{"id":21166,"date":"2016-04-13T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/the-spanish-armada-ready-to-do-battle-at-the-real-club-valderrama\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T07:45:14","slug":"the-spanish-armada-ready-to-do-battle-at-the-real-club-valderrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/the-spanish-armada-ready-to-do-battle-at-the-real-club-valderrama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish armada, ready to do battle at the Real Club Valderrama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entire Armada is already at the Real Club Valderrama a few hours before the start of the Open de Espa\u00f1a \u2013 Sergio Garc\u00eda Foundation. Yesterday was the second day of training, a day of reunion between teammates in the only tournament of the European Tour that is being held this year in Spain. In the traditional family photo of Spanish players there was no lack of jokes and laughter. The good atmosphere reigns at the Real Club Valderrama in its historic date with the Open de Espa\u00f1a. <\/p>\n

There will be 23 Spaniards playing in the tournament starting tomorrow. Sergio Garc\u00eda and Rafael Cabrera-Bello, fresh from the Augusta Masters, along with Pablo Larraz\u00e1bal, Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o, \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s, Jorge Campillo, Nacho Elvira, Eduardo de la Riva, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Lara, Adri\u00e1n Otaegui, Borja Virto, Carlos del Moral, Pedro Oriol, Xavier Guzm\u00e1n, Carlos Pigem, Pablo Mart\u00edn-Benavides, Borja Etchart, Pep Angl\u00e9s, Scott Fern\u00e1ndez, Jordi Garc\u00eda Pinto and the amateurs Iv\u00e1n Cantero and Mario Galiano. <\/p>\n

Today the Pro-Am will be played with a new format. Amateur players will have the opportunity to share a match with two professionals, one on the front nine and the other on the back nine. In addition, each match will have special spectators. The Sergio Garcia Foundation has invited a group of children from the children\u2019s school of the La Ca\u00f1ada Golf Club, in Gudiaro, to accompany the teams to learn from the professionals first hand. There will be a total of 31 children from 8 to 14 years old, 16 in the morning and 15 in the afternoon. <\/p>\n

Yesterday the presentation of the tournament took place, highlighting the importance of golf as a tourist attraction and its impact on the economy and employment in the area.<\/p>\n

The president of Real Club Valderrama, Nuno Pereira Machado, highlighted the \u201chonor\u201d for the club to host this tournament and showed his interest in having big tournaments again in the future. \u201cSpain is going to have a great tournament and I hope it will be at Valderrama. We are trying to continue the legacy of Jaime Ortiz-Pati\u00f1o. He did a great job for golf in this area, in Spain and in Europe. Valderrama without great tournaments is not Valderrama\u201d. <\/p>\n

Gonzaga Escauriaza, president of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, stressed that this edition of the Open de Espa\u00f1a has all the ingredients to be a success and highlighted the enormous expectation generated by the celebration of the tournament at R.C. Valderrama.<\/span><\/p>\n

Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, mayor of San Roque, expressed his satisfaction to welcome a show \u201cthat transcends the purely sporting by the economic impact it generates in San Roque and throughout the Campo de Gibraltar\u201d. Ruix Boix wanted to wish luck to all participants, especially Alvaro Quiros and Mario Galiano, players of the quarry of La Ca\u00f1ada. <\/p>\n

The general director of activities and promotion of sport of the Junta de Andaluc\u00eda, ski champion M\u00aa Jos\u00e9 Rienda, said that golf is the most competitive segment in Andalusia. \u201cIn 2014 we were visited by 458,000 golf tourists. We want to recover our commitment to major tournaments because that will allow us to show Andalusia to the whole world.\u201d <\/p>\n

The vice-president of the European Tour, \u00c1ngel Gallardo, explained that \u201cif the Tour has financially supported the celebration of the Spanish Open this year, it has been in recognition of the great contribution made by Spanish players to European golf\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The entire Armada is already at the Real Club Valderrama a few hours before the start of the Open de Espa\u00f1a \u2013 Sergio Garc\u00eda Foundation. Yesterday was the second day of training, a day of reunion between teammates in the only tournament of the European Tour that is being held this year in Spain. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21166","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=21166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}