{"id":22029,"date":"2018-01-31T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/spain-hosts-this-year-tournaments-of-the-main-european-circuits\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:19:07","slug":"spain-hosts-this-year-tournaments-of-the-main-european-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/spain-hosts-this-year-tournaments-of-the-main-european-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain hosts this year tournaments of the main European circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spain will host this year tournaments of the four main European professional golf circuits <\/span> <\/span> , although some of the dates and venues have not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n

European Tour<\/strong>: The Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters returns to Sotogrande from October 18 to 21, after Sergio Garc\u00eda’s victory last year and Jon Rahm’s professional debut in Spain, where he missed the cut <\/span>, although he later redeemed himself with victory in the <\/span>tournament that ended the European season: <\/span>the Dubai World Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

There is also a free date <\/span>on the European Tour calendar, April 12-15 (one week after the U.S. Masters), <\/span>with speculation in the Spanish press that the Open de Espa\u00f1a (which <\/span>se <\/span>did not play last season) could return at a club in Madrid, possibly the RACE.<\/p>\n

Ladies European Tour<\/strong>: Founded <\/span>four decades ago, in 1978, this women’s circuit was <\/span>has struggled in recent seasons to provide a complete schedule and financial endowments <\/span>minimally relevant, but, according to LET CEO Mark Lichtenhein, <\/span>this circuit hopes to take advantage of a “significant tailwind that is driving women in the sport at the moment.” Last week <\/span>said <\/span>that “as things stand, we are on the verge of confirming two more European tournaments. <\/span>Our <\/span>target of having 20 tournaments this year compared to 15 in the previous year. <\/span>past. In other words, things are getting better.” <\/p>\n

No tournaments have been officially announced <\/span>after the three Australian <\/span>with which the season starts, plus the <\/span>in South Africa and Morocco in March and April, respectively, but presumably one of the 20 planned will be the <\/span>Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino, which was played <\/span>in Marbella the <\/span>last two seasons, and was won on both occasions by local star Azahara Mu\u00f1oz.<\/p>\n

European Challenge Tour<\/strong>: <\/span>In what has been baptized by this circuit <\/span>as the first “Iberian Swing”, the Spanish Challenge will be held at Izki Golf, \u00c1lava. <\/span>from May 3-6, followed by the Portuguese Open ( May 10-13 at Morgado, Portim\u00e3o, Algarve) and the Andaluc\u00eda-Costa del Sol Match Play 9 (May 17-20), which played at La Cala Resort (Mijas) in 2017, but still does not have an officially confirmed venue for this year.<\/p>\n

Staysure Tour (European Senior)<\/strong>: The Meli\u00e3 Villaitana Golf Club, in Alicante, will host the first edition of the <\/span>Costa Blanca Benidorm Senior Masters from November 29th to December 1st. UK-based insurer Staysure is the title sponsor of the senior circuit. <\/span>of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spain will host this year tournaments of the four main European professional golf circuits , although some of the dates and venues have not yet been confirmed. European Tour: The Andaluc\u00eda Valderrama Masters returns to Sotogrande from October 18 to 21, after Sergio Garc\u00eda’s victory last year and Jon Rahm’s professional debut in Spain, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22029","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\/22029","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=22029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}