{"id":21550,"date":"2017-03-01T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/gecko-tour-grand-finale-at-finca-cortesin\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:16:51","slug":"gecko-tour-grand-finale-at-finca-cortesin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/gecko-tour-grand-finale-at-finca-cortesin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gecko Tour Grand Finale at Finca Cortes\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-6743\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-San-Roque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"874\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-San-Roque.jpg 874w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-San-Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-San-Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-San-Roque-550x367.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sixth season of The Gecko Tour draws to a conclusion next week with a pro-am and championship final at Finca Cortes\u00edn from 5 to 7 March. The last three events of the main season, which began in November and has included 22 tournaments (apart from the final), produced three new winners on Europe\u2019s premier winter circuit. <\/p>\n<p>Malaga-born Leo Lilja (24) secured his first professional title at San Roque\u2019s New Course, having joined the paid ranks two years ago after winning the pitch and putt Spanish championship three years in a row. His three-over total in windy weather conditions was two strokes better than second-placed Darren Walkley, while Sam Connor (second in the order of merit) finished another shot back in third place. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five-year-old Julie Aim\u00e9 became just the second woman to win on The Gecko Tour (after Marbella\u2019s Noem\u00ed JimAtalayaAtl\u00f1ata in January)man to win on The Gecko Tour (after le Sam Connor finished another shot back in third place. ars in a \u00e9nez at Atalaya in January), carding three birdies on the last five holes at La Quinta for a total of 138 and her own first pro title. Good friend Camille Chevalier, who suggested she compete on the tour, finished joint second three strokes back, level with Luke Johnson, Mike Bedford and Ryan Fricker. <\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Clarke Lutton (29) won the penultimate event at Calanova with a 36-hole total of seven-under, beating runner-up Jean Luc Burnier (Switzerland) by one shot, with Scott Fernandez and Alex Belt joint third (the latter concluding with a superb second round 64).<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s Andreas Andersson is the current leader of the Gecko order of merit heading to the final tournament of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-6745\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-Calanova.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"874\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-Calanova.jpg 874w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-Calanova-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-Calanova-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_TGT-Calanova-550x367.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth season of The Gecko Tour draws to a conclusion next week with a pro-am and championship final at Finca Cortes\u00edn from 5 to 7 March. The last three events of the main season, which began in November and has included 22 tournaments (apart from the final), produced three new winners on Europe\u2019s premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21550","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\/21550","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=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}