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Real Sociedad Golf de Neguri
Type: Golf Location: 48990, Algorta-Getxo, , Spain Address: Campo 'La Galea', Aptdo de Correos 9 |
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Real Sociedad Golf de Neguri
Type: Golf Location: 48990 Algorta-Getxo Address: Campo 'La Galea', Aptdo de Correos 9 |
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Neguri, or Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri to give the club its full title, was founded way back in 1911 and
the original course was an 11hole affair located in Lejona. Fifty years later, the club moved to its present site
in Getxo, Punta Galea, to the north west of Bilbao.
Architect Javier Arana, a Neguri member, was asked by the club to design its new course and he duly
obliged, routing the fairways around 65 hectares of a large estate in such a way that they were able to
comfortably coexist with residential plots which had been set aside to fund the golf project.
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Measuring 6,900 yards from the championship tees, the course is laid out in two loops of nine that each end
close to the clubhouse. It is a golfing layout for the connoisseur, with wide fairways, enormous greens and
minimal greenside bunkering.
Some of the holes on the property sit along the cliff tops, two hundred feet above sea level, and there are fine
vistas of the Cantabrian Sea to be glimpsed through the trees.
One of the best holes on the course is the 211yard, par three 14th which is played uphill to a green protected
by a single bunker – but what an intimidating sand trap that solitary hazard is, with its steep face visible from
the tee, sitting right in front of the raised putting surface.
The club has only hosted one professional championship of note (the 1968 Spanish Open, won by Australian
Bob Shaw) but the course has been used for a number of important national amateur championships: six
times for men (the last in 2010) and five times for ladies (the last in 2007).
Neguri was also chosen as the venue for the 45th edition of the prestigious Jacques Léglise Trophy in 2011,
when the amateur boys team from Great Britain & Ireland defeated Continental Europe by a score of 14.5
points to 9.5 points.
Visitors must play the course with a member but Neguri has a reciprocal arrangement with many Spanish
clubs to allow their members courtesy of the course. Tenby (/golfcourse/tenby) also has such a link with
Neguri so some lucky golfers from Wales may have had the chance to play here for nothing.
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