Dear Industry Colleague,

In our featured article this month, we take a closer look at one of the most important golf resorts in Europe. It is also where Marion and I live for half of the year. La Manga is a remarkable place and it has the most highly developed infrastructure of any golf resort outside of America. It has three great courses and is a golfing Shangri-La. We love it and we hope that we’ve reflected some of this adoration in the article below.

Congratulations to Wyndham Clark for his outstanding victory in the US Open where he had to fight not just the very tough course at Shinnecock Hills but also the fans, who seemed to turn incredibly against him. I don’t think Clark is a master of charm: having smashed up his locker room area at the US Open last year, he is regarded as a bit of a crude and temperamental character. Nevertheless, he played sublime golf and the New York fans really should know better. I do quite like the fact that they call out such poor behaviour even from an American trying to win the US Open. Rather this than pure partisan hostility as seen last in the Ryder Cup.

Very soon the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale will be upon us. It is high time that Tommy Fleetwood won a major event and what better setting could there be than Royal Birkdale just a few miles from where he grew up and started his golfing journey. Come on Tommy.

Best wishes,

Colin Jenkins
(07768) 887033