Course News & Blog

Ho Ho Ho & Merry Christmas Wishing you warm festive greetings from us all here at La Resina Golf & Country Club. Thank you for all of your support during 2023. It was a rocky start to the year, but it did fix some long standing problems for the golf course. However, once we got […]

Do the rain dance The hottest summer since 2016 has been a challenge for every golf course on the Costa Del Sol. Keeping grass happy in 35º and above day after day with no rain was no easy feat and things were looking grim at the end of August. Fortunately at that moment we had

The smell of fresh cut grass The smell of fresh cut grass in the morning is something only golfers can understand. It excites our senses and like Pavlov’s dogs, it prepares our brains for an activity we all enjoy.  That smell has been sewage for the past few months, as many of our neighbors can

Let the games begin Finally we can officially say WE ARE OPEN. It’s not at 100% yet, I would be honest and give it 80%, but the work we’ve put in recovering the grass over the last year can be noticed. There is still a list as long as my arm of jobs to do,

Sewage Works Underway Finally, we are happy to report, the Hidralia works have commenced. Even better news is that they will not go through the middle of the new 1st teeing ground as originally planned. Diverting instead through the rough areas will mean less of an effect on the golf course, less repairs and sooner

Delayed Sewage Works Our sincere apologies, but we have to report that the sewage works, as of writing, is yet to be started. The date has been delayed twice for reasons out of our control, however it is looking imminent, hopefully as soon as next week.  Currently there is an overflow of sewage running down

Merry Christmas from La Resina On behalf of everyone here at La Resina Golf & Country Club, we would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and all the best for the new year. Thank you again for the support and patience during 2022, hopefully the year that will go down in history as

Recent Work After the endless pig hunting (which is still in progress) we have planned for November: Seeding Rye Grass The bare patches visible on the course became noticeable towards late summer because the winter grass (mainly poa) died off in the heat. We have worked all spring/summer to get as much coverage as possible

A Tap In Away From Opening Throughout the sweltering heat of July we have been continuing the work necessary to get the golf course into a playable condition. The good news is the greens 1 & 2 which were turfed with the kind help of many of our members, have settled in well to their

New Ladies/Junior Tee Don’t be alarmed by the brown fairway – we refrained from watering for two weeks because we had to bring in dumper trucks to move all of the earth that had fallen down from the adjacent development. We used some of this earth to construct a new forward teeing ground (the sanded