Seasonal Golf Pricing
Well it hardly seems 5 minutes since I was writing the last golf article on the subject of seasonal golf pricing introducing the winter offers. The bad news is that the good times are almost over because as from 1st March 2015 we have the return of the high season price strategy operated by our Spanish golf courses hosts. Love it or hate it but this strategy will continue to be used while tourist golfers continue to pay the higher prices and believe me they are because trying to get a tee time at courses such as Las Colinas and La Finca in the period between 1st March and 30th April 2015 is almost an impossible task. It would appear that Northern European golfers in particular flood to the region in the spring and return north in the summer months. This year is actually different to last year because the courses think that they have seen the green shoots of recovery and decided that now is the time to claw back some of the costs that they have absorbed during the period of crisis with the result that many courses have increased their prices for the new high season period. The tourist golfer from the UK is a happy bunny at the moment because with the exchange rate nudging £1 = €1.34 their golf has got a little cheaper despite these increases. Unfortunately the resident British golfer has to endure higher prices for their golf during this period on an already stretched pension in many cases and to add illness to injury they will soon be losing the winter heating allowance (I wish that the person in the UK responsible for making this decision and who thinks that winters in Spain are warm would stay in my house and go for a pee in the middle of the night).To put this little lot into perspective,there will be few courses where you can play for less than €50,including a buggy and these will only be available through agents such as Costa Blanca Green Fee Services. There will be a small number of special deals available during this time and we at the Leader will keep you informed of these as they arise BUT for now why not fill your boots until 28th February 2015 with some cheap golf.