The Royal Spanish Golf Federation has approved the awarding of five Gold Medals, one Silver Medal and three Golf Merit Plaques in recognition of various relevant actions in all sectors of the sport.
Mar Ruiz de la Torre, María Acacia López Bachiller, José Manuel Jiménez, Salvador Cuyás and Celia Barquín have been awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Golf, Consuelo Díaz has been recognized with the Silver Medal of Merit in Golf while the Residencia Joaquín Blume, the company U1stSports and the Club de Golf Escorpión have been awarded the Plaque of Merit in Golf.
With these distinctions, awarded after previous proposals sent to the Honors Committee, the RFEG aims to reward this group of people and institutions that have distinguished themselves over the past years for their support and promotion of golf both within and outside our borders.
This is the case of Mar Ruiz de la Torre, current President of the Women’s Amateur Technical Committee of the RFEG, a position she has held since 2013. Strongly linked to the world of golf since her childhood in El Saler and Escorpión Golf Club, she participated in the organization and coordination of professional tournaments of the highest level in our country for two decades, as well as with projects promoted by Severiano Ballesteros and Miguel Ángel Jiménez or the development of Summer Courses for young golfers of the RFEG. In the federative field, she has been part of the Youth Committees of the Federations of the Valencian Community and Madrid before joining the Women’s Committee of the RFEG.
For her part, María Acacia López-Bachiller (in the photo that illustrates this information) has developed a huge work in the field of communication and public relations for more than forty years. Head of Press for the European Tour in Spain and responsible for the press rooms of the most important professional tournaments held in our country for decades, she generated from the first moment, based on work and excellent manners, a vital connection between all the actors of Spanish and European golf, with special mention for golfers, institutions, clubs and the media, who have found in her a fundamental support that has contributed to the growth and development of the sport of Spanish golf both inside and outside our borders.
Additionally, José Manuel Jiménez Espinosa, president of the Real Club de Golf de Manises between 2003 and 2017, has contributed decisively for more than three lustrums to the development and viability of this Valencian club, tirelessly dealing with the expansion of the airport until a solution beneficial to all parties was found. Member of the Board of Directors of the RFEG between 2004 and 2012 and member of the Delegate Commission between 2015 and 2017, he has always stood out for his dedication and collaboration to make golf a more popular sport.
The award of the Gold Medal of Merit in Golf also goes to Salvador Cuyás Jorge.linked to the world of golf as a player and manager throughout his life, specifically focused on the Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas and golf in the Canary Islands. President of the aforementioned club in several stages – in the periods between 1992-2001 and 2008-2016-, he has strongly promoted the island golf activity, actively participating in the commemorations of the Centenary and the 125 years of history of the RCG Las Palmas as the dean of golf clubs in our country. After leaving the presidency of the Gran Canarian club, he has been a member of the RFEG Board of Directors since 2017.
She was also awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Golf posthumously, Celia Barquín Arozamena was a regular member of the Spanish teams, where she contributed at all times her undoubted quality, helping to win bronze and silver medals in the Women’s Absolute European Team Championships in 2015 and 2016, a prelude to her great individual success, concretized on July 28, 2018, when she was proclaimed brilliant individual European champion. Runner-up in the Spanish Junior Championship in 2006 and Spanish Junior Champion in 2010, she joined the Blume National Golf School in the 2012-2013 promotion, previously endorsed by her first two international triumphs at the Grand Prix of Chiberta in 2011 and 2012, a victory she repeated again in 2013.
The chapter of Medals of Merit in Golf is completed, in Silver category, with Consuelo Díaz Pérez, responsible for the RFEG’s Customer Service Department since July 2005, when the Federation moved to its current location at the National Golf Center. Main receiver of calls and messages from the Federation, she has solved at all times with efficiency, kindness and professionalism this important area before accessing her well-deserved retirement.
Also note that the RFEG has awarded the Plaque of Merit in Golf to the Residencia Joaquín Blume, a High Performance Center that is part of the history of sporting success in Spain, a multi-sport concept of national and international reference that provides those who enjoy it – among them the members of the National Golf School for many years – all the sporting and academic facilities to develop their careers in optimal conditions, for which it is necessary to highlight each and every one of its managers and staff.
Likewise, U1stSports has been awarded for its contribution to this sport with the Golf Merit Plaque, an international company founded in 2002 with the aim of offering comprehensive solutions in the field of sport, both in terms of representation and promotion and sponsorship. Linked to the RFEG since 2007, it has promoted the very important presence of Reale Seguros as sponsor of the Open de España and the Federation as a whole for more than a decade, contributing to the relaunching of this tournament as well as many other areas of Spanish golf in general.
Finally, the Scorpion Golf Club was founded in 1969. After a short journey through Manises and El Saler, it promoted the gradual construction of its current 27 holes at its current location in Bétera, from where it has become an indisputable national golfing reference, both for its promotion of golf in all categories and ages and for the organization of the most important amateur and professional tournaments, with special mention for the Open de España in 1980. As a model sporting facility, many of its golfers are on the list of winners of the Valencian Community, Spanish and European Championships.
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