Finca Cortesín, host of the Solheim Cup 2023, has a firm and strategic commitment to women’s golf. That is why once again this year we are sponsoring two of our leading professional players, Noemí Jiménez, for the sixth consecutive season, and Laura Gómez, for the first time, who has ceased to be a “young promise” to become a reality, a consistent player to be taken into account.
Finca Cortesín has been supporting women’s golf for many years now, says the resort’s general manager, Vicente Rubio, “a long time helping emerging stars who are appearing and who need all the support possible once they have passed their amateur stage”.
“This year,” he continues, “we have bet again on Noemí Jiménez and also, for the first time, on Laura Gómez, not only because we have more players, but also because of the pretension and the idea that any of them can reach the Solheim Cup 2023”.
“For us it has always been very important the women’s golf segment, which we considered a little left by the hand of God. We believe that it has great potential and that it is time to make a great effort to promote and enhance it by supporting future champions, bringing major events, as the Costa del Sol, Andalusia and other administrations have done with the Solheim Cup; and, on the part of private entities, generating suitable offers and packages that adapt to the needs of the female world, which may be quite different from the demands of the male world regarding golf tourism”.
-Noemi, would your main goal be to play the Solheim Cup in 2023?
-Before answering that, I would like to say that I am very grateful to Finca Cortesín because since I turned professional they have bet and believed in me. This is already my sixth year with them and for me they have become part of my family.
Regarding the Solheim Cup 2023, yes, it is one of my dreams to achieve, one of my goals. If every year as a professional we set goals every time we go out to play, the fact of having in mind that great competition and that it will also be played in the club that sponsors you, the stimulus is much greater. If I could be there it would be my dream come true.
For that I am training hard every day and I am delighted to do it in this spectacular course that offers us great facilities to do it. Here they treat us like queens, we can’t be better. I am very grateful to them.
-What are you doing now, this year?
-I have a full LET card, so I want to concentrate on this circuit, although I will try to qualify to play the majors, especially the britihs, which is a very special tournament for me because I love the links.
Of course, my medium-term goal is to be in the Solheim Cup, although I know that to get there we have to overcome many things; we will probably have to play the American Tour or achieve several victories in the European Tour to be in the top of the ranking. I am aware that there is still a lot of work to do but I will do everything in my power to be in the team.
Also for Laura Gomez her best dream would be to be part of the European team for the Solheim Cup 2023 . “It’s the dream,” she says, “that I’ve always had. I’m working for it. Now that I’m going to start being sponsored by Finca Cortesín I’m even more excited, and I’m very happy that they are counting on me to represent this club in the tournaments I’ll be playing this year on the LET”.
“My season,” Laura continues, “is similar to Noemi’s, I also have a full Ladies European Tour card and we will both start competing in South Africa in May. Now we are with the preseason training at full speed and looking forward to compete because we haven’t done it since December. We miss it.
-Tournaments in pandemics are very different…
-Yes, at first it was hard for me to adapt because everything was very different from what I was used to, although I have only been a professional for a few years. It has been a radical change from one year to another: competing without an audience, the “bubble” of the tournaments; from the field to the hotel and from the hotel to the field… but well, it is for our health and that of everyone and we have to accept it that way.
“We miss the public,” says Noemi, “especially at the big tournaments. The worst thing about the covid protocol is that you have to know how to manage the weeks of competition very well. Now, for example, we are going to have ten weeks in a row competing with covid protocol, which means that we will have to stay only in the field and the hotel, without being able to leave. So we will have to manage ourselves very well mentally to be able to disconnect from golf, from the round or whatever, when you are not on the course, and that this “confinement” does not affect us week after week. Before, you used to go out, take a walk, see the cities, now that’s unfeasible.”
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