Leadbetter Academy to Open at La Manga Club

The world-renowned Leadbetter Academy is set to open in January 2014 at the La Manga Club – further enhancing the resort’s status as one of the top coaching facilities in Europe.

With nearly 30 academies worldwide the Leadbetter Golf Academy offers the very finest learning and practice facilities and the selection of the Murcia resort as its newest base, which will be the only Leadbetter Golf Academy on mainland Spain, is testament to the resurgent La Manga Club.

Director of Golf Gary Silcock, who has previously worked at some of the sport’s most prestigious venues, including St Andrews’ Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa, PGA National Ireland, and The Belfry, believes the choice of La Manga Club as home to The Leadbetter Golf Academy’s only mainland Spanish base is further recognition of the outstanding golf facilities on offer there.

He said: “We are delighted to have been chosen as the new home for The Leadbetter Golf Academy’s only venue in mainland Spain. Such patronage confirms that, as well as having the best offering for holiday golfers in Spain, La Manga Club is also, undisputedly, the top choice for golf coaching and tuition – enhancing its overall reputation as the destination of choice for top amateurs and professionals in many sports.”

The world’s number one golf instructor and coach to countless PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA Tour and Champions Tour players, David Leadbetter – and the academy he founded – is known across the globe for innovative and creative teaching techniques.

His coaching has spanned three decades and he has often been recognised as the “man who invented the golf instruction industry”. During the past 30 years, The Leadbetter Golf Academy tour players have amassed more than a dozen major championship titles and in excess of 100 individual worldwide tournament victories.

Silcock added: “The impending opening of The Leadbetter Golf Academy heralds further significant investment into state-of-the-art practice facilities here at La Manga Club and ensures the resort is truly in a class of its own in terms of sports coaching facilities, with world-class amenities, not just in golf, but also in tennis, football, rugby, cricket and many other sports.”

La Manga Club’s golf facilities already includes three 18-hole championship courses  and as well as golf, the resort boasts unrivalled facilities as a sports and leisure destination including a 28-court tennis centre, eight full-size professional sports pitches – suitable for football, rugby and cricket – and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. Dozens of top professional sports teams use the resort every year and it also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses and more than 20 bars and restaurants.

For further details about La Manga Club visit www.lamangaclub.com.

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