The Gecko Tour returns this Tuesday with a new appointment at Rio Real Golf Hotel and Atalaya Golf & Country Club. It will be the third tournament of 2016, an event that has generated a lot of interest and that once again places the Costa del Sol circuit at the top of the ranking at this time of the year.
Everyone wants to play the Gecko and there is no shortage of reasons. The courses are better prepared every year, the organization is exemplary and the competition every week to win is brutal. It is not only difficult to get to the last holes with a chance of victory, but the demand to pass the cut is tremendous.
Around one hundred players have registered to play this week. After the Christmas vacations, many golfers are returning to competition, either to fight for the Gecko Order of Merit or to prepare for other circuits such as the European Tour, the Challenge Tour, Ladies European Tour or LPGA. The conditions offered by the Gecko are hard to beat.
For this reason, it is not strange to see this week in the tournament players of the caliber of Gabriel Cañizares, who next week will compete in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic of the European Tour, Noemi Jimenez or Natalia Escuriola, who in a few days will start their journey in the best European women’s circuit, Mark Tullo, Mario Galiano, Luke Johnson, Alfredo Garcia Heredia, Jordi Garcia del Moral, Andreas Andersson, Manuel Quiros, Marcos Pastor, Carlos Rodiles…. The cast is extraordinary and a good reflection of the level that the Gecko is acquiring every year.
The tournament will be played, as every week, in three days. The first two days the players will alternate between the Río Real and Atalaya courses, and on the third day those who make the cut will play at Río Real. What happened just a couple of months ago in this same event is still fresh in the memory, although the courses were played in reverse order, that is to say, the last day ended at Atalaya. The winner was the Chilean Mark Tullo and Noemí Jiménez finished second, three strokes behind. We will see what happens this week. The excitement is guaranteed and so is the competition.
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