The Real Club de Golf Guadalmina will host the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España Femenino from September 21 to 24. The star tournament of professional women’s golf in our country returns again to a Marbella course, since last year it was held at Aloha Golf, where Azahara Muñoz won in a thrilling final.
This brilliant Andalusian player enrolled in the U.S. Tour will defend the title at the club where she grew up as a golfer and which is located very close to her family’s home.
The tournament will be played on the splendid greens of the South Course of the RCG Guadalmina. This course, like that of Aloha, was one of the great works of the most renowned Spanish golf course designer, the Basque Javier Arana.
This competition of the Women’s European Tour (LET) will be played the week after the Evian Championship (France), the last of the five tournaments that make up the Women’s Grand Slam. The others are the US Women’s Open, the Women’s PGA Championship and the Women’s British Open.
The RCG Guadalmina, directed by Ignacio del Cuvillo, is one of the most popular golf clubs on the Costa del Sol, both in terms of visitors and number of members, with more than 2,000, among which almost twenty nationalities are represented.
The South Course was inaugurated in 1959, and in 1973 the North Course, designed by Folco Nardi and also with 18 holes, was opened for play. In 1989, the club’s golfing offer was completed with the opening of its 9-hole par 3 course, .
The Guadalmina Golf School is a source of legitimate pride for the club. Thanks to the support of its members, the work of the School Committee, the know-how of its professional Francisco Hernandez during the first five decades and since 2013 equipped with a team of four highly qualified professionals and led by its director Castor Gomez Lopez, the Golf School brings hundreds of young people to the world of golf every year.
At the same time, the junior players carry the name of Guadalmina around the world with champions of Andalusia, Spain, Europe and amateur and professional trophies, thanks to players like Azahara Muñoz, Noemi Jimenez, Angel Hidalgo, Rocio Sanchez Lobato, siblings Esther and Angel Ibanez, Laura Cabanillas, Sergio Gutierrez or Casto Gomez, among many others.
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