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PUBLISHER Dermot Synnott
COMMERCIAL MANAGER Dane Galligan
MARKETING MANAGER Kathy Synnott
DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER Adam Rogers
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER Darren Maguire
PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITORIAL
IAGTO , Peter Ellegard Sam Sakocius Diana DeLucia Kathy Synnott
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES David Doyle ( Spain ) Albert Ferrer ( Spain )
Francisco Pinto Leite ( Portugal ) Ronald Montesano ( USA )
Peter Barnes ( UK ) Gene Oberto ( Sweden ) Gianni Attanasio ( Italy )
Paul Chan ( China ) Maarten Hageman ( Netherlands ) Benjamin Oosterveer ( Morocco ) Kevin Markham ( Ireland ) Declan Crowe ( Malaysia ) Wayne Morden ( Canada )
Lee Owen ( Australia ) Pall Sveinsson ( Iceland ) Dewi Merckx ( Belgium )
Ru Macdonald ( Scotland ) Zenta Thomas ( Asia )
FRONT COVER Anfi Tauro GC , Gran Canaria
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Across the last two months our team has been busy attending press visits and press launches shows Toronto Golf Show ( Canada e ) and Rhein Golf ( Germany ). This follows on from our to learn more about other destinations . In this issue we take a look at golfing options in Gran Canaria media , partnership Andalucia , Myanmar with the inaugural and Indonesia World . Our Golf team Awards of reporters , which will took be place able to in the detail Algarve their
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