Although the island?s tropical feel and luxury resorts make it a fine place to ?relax and enjoy? Mike Green Red Wings Jersey , some of the courses are very good indeed. Here?s my suggested list of must play courses when on a golf holiday in Mauritius?

The Legend

Part of the Belle Mare Plage resort, The Legend is perfect for holiday golf ? well maintained and with several razor sharp teeth, you need to drive well and take the right club to the smallish greens. And if you lose a couple of balls, so what?You?re in Mauritius and the sun is shining. Plus, there?s good food and cold beer in the thatched roof club house. With its sister course and the super hotel, this is arguable the No.1 golf resort in the country.

The Links

A more ?Championship? design than The Legend, The Links is a fine course. Designed by Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas, you can taken your driver on most holes but that usually doesn?t win you much?.This is a thinkers course with raised and small greens and craftily placed trees and water hazards.

Golf du Chateau

Golf du Chateau offers fantastic Pacific Ocean views and a fine variety of challenges. It?s a clever layout that warms you up and gets you going before hitting you hard around the turn and towards the end. Set in 100 hectares of lush parkland and adjacent to the 1500 hectare Bel Ombre Nature Reserve, Golf du Chateau was the first really seriousmodern design course on the island and has won many admirers.

Tamarina Golf

With such a beautiful backdrop, any course on Mauritius is going to be enjoyable but the designers have neither rested on their laurels nor Mother Nature. Tamarina is another top quality course with golfers needing to draw and fade to get the right angle into the large greens. The bunkers are plentiful and very large and the mature woodland provides shade from the sun and, unfortunately, access to the greens if you?re not on song! Another beautiful course in paradise and a splendid example of golf in Mauritius.

Le Touessrok

I?ve been saving the most exciting till last ? Le Touessrok Ile aux Cerfs is one of the Top 10 most glamorous courses in the world. You take a private launch to the island where only the course and its sumptuous clubhouse are, you freshen up with cool towels and maybe a rum cocktail and then you tackle the Bernhard Langer designed gem. It?s very hard, in fact it?s too hard but who cares! Take lots of balls and a camera and enjoy. A brilliant golf course but not one to play regularly as it?s neither classic golf or good for your ego.

And one for the road?Hot off the press is the Ernie Els designed course at Four Seasons. Four Seasons don?t do things by half and Ernie is a first class designer. I haven?t played it yet but a good friend (and fine professional golfer) thinks this course is the new ?hot one? on what is hot, hot, hot island for great golf.

If you?ve previously dismissed Mauritius golf, think again. It?s the perfect excuse to please the family whilst you play your favourite sport on some sensational courses.

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Wouldn't it be nice if finally you could know the truth as to why you find it impossible to shed and then keep off that excess weight?? It does seem odd doesn't it that there are endless diets and exercise regimes out there, each one supposedly to be better than the rest, and an enormous and ever increasing number of pharmaceutical weight loss drugs, and still obesity is a bigger problem in the western world than ever before in history. And of course where obesity is, illness and chronic degenerative disease follow.

It's not like we haven't been told that we need to count those calories, adhere to diets, take those appetite suppressants, spend more time in the gym, increase those proteins and cut out those nasty carbohydrates, grow your own food organically, raise some grass fed cattle, milk your own cow, or perhaps if that is too tricky, become a vegan, take those vitamins and powders, and drink gallons of water, that is of course if it is purified, or distilled, or energised or alkalised or fresh from the Hunza region or whatever else the latest damn fad is. Oh, and don't forget, it is imperative that you don't stress out because stress will make you fat and sick too! Are you beginning to see the irony here?

Now it has occurred to me, and probably more than a few others as well, that if all of these things were on their own, or in combination, the definitive answer to our problems there wouldn't still be a 40% rate of obesity in America. Problems such as childhood diabetes that was never even heard of in times past, most certainly wouldn't be in almost epidemic proportions in the western world today, and chronic diseases that can, and all too often do, mean a death sentence for us would be a distant nightmarish memory. Am I right? Surely, we would simply follow the advice that is dished out to us so generously, and all would be well. Perhaps, now that we are all totally exhausted with the well meaning advice, we just might need to change focus. What are we overlooking that is a major contributing fac.