The magnificent Flamingos, one of the three courses of the Costa del Sol Villa Padierna Golf Club has once again demonstrated its great quality as the setting for the Andalucía Golf Challenge Circuit, which this year celebrates its eleventh edition and has as its grand final prize five one-week trips to Riviera Maya, in Mexico, including flights, transfers, five-star all-inclusive hotel and golf at three of the best courses in the Caribbean: PGA Riviera Maya, El Camaleón Mayacoba and Playa Paraíso.
Sunny weather, moderate wind and a temperature of around 30 degrees accompanied the hundred or so players who took part in the tournament on the beautiful course of the magnificent golf club managed by Pedro Morán Rochell. Among the participants was Osvaldo Ardiles, World Cup winner with the Argentine national soccer team in 1978 and later player and coach of Tottenham and other renowned teams.
After the competition and before the prize giving and the raffle of gifts, the participants enjoyed a very special meal, an extraordinary barbecue by the Marbella butcher shop The Butcher Guadalmina, located in the Guadalmina Shopping Center. Rubén and his team together with Barbecue World staff prepared beef chops, pulled pork iberico and other delicacies, such as a tomato salad with burrata foam, which delighted the players. The meats were cooked on a range of barbecues supplied for the occasion by Barbecue World, whose Sales Director, Sebastián Green, explained the characteristics of the different stoves, which are fueled by pellets of different woods. This company has an exhibition / sale of its products in the Polygon of Estepona (Calle Juan de Mena, 18).
In terms of sporting results, in the first category, the three first classified, all with the same score, were Francisco Javier Suso Teixidor (38 points), Francisco Funes Gutiérrez (38) and Alain Francois Rivollier (38).
The top three in the second category were Gonzalo Iceta Ripoll ( (42 points)Manuel Mingot Aznar (41) and Álvaro Solís Otegui (38).
The scratch winner was Frank Stockmans, with 37 scratch points.
The special prize for the closest ball to the flag went to Bernardo Piermichele on hole 5 and Santiago Gutiérrez Duque on hole 16, and the longest drive went to Danielle Bostoen and Borja Rodríguez del Castillo.
(SEE PHOTO GALLERY OF THE TOURNAMENT AT THE END OF THIS CHRONICLE).
As in the previous two years, this open amateur circuit organized by the magazine Andalucía Golf/España Golf has as a prize for the final five trips to the Caribbean by the hand of Grupo Piñero. Apart from the prizes of each competition, the first classified in each category plus the scratch winner of each tournament get a direct place to play the grand final of the circuit at the Marbella Golf Resort on October 2, with closing dinner of the circuit at the restaurant El Gamonal in Marbella and thus opt for one of the five trips to Riviera Maya for a week. The remaining places for the final game are obtained based on a ranking based on the points obtained in the tournaments played.
The trip to the Riviera Maya is scheduled for November 6-14 of this year. Two rounds will be played at the PGA Riviera Maya, one at Mayakoba (after the completion of the PGA Tour’s Mayakoba Classic) and another at Playa Paraiso.
We are grateful for the support of our sponsors: the hotel chain Bahía Príncipe (www.bahiaprincipe.com), the golf course hosting the week-long golf prize, PGARiviera Maya (www.pgarivieramaya.com), Sanitas (www.sanitas.es), Viviendo del Trading (www.viviendodeltrading.com) and the Ayuntamiento de Mijas (www.mijas.es).
Also to our collaborators: Holiday Golf, Holiday Golf Estates, Bodegas Laus D.O. Somontano, Restaurante El Gamonal, Fairway + Blue, Cadena SER and Ayuntamiento de Marbella.
PGA RIVIERA MAYA BAHIA PRINCIPE DESTINATION
The Grand Final of the Circuit will determine the five one-week all-inclusive trips to the Bahia Principe resort in Riviera Maya (Bahia Principe Grand Tulum hotel *****) with golf at PGA Riviera Maya, El Camaleon Mayakoba, and Playa Paraiso. The top two finishers in each category and the scratch winner of the Grand Final, to be played on October 2 at Marbella Club Golf Resort, will travel to the Mexican Caribbean.
PLANNED DATE OF TRIP
November 6 to 14, 2021
The PRIZE INCLUDES
– Flights from Malaga or Madrid to Cancun round trip
– Transfers from airport to hotel and back
– All inclusive accommodation at the Bahia Principe Grand Tulum hotel *****
– Golf at PGARiviera Maya, El Camaleón Mayakoba and Playa Paraíso
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