A golfer's dream in Marbella

There’s that little bit of golfer inside all of us. Which is why SoBARNES is offering you the opportunity to take a private tour of this villa, bordering one of the most beautiful courses Spain has to offer and presented for sale by BARNES Marbella.

There’s nothing that hasn’t been said or written about golf, a sport perfectly summed up by these two aphorisms to which any golfer will relate:

Golf is a good walk spoiled - Mark Twain

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose - Winston Churchill

So what is this masochistic mechanism that drives normal human beings to spend their lives going after this blasted white ball? And it's been going on for 270 years now, since the Scots had the idea of systematising the game, the origins of which have become lost in the mists of time.

Homo golficus is a breed apart, capable of getting up at dawn on a Sunday, come rain, wind or hail, to try in vain to exert its dominance over a ball that is just waiting for any excuse to get lost in the stubborn undergrowth, over the course of 18 holes’ worth of misery. At the end of this losing battle, the golfer, having overcome their resentment and analysed their mistakes, has only one thing on their mind: starting all over again the next day. Or the following weekend. Eventually, they will start devoting entire holidays and ultimately their retirement to this pursuit. But there you go—passion rarely follows any sort of reason.

Once they have reached a certain level of wisdom, the golfer, while not claiming to master the secrets of their sport, at least understands that, on balance, it is better to play in the sun. That's where Spain comes in, and more specifically this villa bordering the Real Club de Golf Las Brisas in Marbella:

Here we are in Nueva Andalucia, at the heart of what is known as ‘Golf Valley’. This recently renovated 5,382 sq ft villa has the ultimate sales pitch when it comes to winning over any golfer: simply push the gate at the bottom of the garden and you’ll find yourself entering the inner sanctum that is the championship course of Las Brisas, designed 50 years ago by the undisputed master of his art, Robert Trent Jones Sr., and regularly voted one of the two or three most beautiful 18-hole courses in Spain ever since.

What more is there to say? Although we wouldn’t mind adding a few words about its extraordinary kitchen, its guest house (for fellow golfers, of course) on a sunken level below the swimming pool, its five suites and its terraces overlooking the course, all set against the backdrop of the sea.

This villa, with its delightful neo-colonial architecture is listed for sale fully furnished for €4.5 million by BARNES Marbella.

And because we have fallen under the spell of Las Brisas, here is the story of this extraordinary club, aptly summarised in this video edited for its aficionados in 2020:

See you on the first tee in the morning?

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Calle La Dorada 12, El Paraiso, 29688 Estepona ESPAGNE
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