Awards

Golf club Ibar first Bulgarian member EGCOA

This September the European Golf Course Owners Association welcomed its first member in Bulgaria. Golfclub Ibar, the first Nicklaus design Golf Course in South-Eastern Europe, is a spacious, luxurious vacation place in the foothills of the Rila Mountain, just few miles away from one of the Bulgaria finest skiing resorts – Borovetz.

30.07.07

Golf Club Ibar and Rain Bird Gmbh sign contract for irrigation system. “Golf and Spa Complex Ibar 2” granted Certificate for First Class Investment!

Today, at Golf Club Ibar which is being constructed in Dolna Banya Municipality, a contract for the construction of the irrigation system was signed between Golf Club Ibar AD and Rain Bird Germany Gmbh.Rain Bird is one of the leading companies for building irrigation systems in the world and is represented in Bulgaria by DITEK OOD which will be executor of the assignment. One of the significant projects completed by Rain Bird is the irrigation system of the Versailles Palace gardens.At the same ceremony, the Executive Director of the Invest Bulgaria Agency, Mr. Stoyan Stalev, handed to the Mayor of Dolna Banya, Mr. Vassil Hristov, a Certificate for Investment “First Class” for the project to construct a second golf course on the territory of Dolna Banya Municipality. The project “Golf & Spa Complex Ibar 2” includes a golf course with 18 holes and two options for design: One option is a championship style 18-hole golf course personally designed, supervised and signed by the legend in world golf and player number one of XX century, Jack Nicklaus. The other option is a Bear’s Best, being 18 personally selected by Jack Nicklaus par 3 holes, which replicate already existing famous holes from the Nicklaus courses around the world. There will be around 300 detached houses with approximately 45 000 sq.m. constructed on the territory of “Golf and SPA Complex Ibar 2”. It is expected that a five-star hotel with a SPA centre will be built onsite and its management will be assigned to a world class hotel chain with proved experience. The project will be realised within 4 years.

07.06.07

Golf Club Ibar- Ranked World Best, Most Affordable Golf Resort By Place In The Sun Magazine!

Golf Club Ibar is NUMBER ONE investment by the fairway in the golf supplement of Place in the Sun Magazine from July 2007.

THE BEST property money can buy at a PGA golf course is the 14,300 studio apartment available at Ibar. The development is near the Rila Mountain, very close to the ski resort of Borovets and features an 18-hole, 72-par golf course by Nicklaus Design plus a thermal spring Spa centre. There are high hopes for Borovets too, where millions of euros are being channelled to turn it into “Super Borovets”, which will include 3 to 5 other golf courses in a radius of 50 km. The plan is that there will be contracts between the golf clubs allowing members to play at any one of them.

19.01.07

Success Stories: Golf Club Ibar featured in “A Place in the Sun” Magazine

Bulgaria was ranked third in the Top 20 list of the world’s most popular places to buy in the February issue of “A Place in the Sun” magazine. In the Bulgarian section of the magazine, there is a feature about Mark and Wendy Davis who have bought a flat within the Ephrosina apartment villa in Golf Club Ibar. The couple made 18,800 in just one year for their two-bedroom apartment.

04.07.06

First Class Investor Certificate Ceremony

On July 3rd, 2006, the Executive Director of the State Agency for Investments Mr. Stoyan Stalev (former Minister of foreign affairs and Ambassador of Bulgaria in Germany and Turkey) presented to the owners of Golf Club Ibar AD Mr. Ilia Lazarov, Mr. Kiril Nedev and the Dolna banya Municipality represented by Mrs. Marinika Yakova, Deputy Mayor, a First Class Investor Certificate for the investment project “Golf Club Ibar”. The project was estimated by the State representative as an extremely important for the regional development and for the investment climate in the Dolna Banya Municipality. Mr. Nedev thanked to the representatives of the State and the Municipality for the very good cooperation in the framework of the public-private partnership.