The Madrid Golf Federation has agreed to award the Institutional Medal of Merit in Golf to Deporte & Business, in recognition of its extensive and successful work in the promotion of golf and the organization of amateur and professional tournaments, both nationally and internationally.
Deporte & Business, created by Alicia Garrido and Íñigo Aramburu in 1997, has organized more than a thousand high-level tournaments to date, including more than 30 tournaments of the European Women’s Tour, such as the Open de España -the first in 2002-, the European Nations Cup or the Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open, among others, as well as different amateur and professional circuits, with special mention to the Santander Golf Tour, a benchmark in national professional golf, and admired in the rest of Europe.
Likewise, the FGM agreed to award the Medal of Merit in Golf as an Individual to Bernardo Rodríguez Álvarez for his extensive work and dedication to the development of golf in the Community of Madrid, and especially in the discipline of Pitch & Putt.
Bernardo Rodríguez Álvarez has been president of the Pitch & Putt Committee of the Madrid Golf Federation for eight years, although he began his intense and selfless work in the FGM when he was part of the Amateur Committee more than a decade ago. He is also a member of the Delegate Commission of the FGM and the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, and a member of the Pitch & Putt Committee of the RFEG.
His intense work and that of his team has ensured that the 20 annual P&P tournaments that were held upon his arrival through the Committee, have been transformed into the 80 tournaments that were held in 2019, with an undisputed success of participation and promotion of golf in our region.
In addition, Bernardo Rodríguez is co-founder of the Club de Golf sin Campo Puerta del Sol, the oldest club in Madrid, and founder of the Club de Golf sin Campo Par en Par, of which he was also president.
The FGM also agreed to award an Honorary Plaque to Patrimonio Nacional, the institution that owns the land on which several golf facilities are located in the Community of Madrid and which has helped to promote golf in our community.
Likewise, it has been awarded the Plaque of Merit in Golf to the Villa de El Escorial Association on the 25th anniversary of its creation, in 1994, and which subsequently developed the 9-hole natural grass course with the aim of “promoting and practicing the sport of golf in an atmosphere of friendship and fellowship in a unique environment such as the Sierra de Guadarrama”, and which in 2017 was recognized as a “green course” by the RFEG.
Foro 2000, a non-profit golf club without a golf course that, on the twentieth anniversary of its creation, continues to develop a meritorious work in the approach and practice of golf to all golf enthusiasts. It has more than 250 members and develops a constant and successful work of promotion and organization of golf events in the Community of Madrid.
The act of recognition and presentation of Medals and Plaques will take place on the 31st during the Gala of Tribute of the FGM to be held at the Club de Golf Retamares.
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