N.I.F.: B-53576195
A spanish Golf Club (with norwegian ancestors)
Club de Golf "Peer Gynt" - Inaugurated 14th of March 2001
by and for norwegians living in Spania.
Member of La Asociación de Campos de Golf de la Costa Blanca,
Federación de Golf Comunidad Valenciana and Real Federación Española de Golf.
With a name like that for a golf club in Spain, “Peer Gynt”, it might be good idea that we introduce ourselves since we are one of the very few Spanish golf club among the various societies playing at the Costa Blanca. Those familiar with the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen will have no problem recognizing the name Peer Gynt.
Even though Henrik Ibsen wrote “Peer Gynt” in 1867 from his self imposed exile in Italy, the golf club baring that name had a more prosaic start back in the spring of 2001. It is actually named after a former restaurant in Alfaz del Pi, where some of the frequent visiting guests decided one evening that they better find some more to do than merely consuming what ever the restaurant had to offer. Thus, it was then decided upon to start with golf. And as time went by it is now a multinational Spanish golf club, even though the majority are norwegians, part of the Spanish Federation with approximately 400 members and, in the winter season we have an average of 450 - 500 players a month at Villaitana Wellness Golf & Business Resort.
The person Peer Gynt lived, according to the play, in a fantasy world. A world of fable if one likes. And, here we have an interesting point. Real the Faula which is “valenciano” where the word Real is the same as in English and, Faula means fable, therefore real fable, which is the world in which Peer Gynt fancied himself, in a world of fables. So when "Peer Gynt", i.e., the golf club, decided to move from el Plantio and up to Real de Faula, it all added up. A match made for cultural association as well for golf, which of course is culture by it’s own right.
Did Henrik Ibsen play golf?
We don’t know, but it sure sounds like it when the following comes out on stage:
“Wish to, want to, But to do it! No, that - - -“, say Peer Gynt somewhere. But isn’t that what all golfers are going through before every stroke?
Still it might be a little far fetched to draw the conclusion that Henrik Ibsen played golf. But then again…