RafflesHotels International, a leading global hotelcompany with 94 hotels worldwide under theRaffles, Fairmont and Swissôtel brands. Thecompany also manages Fairmont and Raf-fles branded Residences, Estates and luxuryprivate residence club properties. For moreinformation or reservations, please call 1-800-441-1414 or visit www.fairmont.com.
Contact:Graeme Dawson - Golf andLeisure Sales ManagerTel: +44 (0) 1334 471 115Fax: +44 (0) 1334 471 115Email:[email protected]:www.fairmont.com
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Top 100 Golf Courses, home of the most in-formed golf course rankings in the world, an-nounces its 2010 rankings of the Top 100Golf Courses of Continental Europe.
The Top 100 website (www.top100golf-courses.co.uk) has featured rankings undermany categories for a number of years, but ithas been more than two years since they up-dated their rankings for Europe’s Top 100Golf Courses.
Their rankings take into account everyshred of published ranking data and theyconsider golf courses from every ContinentalEuropean country. Additionally, they keep awatchful eye on the golf clubs and listen tohundreds of thousands of visitors that surfthe Top 100 website.
The result is the most informed Europeanrankings ever produced. Unlike golf maga-zines, which pay lip service to the Continen-tal European rankings, Top 100 Golf Courseshas been compiling European rankings for
more than five years. They have also com-pletely re-ranked every single Europeancountry and nearly 400 top Europeancourses have changed position.
There is no new European No.1 becausethe outstanding aristocratic Morfontaine re-mains the top course, however, there are 20new entries into their all-new Top 100. TheVineuil course at Chantilly is one of the high-est climbers and Monte Rei jumps a massive23 places into the Top 10. The highest newentry is the Robert Trent Jones II-designedLukber, which took five years in the making.
Ranking golf courses is all about opinionsand it’s the honest comments from visitors tothe Top 100 website that truly cut to thechase.
To see the 2010 Continental European listfrom Top 100 Golf Courses click here. Toview their European Top 100 in detail, clickhere.
Top 100 Golf Courses actively encour-ages feedback; so if you’d like to contactthem, send an email to [email protected]
Contact:Malcolm SearleEmail: [email protected]: www.top100golfcourses.co.uk
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"Indien väntar" är egentligen titeln på en re-seberättelse av Jan Myrdal och Gun Kessledär de i ord och bild rapporterar från gårda-gens Indien.
Det är ett mäktigt resultat av många årsresor och arbete. Ett väldigt land med ensjundedel av världens befolkning som ryckernärmare, med alla sina enorma problem,men även med en sjudande utveckling ochstora möjligheter för framtiden.
Av 1,1 miljarder invånare totalt lär det en-ligt statistiken finnas en övre medelklass på380 miljoner människor. Och den fortsätteratt växa. Hur många av dessa som spelargolf vet vi inte. Men om intresset skulle varapå samma nivå som i Sverige skulle detfinnas 20 miljoner golfare i Indien, har redak-tör Hagfeldt i Golf Digest räknat ut.
En starkt växande ekonomi gör det möjligtatt satsa på nya golfprojekt i Indien. För golf-spelande svenska turister är det onekligenett spännande resmål.
Oxford Country Club (på Peter Cordénsbild) är ett spännande exempel.
Oxford Properties driver anläggningensom ligger i en grönskimrande dal mellanMumbai (Bombay) och Pune. Banan har ri-tats av ett designteam från Australien mednamnet Pacific Coast Design.
I den kuperade terrängen ligger 18 läckrahål utlagda.
Att det finns gott om golftradition i landetär Royal Calcutta ett grönt bevis för. Hit komgolfen med engelsmännen redan 1829 ochbanan blev därmed den allra första i de fornabrittiska kolonierna.
Jan Myrdal tillhörde de pionjärer som islutet av 50-talet reste ut i tredje världen ochskildrade folkens liv i avkoloniseringens tide-varv. Tillsammans med Gun Kessle restehan i Afghanistan, Indien, Turkmenistan ochKina.
Hans böcker från denna tid har fort-farande hög aktualitet (nyligen kom Resa i
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Afghanistan ut i en sjätte upplaga). MedRapport från kinesisk by (1963) fick han sittinternationella genombrott. Han har sedandess skrivit flera böcker om Kina och kine-sisk politik. Han har också återvänt till Indien(Indien väntar, 1980) och rest i och skrivit omMexico, Albanien och Kambodja. Han har,också tillsammans med Gun Kessle, pub-licerat böcker om romansk konst, om konstoch konstnärer.
Med boken Samtida och sina skriftställ-ningar varje söndag i Aftonbladet i slutet av60- och början av 70-talet kom Jan Myrdalatt bli en central gestalt för den radikala vän-stern i Sverige.
Av hans skönlitterära produktion har denmemoarserie som inleddes med Barndom1983 väckt stor uppmärksamhet och nått enbred publik. Den avslutas med Gubbsjuka.
August Strindberg har varit en centralgestalt för Jan Myrdal och hans förfat-tarskap. Han har i många artiklar diskuterat
Strindbergs arbeten och liv. År 2000 gav hanut en biografisk betraktelse över Strindberg,Johan August Strindberg, För den fick han år2002 Ivar Lo-priset.
Inbunden, rikt illustrerad med fotografier ifärg och svartvitt, 408 sid., utg. 1980. Sky-ddsomslaget trasigt över ryggen, i övrigt fintskick.
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Golf clubs across the UK, Europe andworldwide have been queueing up to joinMyGolf Pass.com following its launch lastmonth.The new website for golfers and golf
clubs, which is free to join and is themost innovative of its kind, has been in-undated with requests from courses thelength and breadth of the UK to sign upand take advantage of the chance to pro-mote all aspects of their club.
Hayling Golf Club, one of the outstandinglinks courses in England and regularly in-cluded in the top 100 courses in the country,and DeVere Staverton Park are two of thenew venues to have joined.
Volturno Golf, In
Naples, Italy, has also signed up while therehas even been a club from Cambodia comeon board with the Sir Nick Faldo’s designedAnkor Golf Resort keen to ensure they don’tmiss out on the opportunity to join the dis-count golf scheme.
Rob Sutton, managing director of MyGolf-Pass.com, said: “There isn’t a scheme likeMyGolfPass.com anywhere else and it’s im-perative that we offer our members their pickof the some of the best courses anywhere inthe world.
“We are delighted with the fantastic re-sponse we have had from clubs who can seethe advantages of belonging to the scheme.
Many clubs are already on the variousschemes currently available, we areasking clubs to provide similar dealswith the added value of promoting alltheir offerings in detail on the websiteand on the top of every e-pass ourgolfers buy to play at their course.
“Courses can change any oftheir offerings at any time buy justlogging into MyGolfPass. Newcourses are coming on board allthe time and we want to give asmany people as possible thechance to experience some ofthe most prestigious andrenowned venues in the worldfor some of the most competi-
tive green fees.“MyGolfPass.com is all about helping
golfers and clubs get the most out of the
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game and we believe we can do that in themonths and years to come.”
MyGolfPass.com now boasts an impres-sive list of nearly 1,500 courses across theglobe including some of the leading venuesin the UK, Europe, North America and be-yond.
The scheme, launched at the start of lastmonth, offers clubs the unique opportunity topromote all aspects of their club, includingnew membership recruitment, society andopen days, pro-shop offers, buggy hire anddriving range deals, bar and catering offersand even on course accommodation if appli-cable.
Under MyGolfPass.com, golfers can buyan e-pass (electronic pass) for just £1.95 toplay a course on days and times which suitclubs.
People joining the new scheme can buyindividual e-passes or can spend £24.95 foran annual pass which entitles them to unlim-ited e-passes over a 12-month period.
But instead of having to wait for vouchersor cards by post, e-passes will be instant,meaning golfers can enjoy a discountedround of golf at their chosen course on thesame day as they buy their discount e-pass.Golf clubs and secretaries will automaticallybe notified by e-mail that a golfer has boughtan e-pass to play their course.
Sutton added: “There’s never been any-thing like this before. Clubs can promote any-thing they want on the MyGolfPass website,from green fee and winter warmer offers,new member recruitment, society and opendays to pro shop promotions and sales andfuture events happening at the given course.
“If we can generate more money for a golfclub, then that means that they might nothave to put the membership fees up, be-cause at the moment there’s a tendency toturn back to the members if more cash isneeded.”
For a full list of courses, to register or formore information on MyGolfPass.com,please visit
Information for media: Issued by AndrewTremlett Associates. For more details,please contact Andy Tremlett on 07775842716 or Pete Simm on 07747 012539,or e-mail or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]
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”Våra huvudmarknader har tidigare varitFrankrike, England, Tyskland och Hollandmen nu vill vi också nå de Skandinaviskagolfarna. Siktet är inställt på att nå de cirka1 miljon golfare som finns i Skandinavien”,säger Laurent Boissonnas, Director of De-velopment på franska Open Golf Club.
Open Golf Clubs destinationer är Opal-kusten i norra Frankrike, Biarritz och ävenParis, Dordogne och Provence. Bland annatingår kända anläggningar som Château desVigiers, Le Touquet, Opio Valbonne och Mo-liets.
”Två anläggningar är nya för i år och detär Barbaroux i Provence och Golf de Raray,strax norr om Paris. 2010 är ett spännandeår och utan att säga för mycket, så lanserarvi nya anläggningar senare i år som jag vetkommer att uppskattas mycket av Skandi-naver”, säger Laurent Boissonnas.
Open Golf Club är Frankrikes ledandegolf- och hotellkonsortium. De erbju-der golfspel på över 20 banor och bo-ende på ett 15-tal hotell på sex olikafranska destinationer, däribland LeTouquet, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Paris ochNice. I år gör Open Golf Club en satsning påSkandinavien med en egen representa-tion och två nya anläggningar.
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För mer information,Stefan Brikell på +46 8 410 300 55 [email protected] Laurent Boissonnas på +33 1 42 89 1872 [email protected]
Dessutom satsar Open Golf Club på egensvensk representation i Skandinavien föratt förstärka närvaron och på det sättet nåde skandinaviska golfresenärerna.
”Våra golfbanor är enastående, interna-tionellt erkända och anpassade till allanivåer av spelare, allt i kombination medfransk livsnjutning med god mat, godaviner och härlig kultur, säger Stefan Brikell,ansvarig för Open Golf Club i Skandi-navien.
”En av mina personliga favoriter är LeTouquet på Opalkusten i norra Frankrike,ett område som fortfarande är ganskaokänt bland svenska golfare. Ryanair hardagliga flyg från Skavsta till Beauvais,strax norr om Paris. Opalkusten är en oup-ptäckt pärla för de skandinaviska golfarnaoch jag lovar att man inte kommer att blibesviken”, fortsätter Stefan Brikell.
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The Swedish Golf Experience takesyou on a journey from the southern areaof Skåne to a spot 250 kilometers abovethe Arcic Circle. The Swedish Golf Ex-perience opens a doorway to the manyvaried and beautiful types of golfcourses there are in this golfing hide-away, Sweden.
More information: [email protected]
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