Golf Greece

On December 7th, 2006, Jack Nicklaus sat in the bed of a Mitsubishi pickup truck in Kilada, surveying the landscape that mirrored the fluorescent blueprints spread out on the truck’s hood: his first Signature Golf Course in Greece.

In the summer of 2026, he might as well be cutting the ribbon in the course inauguration. What took 20 years?

Find out in our latest Journal entry on www.golfgreece.com/journal/kilada-story

The TV broadcast of the 152nd Open transmitted rainy and windswept conditions from Royal Troon. But in Athens, temperatures were persistently exceeding 38 degrees. It was during the afternoon when a cooling breeze came to rescue and made conditions delightful. Golf Greece couldn’t think of a better way to spend that evening, than to project the Duels back to back on a LED wall in the clubhouse garden of Glyfada Golf Course, with the precious company of friends and fellow golfers who hadn’t yet left for summer vacations.

When the footage (kindly provided by R&A Films and North Ridge Films) started rolling, great debates emerged: The Duel In The Sun or The Duel of the ‘Sons? Turnberry or Troon? Mustard sweaters, hard-collared shirts, checkered pants and woods made of actual wood or post-2000 stripe shows and all-black outfits? Equally important: pizza with cocktails during the first battle and burgers with beer during the second, or inversely?

Two golfing battles you can never put your finger on, on a night that rolled as smooth as thin plumes from ci**rs over some tables dispersed in the night air. A memory to keep handy for cold winter pillows.

Following Tiger in sleepwalk mode until his birdie on No.3 sets the Masters gallery on fire.
Check our full feature on The Masters on www.golfgreece.com/journal/the-masters

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Golf Greece took off to Augusta to attend its first Masters a month ago, has been struggling to sort reality from fantasy ever since. Proactively, a tiny notebook was in the back-pocket, the pencil hieroglyphs of which have just been decoded.

Read all about it in our latest journal entry on www.golfgreece.com/journal/the-masters

© Ben Jared/ PGA TOUR via Getty Images/ Ideal Image

Konstantinos Kotsovos looks at the hole and sees a barrel. Golf Greece’s instructional section will be inaugurated with a putting clinic from .putting. Stay tuned for the release.

A clubhouse view to elevate the excitement contained in a humble Wednesday morning.

If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be one year older when you do. The time to get addicted is now. Happy New Year everyone.

In our latest journal entry in golfgreece.com/journal, we shed light into a tradition of Royal Liverpool Golf Club that sparked the idea for Augusta’s green jacket and was adopted by our Organizing Committee in the 1979 World Cup award ceremony that was held in Athens.

Chairman A. Manouilidis, Vice President H. Capuano, D. Bailas and T. Aperghis along with the esteemed director of Glyfada Golf Course, M. Benakis. were dressed in red jackets as they delivered the trophy to Hale Irwin and John Mahaffey.

Recently, we were entrusted to bring the very coat of Mr. Benakis out of its closet, for yet another photograph 45 years later than the original. The location could only be the golf course he so dearly loved and cared with exemplary devotion.

Course playing conditions in Spring are a mirror of the turf maintenance routine that was applied in Fall.

Punching greens to crank oxygen supply to soil sublayers, spraying gypsum to flush the accumulated salts from the irrigation season and topdressing with sand to improve rootzone soil physical properties. Costa Navarino greenkeeping team is putting in the required effort, so that your springtime putting strokes roll smooth as a whistle.

Choosing a vintage cruise over of a modern ride this weekend.

Not sure if had spotted imperfections on the flagstick paint job, but he decided in favor of a good sandblasting anyhow.

Flags do not speak, but seemed to establish some kind of communication with that particular one.
A few seconds later he would proceed to make the birdie putt from 9m on the first hole of The Dunes Course during Aegean Messinia ProAm 2023.