{"id":21611,"date":"2016-12-05T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/rare-gecko-tour-double-at-atalaya\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:41:03","slug":"rare-gecko-tour-double-at-atalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/rare-gecko-tour-double-at-atalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Gecko Tour Double at Atalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mariano Galiano won on last season\u2019s The Gecko Tour while still an amateur \u2013 and now he has achieved the feat as a newly minted professional. On the same course: Atalaya. It was his first win as a pro, coming just two months after he joined the paid ranks. <\/p>\n

Born and raised in San Mart\u00edn del Tesorillo (at the western end of the Costa del Sol near his home course La Ca\u00f1ada), Galiano enjoyed a spectacular amateur career, with multiple national and international victories and a top position of number three in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

He was in just as stunning form in the sixth event of The Gecko season at Atalaya, carding 130 over the two rounds, closing with a 64 and winning by five from joint runners-up Gonzalo Gancedo and Jamie Dick. Swede Victor Roupe and Canadian Michael Dart finished fourth, and Sam Connor (winner at the Parador earlier in the week), Marbella\u2019s Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez and Englishman Ben Robinson shared sixth. <\/p>\n

\u201cApart from the win, which is always amazing,\u201d said Galiano, \u201cwhat I took home with me was how comfortable I was. I was myself on the course and I know that playing like that I\u2019m able to bring out the best in my game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seventh and eighth Gecko tournaments\u00a0due to be\u00a0held at Alcaidesa\u00a0this week were cancelled due to the heavy rainfall and flooding suffered by the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mariano Galiano won on last season\u2019s The Gecko Tour while still an amateur \u2013 and now he has achieved the feat as a newly minted professional. On the same course: Atalaya. It was his first win as a pro, coming just two months after he joined the paid ranks. Born and raised in San Mart\u00edn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21611","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\/21611","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=21611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}