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Buenos Aires
Travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The world capital of Polo,
the center of South America in golf…
Were you looking for elite sports?
Discover them in the most splendid
natural settings!
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Golf & Polo. Polo & Golf. Both are national sports, surrounded by nature.

These sports came with the English colonists and now are one of the main attractions for national as well as international tourism.

Although the tournaments carried out in the world are numerous, the most important contests as regards handicap take place in Argentina. 

With the first spring airs, you can enjoy nice afternoons in the sun and exciting tournaments, sharing the stand with important show business and politics figures.

Both sports are a meeting point for the world jet set. And to be entertained during the tournament and keep enjoying at night, the city offers big and modern shopping malls, theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, pubs, bars, night clubs, business and cultural centers, important museums and a first class hotel offer.
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Buenos Aires
Nowadays, Golf is practiced in numerous clubs of Buenos Aires province and in many other provinces of the country.

The majority of the golf activity takes place in the suburbs, in country club areas where the club houses are what used to be the mansions of farms, architectural works worth of admiration. Many country clubs have their own and exclusive golf course.

You can also enjoy this exciting sport in the courses where the Driving Ranges are. The most known are the ones located in Costanera Avenue, with a view to the river and near the airport.

The Driving of the Golf Argentinean Association (Asociación Argentina de Golf) is considered as one of the best of South America.

On the other hand, Polo has a strong presence throughout Buenos Aires province with professional fields that are strategically located.

Many tournaments and high-level exhibitions take place in a context thought exclusively for the fans of this sport.

Maximum pleasure combined with the best games in the sun and smooth breezes as the spring opens the polo season in Buenos Aires.

Coronel Suárez
Located at 311 miles from Buenos Aires city, Coronel Suarez is the world capital of Polo.

Some of the best polo players came from this city and the tourists that visit this place are offered various activities related to this sport.

Excellent conditions all luxury and comfort in a country environment and native gauchos willing to serve you and show with pride the Argentinean traditions.

Farms with varied characteristics offer activities taking place every day of the week; the tourist can train, learn or improve their performance.

The season starts in November up to the end of March.

Open Door
At a 45 minutes-drive from Buenos Aires city, you get to a perfect place to relaxation, sports, business, tourism and pleasure.

Open Door has an intense activity during all the season. It counts with more than 30 clubs and 100 polo fields. Since the team “La Aguada”, made up by the brothers Eduardo, Miguel, Javier and Ignacio Novillo Astrada, won the Campeonato Argentino Abierto 2003 (Polo Open Championship), Open Door is considered the new Mecca of the world of Polo.

The short distance that separates Open Door from the capital city allows for a fascinating and special stay.

You can play polo during the day, go to a game of the “Abierto de Palermo” (Palermo Open) in the afternoon and enjoy the restaurants and night life of Buenos Aires at night, combining the best of the traditional country life of the Argentinean pampa with the pleasures of one of the most exciting cities of Latin America.

Pilar
At only 30 minutes from the capital city, in one of the top suburbs of Buenos Aires, you will find a landscape with a mixture of green spaces and urban life.

There you will spend nice and pacific moments in the open air forgetting about the noise of the city and at the same time enjoying the benefits of a nice shopping mall, food courts, ice-cream parlors and movie theaters as close as tempting for the tourist fond of sports and consumption. You can rent for the season gorgeous houses in the private country clubs that open their doors to show their exclusive installations and facilities or opt for wonderful five-star hotels.

In the Polo clubs you can have a drive in carriages, go on horse-rides and the most daring ones can have classes using the mallet or on horse training.

As regards Golf, Pilar has one of the best private housing developments of the country that combines close neighborhoods, a golf club unique in the world, sport sectors and an imposing club house intended for different social, cultural and gastronomic activities.

You can live intense satisfactions: a golf outing or a Polo or tennis afternoon, a ride in bike or a nice neighbors meeting, a concert or a painting exhibition, a wine tasting or a chefs meeting, have breakfast and lunch under the warm rays of the sun and surrounded by the neat and harmonious vegetation, decorated by the locals.

The short distance between Pilar and Buenos Aires allows the visitor to dance tango at night in San Telmo and in the morning wake up with the singing of the birds in the middle of the country.

Cañuelas
Located at 45 minutes from the city center of Buenos Aires by highway, Cañuelas offers an excellent quality of polo fields.  

Distinguished farms invite their guests to enjoy the best installations for an exciting stay from morning to dusk. The most entertaining activities usually end with an abundant gourmet dinner and walks under the stars.

For the lovers of night life, Cañuelas is a good option, as it is located at 45 minutes from the capital city and its terrific night life.

So you can enjoy a good day of polo and at night dance tango in La Boca, have dinner in the seaside drive facing the river, go to a theater play, a concert or a fancy night club, have dinner in the exclusive Puerto Madero restaurants, go to the floating casino or to the cultural Palermo neighborhood, among other options.

Pinamar
The most sophisticated tourist city of the Argentinean Atlantic coast. It is situated at 211 miles from the capital city and it is surrounded by what nature and the tenacity of its pioneers have managed to forge: dunes, green woods and the sea framing like a piece of art the golf courses and polo fields, simply a paradise.

The beauty of the place is expressed in its wide beaches with sand dunes as well as in its tree-lined streets and the rustic style constructions in the midst of pine woods, as in a fairytale.

Besides golf and polo, you can do nautical activities such as windsurf, jet ski, wakeboard, boat trips and even trolling.

During summer, you can go to different shows in the sand, among them the renowned Beach Polo.

In the hot sands of the beach, famous players face each other giving a fascinating show.

The important private golf center allows free access to all the golf players of the country and from abroad that would like to start playing the sport. It counts with professional trainers and a Driving Range to practice.

And during the nights, luxurious hotels, Casinos, movie theaters, bars, tempting and varied restaurants and parties in the beach until dawn will make your stay in this place an unforgettable experience.

Cariló
At few kilometers from Pinamar, and for the lovers of the ocean and Golf, there exists a place that seems to be inspired in a fairytale.

The sea, the pines, the sand…all this makes the amateur or professional sportsman enjoy the practice of Golf in harmony with nature.

The ones who want to enjoy in the face of the sun and sea will see the wide beaches that this magical place offers full of elves, charming woods and dunes to make long walks, horse rides, or rides in jeeps or four tracks.

Cariló is also known as “The green beach of Argentina” and charms the golf lovers, a sport that has been growing fast in the last years. For the fans of this sport, Cariló is, undoubtedly, a place to bear in mind.

Sierra de la Ventana
The Barrio Parque Golf (a neighborhood) is situated in Sierra de la Ventana. It’s a residential area where the most sophisticated golf camp of the area is located.

The hills frame this spectacular course and you get the feeling that you are playing in an earthly Garden of Eden unique worldwide.

Undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful golf courses of the country. Besides, the place counts with a wide variety of alternatives as regards accommodation: from five star hotels, luxurious spas and elegant and comfortable log cabins merging with the landscape.

It also counts with different activities for all the family: trout hatcheries where you can hire a guided visit, buy regional products, visit the local zoo, go on fishing trips, museums, stalls and farms that open their doors to receive the tourist and offer the best with a wide traditional gastronomic offer.

Golf stands out in Sierra de La Ventana because it offers a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains and puts up the tourist with the best quality, luxury, comfort, tradition and friendliness.

Tandil
Hidden in the hills, it is a privileged place; there is a golf complex that serves as the perfect excuse to walk in the place that originates from a valley between two ravines that used to form the mountains.

The course’s style is English American, with movement in its fairways as well as in its greens.

Its farms are cozy and welcoming, ready to give maximum pleasure to the tourist. It also counts with hotels and log cabins fully equipped in a fusion of a fairytale and modernity.

The traveler will feel that he’s living in an elf’s house with unimagined luxuries. Tandil offers a wide variety of recreational activities such as rappel, bicycle tourism, trekking, photographic safaris or travel in lift chairs during the day or at night to admire the magnificence of the architecture of the city or the beauty of its hills from the top. Once a year “Tandil Cine” takes place, which is an independent festival with the best of the movies production at the local as well as the international level.

For the exquisite palate, Tandil counts with a wide gastronomic offer that combines our native tastes with an original European touch.

If you want to spend your holidays or practice Golf, here you will feel immersed in a peaceful and harmonious environment, with sweet tastes and surrounded by green, birds and nature, offering an unrivalled stay.

Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata city cultivates the passion for golf and counts today with four clubs and five courses at an international level, approved by the Argentinean Association of Golf, available all the year for the practice of players with or without handicap.

Mar del Plata’s golf courses offer the practice facing the sea, something unique and worth to live.

It hosts the first golf course built in the country, one of the most traditional in its rank.

Its links, with a view to the Atlantic Ocean and the courting of the sea: wild, noisy and with a great swell creating a unique symphony that escorts the player during the practice.

Mar del Plata hosts numerous hotels, movie theaters, theaters and top level casinos.

Besides, Mar del Plata is the city of the stars.

In summer, it has an intense activity as regards theater plays, cultural activities, gastronomy specialized in seafood, pasta and pizza.  

Night clubs, pubs, bars and shopping malls where you will buy the best leather and wool products.

Mar del Plata is unique: beach, theater, golf, a trio for the lovers of the good life and sport. Don’t miss it!


 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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