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Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez has lost \u20ac2 million as promoter and organiser of the four last Open de Andaluc\u00eda tournaments \u2013 an official event on the European Tour. In the 2012 edition alone, the famous M\u00e1laga golfer reported losses of \u20ac700,000. <\/span><\/p>\n The Churriana-born star was speaking during a meeting with the press at his eponymous golf academy in Torremolinos. He said he had neither made nor lost money on the first two editions but added that, without support from sponsors, he would not be organizing another Open de Andaluc\u00eda. \u201cI can\u2019t do it any more. I can\u2019t squander my whole life, my whole career, when no one else is around to take up the baton.\u201d <\/p>\n Referring to his skiing accident in Sierra Nevada last Christmas, and his convalescence and recovery after a knee operation, he said he expected to be 100 per cent for the PGA Championship at Wentworth from 23 to 26 May.<\/p>\n Jimenez conceded that he still had to work hard to regain muscle strength and be at 100 per to return to competition. \u201cI feel good, and they (the balls) are going fairly straight, even though I\u2019ve lost 10 per cent in distance with the woods. With the irons it remains the same, and as always with the short shots. The problem is that I still don\u2019t feel 100 per cent stable on my right leg, I\u2019m lacking a bit of muscle strength in the quadriceps, and I need to harden the knee muscles a little.\u201d <\/p>\n Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s forced absence from competition so far this year hasn\u2019t affected his mental state, he stresses. \u201cPsychologically, I\u2019m perfect. I always try to see the bottle half full rather than half empty. Every cloud has a silver lining and, for example, thanks to the injury I\u2019ve been able to unblock several things I couldn\u2019t do before because of lack of time and which are now up and running \u2013 such as the (Torremolinos) academy.\u201d <\/p>\n He has lost his position on the world rankings (dropping from 53rd to 83rd over the past four months). \u201cNow I\u2019ve got to start competing and playing well to climb back up again.\u201d He hasn\u2019t set any goal for the end of the season as far as his ranking is concerned. \u201cMy objective, from May, when I hope to be 100 per cent, is to go out and try to win, which is the best motivation.\u201d <\/p>\n As for the majors, the now 49-year-old who holds the record as the oldest winner on the European Tour (last November\u2019s Hong Kong Open) is focused on two in particular. \u201cFor the US Open, I\u2019m not going to compete in a two-round pre-qualifier; I\u2019m exempt for the British Open; we all know the Masters wasn\u2019t possible; and I\u2019ll try to be among the top 100 (in the world ranking) who qualify for the US PGA Championship.\u201d <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21697","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\/21697","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=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}