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Arabella Golf Club – One of South Africa's Top Courses

Cape Town is one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and is South Africa’s most popular tourist destination. With many world class golf courses to choose from, golfers worldwide have discovered that Cape Town is a bit of a golfers paradise. As Cape Town also includes many other tourist attractions besides its golf courses it is truly a top destination for golfing holidays. The favorable South African Rand exchange rate is also an attraction for tourists coming from Europe or North America. If one converts South African Rands to dollars or euros, the cost of accommodation, restaurants and golf green fees is just a fraction of the equivalent cost in the United States or Europe.

There is quite a selection of Cape Town golf courses as well as courses near to Cape Town to choose from. Golf Digest has ranked 15 of these courses in South Africa’s top 100 courses. This includes the internationally renowned Arabella Golf Club and Resort which is one hour’s drive from Cape Town. This championship course is arguably the best course in the Western Cape, and with good reason. This golf course has

The PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando on Jan. 2009 was an avalanche of  high-tech gears in all categories.

“It’s the single most important date of the year – apart from my wedding anniversary, of course,”quipped the Californian club pro in the next door bay as he put the new Mizuno MX-700 driver through its paces. He was no doubt speaking for most of the 5,000 industry guests at the essential Demo Day that kicks off the annual PGA Merchandise Show, held at the end of January in Orlando, in style.

The action unfolds on a vast driving range as club pros and media are invited to try out the latest golf clubs and balls from over 50 leading companies; and judge on what to stock in their pro shop (or write in their magazine) for the new season. It was only 10 amand already the latest offerings from Mizuno (their first evermatched range of  golf drivers, fairway woods and hybrids) were on the shortlist on the basis of their sound, technology, looks and performance.

Mizuno R&DManager, David Llewellyn was on hand to explain the ‘hotmetal’ face construction “designed with a grain structure that allows flexibility in the sole-to-crown plane – traditionally themost rigid area that