ONE MILLION EUROS REDEVELOPMENT OF SPANISH CENTRE
DAVID LEADEBETTER
NEW DAVID LEADBETTER GOLF
ACADEMY AT LA MANGA
NEWS RELEASE
Regarded by many as the
leading golf instructor in the world, David Leadbetter will be on hand to
officially open his new Leadbetter Golf Academy at Spain’s five-star La Manga
Club resort in September.
Leadbetter, who is based in
Florida, is set to fly in to perform the opening ceremony on Monday, September
15 at his latest academy, which provides the centrepiece of a €1million
redevelopment of La Manga Club’s extensive teaching and practice centre.
Among the new facilities on
offer, the new academy – the only such facility in mainland Spain – will have
two tuition rooms, both equipped with the latest technology including Trackman,
SAM PuttLab and K-VEST.
The first David Leadbetter
Golf Academy was established in 1983 and the opening of the new La Manga Club
facility means that there are now 28 full-time David Leadbetter Golf Academies
spread across 13 countries.
As part of his visit to La
Manga Club, Leadbetter will also give a series of one-to-one tuition sessions
to a limited number of resort guests, local juniors and selected members of the
media, where they can experience the award-winning venue’s outstanding new
practice facilities.
La Manga Club’s practice centre now has four short-game areas for bunkers and
chipping, three large putting greens and four teaching classrooms which are
ideal for visiting professionals on tuition breaks.
On the driving range, two 36-metre
Huxley grass tees, three extra mat teeing areas and a 150-metre
wide, 35-metre deep grass tee area have been installed for hitting to a
number of new targets on the extended 300 metre-long range.
A number of
trees and artificial bunkers have been added to give better definition to the
range targets and its surroundings.
Gary Silcock, pictured right, La Manga Club’s Scots-born director
of golf who designed its new practice centre, said: “This great new facility
will allow the Leadbetter Golf Academy to be at the hub of the resort’s golf
operation, and we have been very careful to design the facility with all
business sectors in mind.
“The pro-group business during the
winter period is very important to the whole business and, with this in mind,
we have designed four classrooms so they can have their own ´office' space
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