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PUBLISHER Dermot Synnott
COMMERCIAL MANAGER Dane Galligan
MARKETING MANAGER Kathy Synnott
GOLF TRAVEL EDITOR Peter Ellegard
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER Darren Maguire
PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITORIAL IAGTO, Peter Ellegard,
Kathy Synnott, Kevin Markham, Karl Doyle, Sam Sakocius,
Zenta Thomas, Andrew Marshall, Paul Marshall.
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)
John Cockayne( Africa)
FRONT COVER Hamilton Island, Australia
Welcome to Destination Golf’ s second Global Top 150 Stay & Play Resorts guide.
Wherever you’ re looking to book your golfing holiday for 2018 or 2019, we’ ve got you covered with this, our first guide to the world’ s top Stay & Play golf resorts. Following on from our established Top 100 Europe Stay & Play guide, in which we present our selection of choice golf resorts from 19 countries across Europe, we have chosen a further 50 resorts throughout the rest of the world.
Let us transport you on a golf trip through some of the finest golf resorts worldwide in our 140-page guide. Beyond Europe we take in several resorts in the USA, visiting Florida, California, Arizona, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Hawaii. We also bring you resorts in Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua in Latin America, as well as resorts from a trio of Caribbean nations- Barbados, Tobago and Puerto Rico.
Crossing the Atlantic to the African continent, we put resorts in South Africa, Morocco and Egypt under the microscope, along with ones in Indian Ocean islands Mauritius and Sri Lanka. In Asia, we select resorts in China, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. And we round off with a focus on places to stay and play in Australia and New Zealand.
Our Europe selection takes in resorts from Iberian Peninsula neighbours Spain and Portugal through the Mediterranean via France, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Turkey, to Bulgaria’ s Black Sea coast, then up through Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, and across the Baltic Sea to Sweden, not forgetting British Isles quartet England, Scotland, Wales a nd Ireland.
All our selected resorts offer the best in dining, accommodation and golf experiences that will suit everyone from couples or families to groups. Make sure you check out our highlighted recommended resorts, too.
I hope our guide gives you plenty of food for thought on where to take your next golfing sojourn. There’ s a world of great golf awaiting you.
Peter Ellegard Editor
Dermot Synnott
Editorial Director
Kathy Synnott
Marketing Manager
Peter Ellegard
Golf Travel Editor
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Kevin Markham
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