The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters has shown once again that it is much more than a great golf tournament thanks to the initiative of the European Tour and the City Council of San Roque. Hundreds of volunteers, students from schools in the area and neighbors joined the efforts of Santiago Tarrío and Alejandro Cañizares, two of the best Spanish players present at the tournament held at the Real Club Valderrama, to clean the Torreguadiaro beach last Tuesday.
This initiative is part of the European Tour’s Green Drive program, created to promote social and environmental responsibility and generate a positive impact in terms of sustainability. In this case, the action that took place on the 12th had an immediate and visible footprint, as volunteers took care of collecting garbage and microplastics in this wonderful environment of the coast of San Roque.
Every year almost eight million tons of plastic waste ends up in the sea and its presence is extremely harmful to marine life and, by extension, to humans, as it contributes to the reduction of biodiversity and the extinction of species. The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters team organized this beach clean-up operation with a simple goal: to collect as much plastic and trash as possible so that the beach and the sea are clean and safe for everyone.
The two players who accompanied the volunteers, the Galician Santiago Tarrio and the local Alejandro Cañizares, were fully involved and praised this initiative as the nature lovers that they are, praising the role of the local entities and sponsors of the tournament that have promoted it.
“This type of action makes us all better, because in the end it’s not just about playing golf, you have to teach children the impressive values that golf has, and with initiatives like this we show something more important: that we must respect the environment to respect ourselves,” said Santiago Tarrío.
For his part, Alejandro Cañizares was very grateful to be able to participate in such an initiative, because being from this area of Andalusia he knows that it is something necessary and that all help is welcome.
“It is incredible the amount of garbage that is found on a beach like this, and we must become aware once and for all that we must take care of our environment, because that is taking care of ourselves too. I hope this is done beyond San Roque, Andalusia and Spain, because it is a global problem that we have to solve together, and it costs nothing to help and not pollute,” said Cañizares himself.
The volunteers were rewarded for their efforts and commitment as the first 200 participants received a pass to enter the Real Club Valderrama on Saturday to enjoy the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters.
It is also fair to thank the collaboration of the City Council of San Roque, the International School of Sotogrande for the selfless collaboration of so many of their young students, and volunteers, whose efforts served to clean the beach of Torreguadiaro and collect more than 230 kilos of garbage.
Tickets to enjoy this year’s edition of the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters are already on sale, and the flexibility of the offer allows you to choose between individual access for each day, four-day passes or passes for the weekend, with preferential rates for children under 14 years, federated or people with reduced mobility.
Tickets can be purchased from the Tickets menu on the tournament website, at edamgolf.es or at Fever.
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, a European Tour tournament valid for the Race to Dubai and held thanks to the essential collaboration of the Real Club Valderrama, is sponsored by Estrella Damm and the Ministry of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration of the Andalusian Regional Government, as well as being co-financed with European funds and having been declared an event of exceptional public interest by the Spanish Government. The tournament is also supported by the Diputación de Cádiz, Exterior Plus, Hero, Rolex and Santander Private Banking. Callaway, Cinco Jotas, Enterprise, Gadira, Kyocera, La Reserva Club Sotogrande, Marca, Quirónsalud, the Royal Andalusian Golf Federation, Riversa, SO/ Sotogrande, Varma and Volvo are official suppliers.
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