Tips To Improve Your Game From Las Playitas Golf Course Professional

Murdo McCorquodale is the Professional at Las Playitas Golf Course, close to Gran Tarajal on Fuerteventura and has supplied the following tip to help you improve your Game.

I thought I would touch on something to start that might surprise some of my fellow golfers out there; on the topic of golf equipment.
It’s a known fact that almost every club golfer and many pros use clubs that are not suited to their game. So much research has been done into the swing and into club technology yet the average handicap has remained almost exactly where it was in 1980.
Modern clubs are marketed with slogans like ‘Hit it longer than ever’, ‘biggest ever sweet spot’, ‘anti-slice’ etc and then they become illegal!!
The average 7 iron in 1980 had 38 degrees of loft but that would now be equivalent to an 8 iron in our bag today so it’s just trickery from the big brands to outdo one another in an aggressive market. Drivers have to be longer in length, have bigger heads and steeper face angles to hit the ball further – RUBBISH!! You would all (handicap 5 and above) benefit from a 12 or 13 degree driver with a 43 inch shaft if you would like straighter and longer shots.
Fairway woods nowadays have bigger heads and longer shafts which make ball control from tight fairways extremely complicated for Joe Punter.
Putters sold on shop shelves are also in general far too long for the job required, again short means control and on the greens we’re looking for the perfect stroke with a tool that must be just right for the job. Get club fitted to suit you.
On a positive note one of the greatest modern discoveries to golf has to be the rescue/hybrid club which everyone seems to have these days and now they are being produced at iron length which shows maybe at last the Big Brand names are seeing sense.

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Las Playitas Golf Course, Fuerteventura Canary Islands

The new 18 hole Playitas Golf course on the Canarian Island of Fuerteventura has been designed by the popular Scottish golf course architect John Chilver Stainer whose philosophy was to create a fair but challenging course that would appeal to all levels of golfer.

The course has been shaped beautifully utilising the natural hills and valleys in contrast with the surrounding rugged, volcanic mountains and sea views can be enjoyed from almost every hole.

Perhaps the most memorable feature of the course has to be the shaping of the greens which require precision with approach shots, the many plateaus and undulations combined with fast bent grass greens can cost even the best of player to suffer those dreaded three putts.

Playitas Golf has four ponds and many waterways which come into play on all but five of the holes so be prepared to stock up on balls in the proshop before you start!!
Our signature hole is the Par 3 15th which at 169m with water short and right of the green and the prevailing wind coming from the left requires a committed and well executed shot.

By modern standards the course is relatively short with a Par 67 of 4824m but an exciting mixture of eight Par 3’s, seven Par 4’s and three Par 5’s make it a really enjoyable game of golf which will require every club in the bag. Plans are already in place to construct three further holes in the near future which will increase the Par to 70/71.

We can not forget that Playitas Golf has a PGA Academy, leaded by professional Murdo Mc. Corquodale who is available to give lessons in various languages.
It is an ideal environment for beginners to learn the basic aspects of the game, or the more experienced player to train and improve their skills.

More information on Las Playitas Golf course can be found on BuyIn Fuerteventura and Golf Fuerteventura Along with details on property for sale on Canary Island golf courses.