{"id":226,"date":"2015-03-19T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:04:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:04:45","slug":"around-and-about-the-golf-courses-alenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/around-and-about-the-golf-courses-alenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Around and about the Golf Courses &#8211; Alenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Alenda golf course situated in the foothills of the Sierra de las Aguilas mountains and is close to the city of Alicante has always been a favourite of both tourists and local golf societies alike offering a good quality course at competitive price. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">There is something on offer for all standards of golfer with generous wide fairways for the majority of holes BUT on the back nine there are some serious risk and reward holes that can result in easy birdies or a card destroyer. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Those of you that have been here in Spain for more than a few years will remember the old finca style clubhouse at the foot of the hill but a number of years ago this was replaced by large modern clubhouse perched high on the hill overlooking the 9<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> green next to a covered 14 bay driving range.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The course layout was switched at the time of the clubhouse opening moving around the sequence of holes with the original 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> hole now becoming the 9<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> hole.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The only negative addition has been the construction of netting protection on the side of the 2<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">nd<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> hole to prevent damage to recently built properties which encroaches badly on the tee shot,particularly for people with a slice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Is it just me or would you ever consider purchasing a 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> line golf course property and not expect the possibility of the property being hit by stray golf balls!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Alenda absorbed many of the costs associated with the &#8216;crisis&#8217; and &#8216;IVA Tax&#8217; raise but have recently been forced by the financial circumstances to increase their prices.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">This has given them the opportunity to make changes to the course fabric with new bunkers being sculptured on the 6<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">,7<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">,8<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> and 9<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> holes which will make these holes even more challenging.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you have the opportunity to play this excellent course then do so and add it to your golfing schedule.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alenda golf course situated in the foothills of the Sierra de las Aguilas mountains and is close to the city of Alicante has always been a favourite of both<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/around-and-about-the-golf-courses-alenda\/\">&#8230;..Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}