The Costa del Sol will once again become the focus of the professional golfing news from November 25 to 28 thanks to the celebration of the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España, a tournament played this year at Los Naranjos Golf Club and which once again serves as a brilliant culmination of the season. In Marbella also ends the second edition of the Race to Costa del Sol, order of merit of the Ladies European Tour sponsored by Turismo Costa del Sol and become an unavoidable international reference for all golf fans.
The president of Turismo Costa del Sol, Francisco Salado, has expressed his satisfaction that the Open will once again land on the Costa del Golf, specifically in Los Naranjos Golf Club, ambassador of a region, the Costa del Sol, which hosts the tournament for the eighth time in its modern stage after hosting it in Flamingos (2010), La Quinta (2011 and 2018), Aloha Golf (2016 and 2019), and the Real Club de Golf Guadalmina (2017 and 2020).
The president of Costa del Sol Tourism has also referred to the benefits of the course and has indicated that “with its careful design, significantly improved in recent years more than meets the demand of its visitors and the needs of its members, because its golf offer is complemented, in addition, with services worthy of the Gold Flag awarded by the prestigious platform 59Club”.
Francisco Salado has once again highlighted the importance of the golf segment in the province of Malaga and has indicated that, with 74 courses, the Costa del Sol is the area of continental Europe with the highest density of courses with more than 500 holes irrigated with recycled water.
The president of Turismo Costa del Sol, Francisco Salado has also stressed that “the seasonal power of this segment is undoubted and the level of spending of these tourists, higher than the average visitor. The great economic contribution that brings this type of visitor to the tourism industry in the province is undeniable, for its high purchasing power, and the high rating that give us golf tourists, as well as its high degree of loyalty.
Salado has indicated that “the golf segment contributes revenues of 1,400 million and 17,700 jobs to the Costa del Sol. To all this, we must add that golfers give us an average score of 9.24 out of ten: an exceptional figure whose greatest guarantors are safety, humane treatment and value for money. 98.7% recommend the Costa del Golf destination”.
The grand finale of the Ladies European Tour will have an exceptional prize purse, 600,000 €, to which will be added another quarter of a million euros to be shared by the three best of the Race to Costa del Sol. In addition, the line-up of this year’s Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España will be select, as it will host the 64 best players in the ranking, who will be accompanied by eight top guest golfers, names that have left a deep imprint on international golf.
The Marbella course, designed by the renowned Robert Trent Jones Sr., will pose a fair but exciting challenge to the Ladies European Tour golfers who will walk its fairways and greens, which are always carefully tended. Its appeal, which will reach viewers in 148 countries thanks to international television broadcasting, will be a magnificent attraction that will serve to increase the number of visitors who come annually to the best golf destination in continental Europe to enjoy its mild climate and a wide range of leisure, culture and gastronomy. In the Costa del Sol, golf is not a mere complement, but has its own entity and drives by itself the visit of tourists who extend their stays and offer an average expenditure higher than that of other visitors.
In addition to its importance as the closing event of the Ladies European Tour calendar, the tournament also maintains very close ties with the Solheim Cup 2023, a competition promoted by the global sponsorship of the Costa del Sol and the essential support of the Junta de Andalucía and other local institutions (such as Acosol and the town councils of Marbella and Benahavís) which will bring together for the first time in Spain the women’s teams of Europe and the United States. Both the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España and the Solheim Cup 2023 have a remarkable public and private support and will help to reinforce the role of golf as a tourist attraction and that of women’s sport as a basic backbone of society.
News about the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España can be followed on the website openfemenino.com, the Twitter account @Openfemenino, the Instagram account @spanishopen and the Facebook page @openfemenino.
The Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España 2021 will be held at Los Naranjos Golf Club from November 25 to 28 and is part of the program of the Solheim Cup 2023, an event declared an Event of Exceptional Public Interest (AEIP) and which provides important tax advantages to the participating companies. The Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España, the last event of the Ladies European Tour calendar, has the main sponsorship of Andalucía, Costa del Sol and Acosol, who together with the Marbella Town Hall and Benahavís Town Hall, as well as the rest of the collaborators (Eversheds Sutherland, Kyocera, Mahou, PING, Reale Seguros, Audi Safamotor and Solán de Cabras) and organizing entities (Deporte & Business, Ladies European Tour, Real Federación Española de Golf and Real Federación Andaluza de Golf) make this event possible.
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