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Region: Nueva Andalucía
Location: Málaga, Spain
Member since: 01-06-2007
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Address: Apdo. de Correos 147, 29660, Málaga, Spain
Phone: +34 952 810 875
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About Las Brisas Golf Club
The course includes numerous water obstacles: there are ten artificial lakes fed by two streams. The greens, the majority of which are raised, are amply protected by bunkers. The results of designer Robert Trent Jones’s efforts, which we continue to enjoy today, were truly notable and original, obtaining a difficult and attractive course.
He was also original in his choice of Bermuda grass for the fairways and Pentcross Bent on the greens, unusual species in the Europe of the sixties. The outcome of all this is a round which requires a precision game of golf.
Here at Las Brisas we can enjoy his work and imagination, in a place where are trees representing all the continents: species from Africa like the Cape Chestnut and the Spiny Acacias, the Indian Laurel and the Mysore Ficus from Asia, Chorisia Speciosa from America and the Green Ash from Mexico, and the Blackwood and the Whistling Pine from Australia, together with numerous species of palms and Mediterranean trees which coexist in great harmony, turning our course into a veritable botanic garden.
Few Golf Clubs can be as proud of their sporting history as Las Brisas. In 1970, the year in which it was officially inaugurated together with Puerto Banús, it hosted the International Spanish Open. In 1973 Las Brisas hosted the Amateur Spanish Open and the World Golf Cup, at which the best players of the time competed, with title being taken by the United States representatives Jack Niclaus and Johnny Miller, the latter establising the course´s record at 65 strokes. The Ladies’ record is held by the Spaniard Cristina Marsans with 67 strokes.
During the following ten years our Club was open to the public, serving the needs of tourism in the area and playing host to numerous guests, with 44,000 players visiting our course in 1975.
Apart from playing host to the best golfers in the world, our Club has been visited by numerous personalities and celebrities. In 1970 Prince Rainier, Princess Grace of Monaco and Karim Aga Khan attended the inauguration Gala at which a young Julio Iglesias sang. Liza Minelli and Bing Crosby were amongst the celebrities who have been at Las Brisas.
The last Head of State, General Franco, his wife and the then Prime Minister, D. Carlos Arias Navarro have also walked our fairways.
The relationship between the Spanish Royal Family and our Club is particularly noteworthy: Their Majesties the King and the Queen visited us when they were heirs to the throne. The father of the King, D. Juan de Borbón, the Count of Barcelona, played and visited us on numerous occasions, accepting the position of Honorary President of the Club for life and instituting the annual competition which bears his name. On the 23rd of May 1995 His Majesty the King, D. Juan Carlos I, granted Las Brisas the right to use the Royal prefix in recognition of its brilliant past and promising future.
Nowadays Las Brisas has around 1350 members from thirty different nationalities, and its’ private status allow only very few visitors green fees every day.
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