March 31, 2010
Tomorrow sees the start of the Easter Funlandia family programme, with loads of fun activities for the whole family.
Highlights include the Great Race, taking place this Friday, a Family Fun Day with sack races, tug of war and more on Easter Monday, family volleyball tournaments, cocktail and paella demonstrations, face painting, family fitness and more.
Click here for the full programme.
March 30, 2010
Crafts, clothes, food and more… This colourful street market is open daily at Las Lomas Village in La Manga Club until April 11th.
March 28, 2010
The Lady Taverners is a vital and dedicated fundraising arm of The Lord’s Taverners, a leading youth sports and disability charity and the official charity of recreational cricket, which this year celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Since their formation in 1987, The Lady Taverners have raised over ÂŁ6 million for specially adapted minibuses and sport and recreation for young people with special needs.
Over the years, The Lady Taverners fundraising efforts at La Manga Club have seen more than ÂŁ75,000 contributed to worthy causes including the sponsorship of specially adapted minibuses for special-needs schools in the UK and a sensory playground for a school in North Humberside.
This year, the popular Lady Taverners Charity Celeb-Am will be returning to La Manga Club’s fairways for the ninth time, from May 24-28.
Hosted by the charity’s president and former England women’s cricket captain, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint – who represented Staffordshire in her early golfing days – the event gives golfers the chance to enjoy some sunshine golf alongside famous faces, while raising money for youngsters with special needs.
The five-day event includes a welcome reception and optional practice round, followed by two days of fun but competitive mixed team golf. A gala dinner and presentation supper are also part of the package.
Among the competitors will be legendary golf commentator Alex Hay and TV and cabaret star Dillie Keane , with other celebrities expected to sign up in the coming weeks.
More information on The Lord’s Taverners website.
March 27, 2010
Winner of the Elisenda de Moncada Prize for Novel Writing in 1953, the SimĂłn BolĂvar International Poetry Prize in 1957, the Doncel Prize in 1960 and the National Literature Award in 1967, amongst others, in 1978 Carmen Conde was the first woman to be admitted as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Despite having spent many years away, she never forgot the city where she was born. In her will, she left to the City of Cartagena all of her literary works and those of her husband, Antonio Oliver Belmás (d. 1968), her archive and library (comprising some 7000 volumes, including a number of valuable first editions, many of which are signed by their author), and the furniture and household effects from her last home, all of which can be seen today in the Carmen Conde – Antonio Oliver Museum in the “RamĂłn Alonso Luzzy” Cultural Centre in Cartagena.
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March 25, 2010
The FA’s communications director, Adrian Bevington, and Richard Masters, the commercial director of the Premier League, were  among a host of top sports executives visiting La Manga Club for the Leaders in Football conference.
Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester City and Celtic were among the teams represented, alongside European heavyweights such as Real Madrid and Ajax and global brands including the NBA, NFL, Coca Cola and internet giants Yahoo.
The conference saw more than 50 of the top decision makers in European sport enjoy three days of meetings and networking at La Manga Club.
March 24, 2010
Today we have a guest blogger: Mark Hook, head coach and director of La Manga Club’s golf academy, who tells us what makes La Manga Club’s 18-hole Par 47 course (which, coincidentally, was designed with Severiano Ballesteros in the 1980s) such a special golf experience.
Over to Mark:
La Manga Club’s philosophy from the beginning with the Par 47 was to design a fun golfing experience for all the family, allowing non-golfers to experience golf and find out what all the fuss us golfers keep going on about is about! But the end result was an 18-hole pitch and putt that is not only great fun for all the family, but is also a great experience of real time golf.
The greens are beautifully manicured and cut with some subtle right-to-left and left-to-right putts, which makes for great fun, especially when Dad doesn’t quite get the ball to the hole while one of the kids has just casually knocked theirs straight in. (It’s OK Dads, my son got me too!).
The Par 3s have also been well planned, designed and constructed. Excellent greens for putting and real bunkers with light rough around three of the holes give you just what you need to experience all types of shots. There are eleven Par 3s in all, ranging from 20 to 35 metres in distance and very playable for all the family. Added to all of this fun, the course is beautifully landscaped with tropical palms and green parkland trees, which makes for some great photo opportunities, especially on the 16th and 18th which are real show holes, as well as fun for family and friends.
“Not for me”, I hear you handicapped golfers say. Well, may I give you all a friendly challenge: Give the Par 47 course a try and see if you can make the gross 47 shots; I think you might need more than your club handicap to beat this gem of a course. It’s a great course to sharpen up your short-game skills. If you find one or two of the shots a little tougher than you thought, come and see me at the golf academy for a few tips that might help you next time round. Or if you are one of the few who can score 47, come and give me some tips!
Happy golfing,
Mark Hook
If you’d like to see Mark talking about La Manga Club golf academy on La Manga Club’s YouTube channel, click here >>
