{"id":14719,"date":"2014-06-23T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/the-andalusian-pitch-putt-open-gets-underway-with-great-success\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:43:35","slug":"the-andalusian-pitch-putt-open-gets-underway-with-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/the-andalusian-pitch-putt-open-gets-underway-with-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Andalusian Pitch &amp; Putt Open gets underway with great success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3581\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/News_primeros-clasificados-open-de-andalucia-pp.jpeg.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px;\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/News_primeros-clasificados-open-de-andalucia-pp.jpeg.jpg 700w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/News_primeros-clasificados-open-de-andalucia-pp.jpeg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/News_primeros-clasificados-open-de-andalucia-pp.jpeg-550x367.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Resounding success of the inaugural edition of the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Andalusia Open of Pitch &amp; Putt<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"> tournament that was held this weekend at the Costa del Sol&#8217;s course of <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Benalm\u00e1dena Golf<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The competition was attended by fifty golfers who played under the rules established by the <strong>IPPA <\/strong><strong>(International Pitch &amp; Putt Association<\/strong>), including the mandatory use of a maximum of three clubs, including the putter, in the case of men, and five for women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In the women&#8217;s category, <strong>Valentina Albertazzi <\/strong>took the lead after a first round of 52 strokes (-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On the second day, the junior player repeated the result and certified the victory with two strokes of income over the local golfer <strong>Natalia G\u00f3mez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In this last round, it is worth mentioning the magnificent hole-in-one achieved by <strong>Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez <\/strong>on hole 8 of the Benalmadena course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On the other hand, in the men&#8217;s category, there was a lot of excitement to find out the first winner of the tournament, a triumph that finally went to <strong>Casto G\u00f3mez<\/strong>, author of a stratospheric final round of -10<strong>(best card of the competition and Benalm\u00e1dena Golf record<\/strong>), which allowed him to tie at 94 strokes (14 under par) with <strong>Leonardo Lilja<\/strong>, three-time Spanish Pitch &amp; Putt champion, and beat him thanks to the difference in handicap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As regards the handicap rankings, among the women, local player<strong> B\u00e1rbara V\u00f6lkel <\/strong>(98 net strokes) beat <strong>Valeria Espinosa<\/strong> and <strong>B\u00e1rbara Mart\u00edn<\/strong> by the minimum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In the men&#8217;s classification,<strong> Juan Soler<\/strong> (96 strokes) was one stroke ahead of junior <strong>David George Schneider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">At the awards ceremony of this first edition of the Andalusian Pitch &amp; Putt Open were present, among others, <strong>Antonio Fuentes,<\/strong> President of the Pitch &amp; Putt Committee of the <strong>Royal Andalusian Golf Federation<\/strong>; and <strong>Miguel Navarro<\/strong>, Benalm\u00e1dena Golf Professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resounding success of the inaugural edition of the Andalusia Open of Pitch &amp; Putt tournament that was held this weekend at the Costa del Sol&#8217;s course of Benalm\u00e1dena Golf. The competition was attended by fifty golfers who played under the rules established by the IPPA (International Pitch &amp; Putt Association), including the mandatory use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-showcase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}