Manuel Piñero has been the first guest of the program “Golf a toda Costa” which was launched yesterday on Cadena SER Costa del Sol, hosted by the magazine Andalucía Golf/España Golf in the voices of its editor, Antonio Sánchez Marcos, and its director, Eduardo García Palacios. The program, presented by Jose Maria Martin and includes interviews, debates and golf news on the Costa del Sol, will be broadcast every Thursday at 13.30 hours from the studios of the radio station in Marbella, the city where Andalucía Golf is based.
In his speech, Piñero spoke of the honor of his appointment as captain of the men’s team that will represent Spain at the next Olympic Games and criticized the defections of great players like the Australian Adam Scott or South Africans Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, who have announced that they will not attend the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The three-time World Cup champion (in 1974 as a team with Seve, and in 1982 with Cañizares and also as an individual), winner of nine tournaments on the European Tour and of the 1985 Ryder Cup, which ended almost three decades of American dominance in the famous biennial competition, also recounted one of the most tragic events that happened to him on a golf course. It was 1977 and Piñero, who that year had won one of his five Spanish championship titles, was playing with Bing Crosby at La Moraleja when, just after finishing the match, they were on their way to the clubhouse, the famous American actor and singer died instantly of a myocardial infarction.
The next program, on Thursday, June 2, will have as guests the new director of the Marbella club Los Naranjos, Julián Romaguera, and the internet marketing expert and creator of the golf tourism portal Golfboo, Antonio Conde.
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