{"id":22179,"date":"2019-09-09T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/five-winners-of-ix-andalucia-golf-challenge-destination-riviera-maya-golf-club-bahia-principe-circuit\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:03:27","slug":"five-winners-of-ix-andalucia-golf-challenge-destination-riviera-maya-golf-club-bahia-principe-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/five-winners-of-ix-andalucia-golf-challenge-destination-riviera-maya-golf-club-bahia-principe-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Winners of IX Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge Destination Riviera Maya Golf Club Bah\u00eda Pr\u00edncipe Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Juan David Carretero Castillo, Fernando Vega Alonso, Salvador Garc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Rodr\u00edguez and Antonio Javier Garc\u00eda Fr\u00edas are the five well-deserved and lucky winners of five trips to the Mexican Caribbean that were settled in the grand finale of the Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge Destination Riviera Maya Golf Club Bah\u00eda Pr\u00edncipe. The magnificent Alferini course, at Villa Padierna Golf Club on the Costa del Sol, was the venue for the competition, with more than 100 players taking part: the top five in each category plus the scratch winner of each of the 10 tournaments that this year made up the ninth edition of the popular amateur circuit organized by Andaluc\u00eda Golf\/Espa\u00f1a Golf magazine. <\/p>\n

First category winner Juan David Carretero was actually one of the five winning players on last year’s circuit, and he enjoyed a superb trip to the Dominican Republic, staying at La Romana Golf Club Bah\u00eda Prince and playing at that course as well as Dientes de Perro<\/span> and Punta Espada.<\/p>\n

This year, the five winners of the finals prize will travel to the Riviera Maya on 27 October, stay for an all-inclusive week at the five-star hotel Sian Ka’an at Bahia Principe Riviera Maya Resort and play golf at three exceptional courses: Riviera Maya Golf Club, El Camale\u00f3n Mayakoba and Playa Para\u00edso.<\/p>\n

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Juan David Carretero won the category one prize with a score of 42 points, two more than second-classified Fernando Vega. In the second category Salvador Garc\u00eda won with 41 points and second, with 39 points, was Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez, who finished with the same score as three other players but had the lower handicap. The scratch winner was Antonio Javier Garc\u00eda, who totalled 31 points, one more than Carretero. <\/span><\/p>\n

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One vignette of the tournament starred Alberto Luis Alfonso \u00c1lvarez, who could have won one of the trips to Riviera Maya (he had totalled 39 points and had a better handicap than Salvador Garc\u00eda in category two) but was deprived of the prize because he played the wrong ball without realising it at one point in the round, and called the penalty on himself. In recognition of his fine sportsmanship, Alberto received a warm ovation from all those attending the gala dinner which, held in the magnificent D-Wine Restaurant in Marbella, added the finishing touch to this ninth edition of the Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge Circuit. <\/p>\n

Another interesting side story involved Diego Hidalgo, who was to be married that same afternoon, at six o’clock, rain out of time, and was forced to withdraw from the tournament before concluding his round. One other player also had to deal with an extremely important issue outside the competition: Joaqu\u00edn Obispo was waiting for a possible phone call to tell him his daughter had made him a grandfather. <\/p>\n

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Gala Dinner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around 150 people enjoyed the gala dinner, enlivened by a group of Mariachis in honor of the country hosting the winners of the IX Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge. D-Wine, located between Puerto Ban\u00fas and San Pedro Alc\u00e1ntara, has one of the largest restaurant selections of different international wines. In fact, it has received an award from Wine Spectator for having “one of the most spectacular restaurant wine lists in the world”, and has also been awarded the jury prize for “The World’s Best Wine Lists” from The World of Fine Wine. Its cuisine stands out for the high quality of the ingredients and the meticulous preparation of the dishes. For example… the exquisite meat served at dinner required six hours of low-temperature baking. <\/p>\n

The awards ceremony for the 2019 circuit, presided over by Andaluc\u00eda Golf’s Luis Navarro and Antonio S\u00e1nchez, was attended by sponsors and collaborators including Elena Cuberos, from real estate developer Exxacon; Javier P\u00e9rez Xim\u00e9nez, of Reale-Galpe Seguros; Stefan Tjellander, from Holiday Golf Group; and Gabriella Jones, of fairway+blue. Exaccon, one of the three main sponsors of the IX Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge, together with Bah\u00eda Pr\u00edncipe and Reale-Galpe Seguros, held a special draw (with the prize a weekend in a European city) among players participating in the Circuit who had previously registered for the raffle. There was also another raffle among all the finalists, with prizes including Ecco shoes, Ofelia T bags and vouchers valued at \u20ac100 euros for the fairway+blue boutique in Puerto Ban\u00fas. <\/p>\n

The five overall winners were delighted with their prizes, and highlighted the excellent organization and atmosphere prevailing at the tournaments where they had teed up. All of them expressed an interest in participating in the 10th edition of the Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge in 2020, when the grand final prize will once again be a trip to an idyllic world-famous golf destination. <\/p>\n

This year the circuit was played at 10 of Spain’s finest courses. It started at Golf Santander (Madrid) and continued at Royal Guadalhorce, Los Lagos (Mijas Golf), Santa Clara Marbella, Royal Sotogrande, Royal Valderrama, San Roque Old Course, Valle Romano, Flamingos and La Reserva Club Sotogrande, plus the final at Alferini. <\/p>\n

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Juan David Carretero Castillo, Fernando Vega Alonso, Salvador Garc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Rodr\u00edguez and Antonio Javier Garc\u00eda Fr\u00edas are the five well-deserved and lucky winners of five trips to the Mexican Caribbean that were settled in the grand finale of the Andaluc\u00eda Golf Challenge Destination Riviera Maya Golf Club Bah\u00eda Pr\u00edncipe. The magnificent Alferini […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10127,"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-22179","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\/22179","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=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}