Grupo Mayan Golf Lovers

When you think of a golf outing, sunshine, a cool breeze, and a light windbreaker are the natural thoughts. Well Corba, a Nichalus Design course in Acapulco is taking a new stance: Night Golf. This Grupo Mayan course brought in florescent lights, LED lights, and glow in the dark golf balls to light up the course.

For the third year in a row, the Corba golf course will host the Night Tournament during the Easter season. Over 100 people will tee off at 10:00 pm for their chance at great prizes, a great experience, and quality time with friends or family. Adults and kids alike come out to take on the challenge. It has been a great event for families and friends visiting the Grupo Mayan resort.

The competitors will split up evenly and play either the front nine or the back nine holes. Due to the demand and the battery life of the portable lights, the tournament can only handle 9 holes. The players on the front nine and the players on the back nine play for evenly divided prizes ranging from free services at the Brio Spa, free rounds of golf, and other Grupo Mayan luxuries. While the scorecards are being counted, each player will have a shot at winning the Grupo Mayan grand prize. Hitting one shot from the number 10 tee box to the adjacent number 18 green, the closest ball to the pin will win an Audi car. You do not want to miss an opportunity like this at the Grupo Mayan resorts.

Come to the Mayan resorts to attempt your first round of night golf!

Samuel Ryder was the founding father of the Ryder Cup, which is awarded every two years in events called the ìRyder Cup Matches” amongst teams from Europe and United States. PGA of America and the PGA European Tour both rule and govern the competition, say the Grupo Mayan experts in this sport. The venue of the competition alternates between golf courses in the United States and Europe.

The competition began in 1926 as an exhibition match between a team of American professional golfers against one from the British PGA on the East Course, Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, UK. The American team maintained dominance of the competition after the second world war, which inevitably led to the expansion of the British & Irish team to include continental Europe in the late 1970s. This revolution, say the Grupo Mayan experts, led to the emergence and success of a new generation of Spanish golfers. Severiano Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido became the first Spaniards to play in the Ryder Cup.

Since 1979, Europe has won the cup seven times retaining the cup once while the Americans have won a total of seven times.

The Ryder Cup Matches involve players selected from two teams of twelve.

The competition consists of 12 singles matches, eight fourball matches and eight foursomes matches.

A team wins a hole by completing the hole with the fewest shots, say the Grupo Mayan experts. Standard match play competition between two golfers is a singles match.

The competitions take place over 28 matches. The fourball matches take place on Fridays. The singles matches occur on Sundays when the all respective team members play. On Fridays not all team members play. The Friday schedule is usually repeated on Saturday. Eight members, say the Grupo Mayan experts, are selected by their respective captains for each of the four rounds of play. The victorious team is determined by total cumulative points.

The defending champion team needs only half the total marks or points to retain the cup while opposing teams need to win the competition in an outright manner.

The Ryder cup rules and regulations have changed over the years, say the Grupo Mayan golf professionals. Since the competition began in 1927 through 1959, the competition was a two day event but this format has continued to change over the years.

Foursomes or alternate shot formats were used in the preliminary stages of the competition since 1981 until 1997 at Valderrama, say the Grupo Mayan experts. European captain Seve Ballesteros opened with better ball. The alternate shot was resumed back in the game in 1999 at Brookline by U.S. captain Ben Crenshaw. The foursome format was returned in 2008.