October 25, 2014 – The five-star La Manga Club is seeking an unprecedented achievement as it looks to be named the best golf resort in Spain for a staggering fourth year in a row.

The multi-award-winning venue, in Murcia, south-east Spain, has been the unanimous choice of readers in the annual travel awards of the UK’s best-selling golf magazine, Today’s Golfer, for the last three years – a unique achievement in itself – and once again heads the list of nominees for the coveted title after enjoying another outstanding 12 months.

It’s been a year in which the world’s top golf coach, David Leadbetter, opened a new €1m world-class golf tuition facility at the club, with, as its centrepiece, a bespoke Leadbetter Academy building – described by the man himself as “comparable with anything I have seen worldwide”. It comes complete with two tuition studios equipped with the latest technology, including Trackman, SAM PuttLab and K-VEST.

La Manga Club is also in line to add to its extensive list of honours after receiving a double nomination for the 1st World Golf Awards, to be held in Portugal next November. Its South Course has been shortlisted for Spain’s Best Golf Course, while its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe is among the nominees to be voted Spain’s Best Golf Hotel.

To vote for La Manga Club in the 2014 Today’s Golfer Travel Awards, visit www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/tgtravelawards.

The iconic South Course has hosted numerous high-profile professional and amateur tournaments – including staging the Spanish Open on five occasions – and has been the centre of attention for European golfers over the last 12 months. As well as being chosen to host the 2014 Spanish Seniors Championship and 2014 Children’s Championships, the famous par-73 layout also held the 1st La Manga Club PGAs of Europe Pro-Am, the climax to the 2014 ECCO Tour Winter Series, and the 2014 Footballers’ Classic.

La Manga Club was also one of only five esteemed venues nominated for the ‘Best Golf Resort in the World’ at the 2014 Telegraph Ultratravel 100 Awards alongside Pebble Beach in California, St Andrews – the Home of Golf – Sandy Lane in Barbados, and eventual winner The Gleneagles Hotel, host to last month’s hugely successful Ryder Cup.

However, the year also saw the sad passing of former owner Gregory Peters, the driving force behind creating Spain’s flagship resort, following his death at the age of 86. Peters opened La Manga Club in 1972, two years after he first began work on the ground-breaking project and he laid the foundations for the venue to be at the forefront of sports and leisure destinations across Europe.

La Manga Club’s general manger, Jose Asenjo, said: “It would be a fitting tribute to the foresight, dedication, energy and innovation of our late founder Gregory Peters if La Manga Club were to win this award for the fourth successive year, in the year of his sad passing. 

“To win it would be a major achievement and deserved recognition for the continued hard work at the resort that keeps it as the benchmark for those who came after. But whether we win this – or any other award – or not, we will continue to offer the best possible service and facilities to our visitors, whether they are holidaying golfers, professional sports teams, families or Hollywood superstars. It is that level of quality which has continued to bring in the accolades since Mr Peters launched the resort in 1972.”

Por REDACCIÓN