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Cyprus Golf

Cyprus is becoming increasingly popular for golfing holidays. There are four excellent golf courses on Cyprus, plus another in development, all of them around the popular tourist areas of Paphos and Larnaca. They are markedly different in aspect and each enjoys an excellent variety of challenging holes and beautiful views.

Paphos is the closest major resort to the golf courses, which are within approximately 15 minutedrive. Cyprus Ideal offers a great variety of properties to suite all tastes and pockets. In order to encourage investors to develop high quality golf courses in privately owned land, the existing policy and criteria relating to the development allowed and the respective conditions for approval are under review. Regarding the creation of three golf courses on government land (at Ayia Napa, Oroklini, Pentakomo) alternative methods for the leasing of the respective state-owned/forest plots are under consideration, with a view to securing the viability of the projects as well as the interest of the investors.

The Secret Valley Golf Club is probably the most prestigious golf course in Cyprus, located in the famous area of Petra tou Romiou, the birthplace of Aphrodite, 18km east of Paphos and 49km west of Limassol. Opened in 1996, the Secret Valley golf course, designed by Iacovos Iacovou. The golf course measures 5,904m and plays to a par 71, and players without a handicap certificate can play after noon on request, depending on availability.

The Aphrodite Hills Golf Club is located near Paphos in Cyprus, overlooking the Mediterranean, taking its name from the birthplace of Aphrodite, which it overlooks. Aphrodite Hills has been described as an award winning 18 hole championship golf course and academy.

The Tsada Golf Club can lay claim to being the first grass golf course built in Cyprus. Completed in 1994, it is located 20 minutes from Paphos and is elevated 550m above sea level, ensuring a calming cool breeze during the warm summer months.

The Vikla Golf and Country Club was founded in 1992, designed by Robin Houry. It is situated near the village of Vikla in Cyprus, close to Larnaca and a 20km drive from Limassol. For €34 you can play all day, and this price includes club hire, balls, tees and water.

In addition to the other wonderful courses on Cyprus, a further golf course is planned at Tersefanou, which is a village just outside Larnaca.

Scheduled for completion in 2010, the golf course at Tersefanou Golf & Country Club is expected to be PGA approved and will boast a five-star hotel and spa facilities. There will also be luxury villas and apartments built on and around the course.

Since the announcement of the Tersefanou golf course, several new developments have sprung up around Tersefanouand the area of the golf course. This has also had an effect on other villages in the locality, such as Kiti, Mazatosand Pavolia, which are all seeing an increase in the building of villas and apartments to accommodate the expected influx of golfers and holiday makers to Cyprus.

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