La Estancia Golf Club, eighteen holes in the middle of nature, without any building or urbanization in sight, is located in the heart of the Costa de la Luz, in the Barrosa Beach, in Chiclana de la Frontera; next to the Novo Sancti Petri Urbanization, where there is a hotel complex of the highest level, with 4 and 5 star establishments with more than 14,000 beds.
All the hotels are located on the seafront, in one of the most impressive beaches of southern Spain; in an area of the province of Cadiz that is recognized worldwide for its excellent wines, which also has the largest herd of cattle in the country, which is the largest and best tuna fishing area of the Spanish coast; which has one of the best gastronomies of the Atlantic coast (it is fair to remember its cheeses from the payoya goat that have won very important international awards), and is also very close to the Alcornocales National Park, the white villages of Cadiz, and places full of charm and history as Medina Sidonia, Tartifa, Zahara de los Atunes, Conil, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Sanlucar de Barrameda, and a host of other attractions that give this area a very special charm.
If we add to all this the fact that the surrounding area is home to one of the most attractive golf destinations in Spain, a visit is, without a doubt, a must. That is why those responsible and tourist managers of this first class destination do not understand why the local, provincial and regional administrations do not do much more to promote the area, to facilitate flights to Jerez airport and, in short, to take more care of an area that is a gift of nature and that any European country would pamper.
THE BIG CHANGE
Faced with the blindness of the official bodies, it is the businessmen and professionals of the sector who do not give up and day by day maintain and improve a unique area in Europe.
La Estancia Golf Club, for example, has undergone a radical transformation in the last two years. It has gone from being a course with a magnificent design but with some deficiencies to being one of the references in the area after having made the improvements it needed. It has taken a 180-degree turn with the change of the entire vegetation layer of the course, with the adaptation of the irrigation system, with the touch-ups and improvements that have been made in the design, without modifying it substantially. Two new lakes have been added and the total distance has been increased to 6,390 m. from white.
“Right now,” says course director Carlos de Avilés, “we have a course with optimal playing conditions, which has become a very competitive product, with an exceptional quality/price ratio.”
This course is purely commercial, pay and play, with a few subscribers, and the vast majority of those who play it for the first time are surprised by the quality of this course, which remains one of those unknown gems that occasionally surprise us when we discover them.
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