In most of the top 10 golf destinations worldwide, the industry partners (golf courses, car rental, infrastructure, etc) are focused on delivering a good service to the international golfer, ready and prepared to receive your e-mail or phone call asking for tee-times. They have websites, booking lines, and capable personnel waiting for your call. They speak fluent English and manage a tee-time schedule with one year in advance. You can even take a taxi to the golf courses.

In Argentina it is quite the opposite. The best golf courses in Buenos Aires are private clubs or private country clubs, run and ruled by their members. Most of them don’t even have website or a booking hotline, and hardly any English speaking assistance.

Although we may ask the starter for a special permission if the guest requires playing extra holes, technically the green fee is only for 18 holes. And you should pay an extra green fee if you want to play two rounds in the same days.

NO, once you teed off, if you decide to suspend the round no matter why, you loose the green fee. The clubs don’t offer refund, and not even if it is for heavy rain or electric storm.

If are considering renting a car with GPS, the device may suggest you the most direct way, which normally is not the correct one. Buenos Aires, like many other cosmopolitan cities, has very secure places and many other unsecure. If you miss the correct way, you may appear in risky places where it is not recommendable to get lost.

6 of the top 25 courses  can be played with  buggie: Buenos Aires GC, Nordelta GC, Pilar GC (with GPS), PIlará GC, Cañuelas GC and San Eliseo GC. In the rest of the courses you need to play walking, with trolley/pull cart or taking a caddy.

Most of the TOP 15 courses in Buenos Aires were established between 1890 and 1935. They are mainly flat parkland courses and were not originally designed including cart path. This developed the habit of playing golf walking.