{"id":21492,"date":"2017-06-16T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/world-top-10-duel-at-andalucia-valderrama-masters\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T11:47:00","slug":"world-top-10-duel-at-andalucia-valderrama-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/world-top-10-duel-at-andalucia-valderrama-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"World Top-10 Duel at Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tournament co-host Sergio Garc\u00eda\u2019s US Masters victory at Augusta and confirmation that Jon Rahm will compete in the Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters have represented excellent news for Royal Valderrama Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cSergio\u2019s win has been extraordinary and a matter of great pride for us, the same as Rahm playing at Valderrama in his first tournament in Spain as a professional,\u201d says general manager Javier Reviriego. \u201cI believe his presence \u2013 obviously together with Sergio\u2019s \u2013 will have a major impact on the tournament, as he will probably be already top-10 by the time this event is held.\u201d (Just days after his comments, Rahm rose to ninth in the world ranking after finishing second in the Dean & Deluca on the US PGA Tour). <\/p>\n

This means that at least two of the top-10 players in the world will be competing in the Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters. \u201cAt least two,\u201d notes Reviriego, \u201cand there will be other top-class names we will be able to confirm as the date draws closer.\u201d <\/p>\n

As for the tournament venue, he says, \u201cWe have been meeting with European Tour agronomists and we have now started to prepare the course\u201d, which will feature \u201csome changes in respect of the set-up last year\u201d (when Andrew \u201cBeef\u201d Johnston won the Spanish Open).<\/p>\n

Another novelty will be the installation \u2013 the same as during the Ryder Cup, World Golf Championships and Volvo Masters \u2013 of a hospitality marquee behind the green of the iconic 17th hole. In addition there will be a leisure village with a catering area for the public, on this occasion extending over a larger area than in 2016. <\/p>\n

The club has great expectations of major spectator numbers at Valderrama, bearing in mind both the high level of players and the tournament dates. \u201cI believe,\u201d says Reviriego, \u201cthat there will be more people than during the Spanish Open, certainly.\u201d <\/p>\n

To help fans remain up to date about everything related to the Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters, a special website has been launched where tickets for the tournament can also be purchased. These advance-sale tickets are available for reduced prices compared with those sold at the course during the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tournament co-host Sergio Garc\u00eda\u2019s US Masters victory at Augusta and confirmation that Jon Rahm will compete in the Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters have represented excellent news for Royal Valderrama Club. \u201cSergio\u2019s win has been extraordinary and a matter of great pride for us, the same as Rahm playing at Valderrama in his first tournament in Spain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21492","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\/21492","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=21492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}