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Is your trip up to par?
COWES, Isle of Wight (CNN) -- While some travellers opt for the soft approach and recline in a jacuzzi, others release their competitive streak. Fine-tuning the tennis backhand, learning how to tack on a yacht or reducing their golf handicap are all ways business people are playing hard as they travel. The United Kingdom Sailing Academy attracts business people to their courses in Cowes, Isle of Wight, and Barbados. "We find a lot of professional people race as an activity and we just offer a two-week racing course to hone those skills, get them across the finish line first," said senior instructor Jon Ely. "It's a great recreational activity, it's something they can do themselves and just get away for a weekend or a short period." Tennis coach Nick Bolletteri founded his U.S. tennis academies 30 years ago, but they have just opened to corporate clients. "A person gives up three or four days of their life, or of their business. They come here for business. They don't want to come here and be thrown all around," said Bolletteri. "They want to have fun but they also want to have some structure They want to be able to leave and say: 'Hey, I learned this at that academy.'" For golfers, a round at the Colin Montgomerie Links Academy at Westin Turnburry Resort, Scotland, could help lower a handicap. With 25.4 million golfers in the U.S and 12.9 million in Japan, according to the National Golf Foundation, a ready market exists for the academy. Senior teaching professional Tony Marshall says: "Everyone has a way of playing a hole. Maybe I'd play it one way, maybe an amateur golfer would play it a different way. "We can then look at that and then give them some advice on how to get the ball around the course to the best of their ability."
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