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El Saler Golf Club
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. This game does not have any fixed standard playing area, but an ideal measurement can be decided as per the availability of space and number of players involved. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is now becoming an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society.
The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. Golf is played on a tract of land known as the course which consists of a series of holes or cups. Most golf courses usually consist of nine or eighteen holes. There are several types of golf courses namely Parkland, Links, Healthland, Desert, Browns, Sand, Snow, Par3 and Executive.
El Saler Golf Club is located in Spain. The club was established in 1967 and designed by architect Javier Arana with 18 holes. Located on a narrow stretch of dunes and dense pinewoods separating the Albufera Lagoon from the Mediterranean Sea, the Parador El Saler enjoys an advantaged location in a superb natural environment, bordered by a miles long stretch of sandy beach. The famous El Saler Golf Course is ranked among the Top 10 in Europe and Top 100 in the world.
This par 72 course has 18 holes measuring 6,335 meters or 6,928 yards with a slope gradient of 131 for a standard scratch score of 73.8 from the championship tees. For tee times reservation is requested, walking is allowed and buggies available, soft spikes only. Particular dress code is required. Ranked amongst the Top 100 in the world and Top 10 in continental Europe, El Saler championship course is set on a tapered stretch of windswept dunes and pinewoods which separates the Albufera Lagoon from the Mediterranean Sea.
Both the front and back nines first stretch through a stunning and lush grove with fairways lined by majestic pine tress and leading to big greens embedded in the dunes. There are a lot of blind greens feature to links courses and these are often huge, with slopes hard to read. The course is designed specifically to improve the quality of the game.
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