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| Publication Type: | Professional |
| Author(s): | Anonymous |
| Title: | Los Barrancos de La Zagaleta: Marbella, Spain: A mountainous challenge for Marnoch |
| Section: | On site Other records with the "On site" Section |
| Source: | Golf Course Architecture. Vol. 7, January 2007, p. 56-57, 59. |
| Publishing Information: | Leicester, England: Tudor Rose |
| # of Pages: | 3 |
| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Course profile; Mountainous terrain; Golf course design; Design factors; Golf course development; Golf courses in the environment |
| Facility Names: | Los Barrancos de La Zagaleta Golf Course, in Marbella, Spain |
| Abstract/Contents: | Profiles La Zagaleta Golf Club in Marbella, Spain, stating that "with an 18 hole course built in the late 1990s by American architect Bradford Benz, and with unbuilt villa plots starting at [1.5 million euros], the club is a very quiet, very private sanctuary for its members." Mentions that La Zagaleta Golf Club built another golf course, Los Barrancos, stating that "British architects Gaunt & Marnoch won the contract to design the new course in 2001." Explains that "Marnoch, proud though he is of the Zagaleta course, recognises [recognizes] that much more could have been done." Suggests that a potential difficulty in evaluating Los Barrancos is that there is "very little to compare it to." Mentions that "the contractors have built drainage catch basins every few metres on a slope so dramatic that surface drainage will be perfect...The consequence is that the fairway appears to have dozens of small bomb craters in it." States that "standout holes on the Barrancos course include the par three second, which at first glance appears to be a fairly standard pond hole. But the large green features a terrific pin position atop a severe ledge to the back left...the third hole, a short, sharp uphill par four, offers the bold player a chance to drive the green." Concludes that "simply building a golf course on such an extreme site is a major achievement, and when one factors in the extraneous problems of permitting, environmental restrictions, contractors, landslides...it is hard to imagine how the course ever happened." |
| Language: | English |
| References: | 0 |
| See Also: | See also response letter "[Difficult sites]" Golf Course Architecture, 8 April 2007, p. 6-7 R=127804R=127804 |
| Note: | Pictures, color Figures |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-like – may be incomplete): | Anonymous. 2007. Los Barrancos de La Zagaleta: Marbella, Spain: A mountainous challenge for Marnoch. Golf Course Archit. 7:p. 56-57, 59. |
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| MSU catalog number: | b5218124 |
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