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Exclusive. Unique. Luxurious. Magical. The Private Airline Unforgettable. The World Golf tour. November 18th -10th December 2000. London • Bermuda • Mexico • Las Vegas • Monterey • Maui • Sydney Ayers Rock • Bali • Kathmandu • Agra • Dubai • London. The World Golf tour of a lifetime. This really is a unique opportunity. check-in procedures we save over two hours each time we fly and with over eleven destinations that’s To travel right around the world in an extra two days of holiday time. superb style and comfort on-board our own private Boeing 757-200 visiting If your partner is not a golfer there will always be superb destinations, playing golf at the something exciting for them to see and do. Indeed great courses of the world, staying at the way we’ve planned the tour is that it will be a the finest hotels and seeing unique and wonderful combination of great golf, superb wonderful sights. sightseeing with plenty of time for the other good things in life. When PrivatAir invited me to be the host of their The PrivatAir philosophy of setting a ‘standard superb 3 weeks holiday for golfers and their that all others will seek to follow’, is evident in partners, I was intrigued and delighted.The idea of everything they do. Regular clients, who include having your own VIP airliner to fly from one great Royalty and Heads of State, expect and demand the course or exotic location to the next, must surely The Private Airline very best in-flight service,professionalism and safety. be the dream of all golfers and travellers.Well now, PrivatAir is their first choice in luxury air travel. thanks to PrivatAir, that dream is a reality. It’s my kind of holiday and I hope it’s yours too. Before I go into detail, I’d like to set the scene: the I look forward to it with great anticipation and beauty of flying in our own private jet is that we pleasure. I expect to have excellent companionship decide the pace of the holiday – both in the air and with you all on the tour. Certainly as your host on the ground. and together with the highly professional flight Of course we have our itinerary but it means that and cabin staff of PrivatAir we will do our utmost the plane awaits our convenience, not vice versa as to ensure that it really is a uniquely enjoyable and with scheduled flights. In fact because there are no memorable holiday of a lifetime. Peter Alliss Our Golf venues. I have taken great care in my choice of golf A 6,512 yards par 71, it heightens the long game, courses so that they appeal equally to the scratch six par 4’s exceed 400 yards; there’s even a 238 yard golfer and the high handicapper.That is, everyone par 3. The 5th must surely be one of the world’s on the tour can enjoy their game and get a great most unforgettable holes. The expanse of deal of satisfaction from playing these top clubs, Mangrove Lake, lying low in front of the tee, famous venues and lesser known but very quickly sorts out the faint hearted. Will you have attractive courses and links. the strength and courage to carry the lake at its widest point or will you play the percentage game? The Port Royal and Mid Ocean. It makes one wonder what Churchill actually said Bermuda. to Eisenhower at their famous meeting in the Clubhouse. But win or lose, our lasting thrill will Port Royal Links sits in some of Bermuda’s most be to say ‘I played Mid Ocean.’ lush and beautiful landscape, overlooking the “Pok ta Pok is Sargasso sea. No matter where you look (or lie) Pok ta Pok. Cancun, Mexico. the genius of architect Robert Trent Jones is renowned for its beautiful tropical evident. Here a freeform green, there a gracefully Cancun on the tropical Yucatan Peninsula, lapped birds and the trade winding fairway skirting the coral cliffs. Port by the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, has winds, which make Royal is a popular and challenging course, but a superb 18 hole ocean side links called Pok ta Pok the golf entertaining watch out for the sand trapped greens and (which means stroke by stroke in Mayan). It was and challenging.” bunkered fairways, they’ll demand your full designed by Robert Trent Jones and bears his concentration. hallmark of carefully planned technical challenges, “Mid Ocean has one made even more enticing by the distraction of Once you have experienced Mid Ocean, you’ll or two of the most beautiful tropical birds and refreshing trade breezes. dramatic holes you’ll have no argument with experts who rank it The course artistically incorporates hundreds of find anywhere. among the top courses in the world. Cathedral like metres of dramatic shoreline and ancient Mayan I have fond in its awesome beauty with superb views of the treasures into a truly enjoyable experience. memories of playing Atlantic, Mid Ocean administers the classic test: Shell’s ‘Wonderful good shots are rewarded; bad shots are penalised. Its deep green fairways contrasting dramatically world of golf’ against Designed in 1924 by Charles Blair Macdonald it with the sparkling white sand traps and turquoise Tony Lema, and was revised in 1953 by Robert Trent Jones, whose Caribbean sea beyond will make this a relaxing finishing all square.” touch has made this a very exciting course to play. and enchanting day’s golf. Pok ta Pok Port Royal 9th Pok ta Pok The magnificent 18th hole at the Mid Ocean golf course The Royal Links Golf Club. Las Vegas a world famous hole. Heaven? No, just Pebble Beach Golf Links. Las Vegas is known around the world for its ability to amaze visitors. So it is only fitting that it should offer Since 1919, this exquisitely beautiful and uniquely one of the world’s most amazing golfing experiences. challenging course has thrilled golfers and It is called The Royal Links which opened in 1999. spectators alike. Pebble Beach has been the site of This 18 hole course was inspired by some of the golf’s most prestigious tournaments, including the most famous golf holes from links where the Open annual AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am and Championship has been played, and chosen for how the 1972, ‘82 and ‘92 US Open Championships. well they represent the spirit of the game. The Open returns for its historic 100th playing in the year 2000. In creating The Royal Links,the design team sought to provide players with shot value, challenges and Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, the Pebble Beach drama similar to those at the honoured golf courses. 6,799 yards, par 72 course hugs the rugged The famous British venues include: St Andrews; coastline, providing wide open vistas, cliffside Royal Lytham; and Prestwick Golf Club. In each fairways and sloping greens. case a spectacular hole particular to the course has It is a delightful challenge for all players. been chosen. From St Andrews, for example, it’s the “The Royal Links infamous “Road Hole.”The designers have gone to A pirate among gentlemen, Spyglass Hill is a has only been open great lengths to ensure that even the setting reflects demanding 6,889 yard par 72 adding another a year and it really the landscape of the British Isles. level of challenge and a hint of literary romance. is quite remarkable. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr., it was If the golf gets a bit The very well appointed clubhouse sits on a low named in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson, who ragged, you can hill and resembles a medieval castle complete with found inspiration for Treasure Island, when he marvel at the majestic clock tower.All this just 15 minutes from visited the Monterey Peninsula in the late 1800s. architecture of this the Las Vegas strip. We’ll play great golf here and 10th wonder have a lot of fun! Fairways wind up and down fabled Spyglass Hill, of the world.” punctuated by tall pines and lofty ocean views. Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. Players grapple with such holes as ‘Treasure Island’ California. where the green is actually an Island in the sand, ‘Long John Silver’ with a vicious double dogleg The sun is warm at your back, the ocean is crashing and ‘Black Dog’ an infamous par four - the most on the rocks below, and you’ve just sunk a putt on scurrilous hole of them all. Spyglass Hill The Royal Links, Las Vegas “Pebble Beach and Spyglass are both stunning.As Robert Louis Stevenson said, the Monterey Peninsular is the most fortuitous meeting place of the land and sea.” The 8th at Pebble Beach Pebble Beach. Feared and revered. This is the amazing 7th hole Wailea Emerald and Blue. Maui, Hawaii. For more than 25 years, golf enthusiasts have flocked to the island of Maui to play and bask in Wailea's legendary sunshine. Here at the heart of this internationally renowned 1,500 acre resort destination, lie the 54 perfectly manicured fairways of the Wailea Golf Club. Wailea has had numerous honours bestowed upon it for the quality of its courses, clubhouse and service. The newest of their three championship courses is the Emerald – where verdant fairways come alive with brilliant blooms, and every hole affords a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean and “At Wailea the trade Maui’s 10,000 ft dormant volcano Mt. Haleakala. winds blow, the golf is spectacular. It’s really Wailea’s Blue course was designed by Arthur Jack quite beautiful.” Snyder as part of the original master plan for the resort.