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<\/p>\nGolf and haute cuisine merge in the kitchens and renowned courses of Andalusia. Chefs passionate about golf and golfers fond of good food regularly share a game and a table in the south of Spain. <\/p>\n
\u201cGolf and cooking have many things in common. Small details like a bad arm movement in golf and two more minutes in the oven in the kitchen can radically change the golf or the dish\u201d, explains chef Dani Garc\u00eda, recent discoverer of the peace that comes with practicing golf \u201cno matter how many strokes you make\u201d.<\/p>\n
The chef from Malaga, with restaurants all over the world, has a special memory of attending the 2022 Masters, the year of the victory of the Spaniard Jon Rahm. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I experienced at Augusta National far surpasses anything you can imagine,\u201d said Garcia before sitting down to lunch at Real Club de Golf Sotogrande during the final day of the Estrella Damm N.A. Masters de Andalucia on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are surely in the golf club where the best food in Europe and it is not easy to find a chef as good as Mikel Landa,\u201d adds Dani Garcia about the director of hospitality at the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1999, the director and president of the club came north looking for a head chef. A year and six months of trial turned into 25 years at the club, married and with children,\u201d says the chef from Zum\u00e1rraga, who has developed most of his gastronomic career in Sotogrande after spending time in France and \u201ctouching a few Michelin stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although he has played very little, Mikel Landa is a great fan of golf and especially of the professional golfers who have enjoyed his food, from the American Matt Kuchar to the young David Puig, whom he accompanied during the last British Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a very good relationship and he made a delicious tortilla de patatas every morning. It was a great experience,\u201d recalls Puig, who finished twelfth at the Estrella Damm N.A. Andaluc\u00eda Masters.<\/p>\n
Like Landa, Belgian-born Andalusian Albert Croquet, owner of Asador El Gaucho in Sotogrande, has served and fed the world\u2019s best golfers at his restaurant since 1985.<\/p>\n
When Tiger Woods won the American Express World Golf Championship at Real Club de Golf de Valderrama in 1999, after an epic playoff against Andalusian Miguel Angel Jimenez, he celebrated at El Gaucho.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I took his order, he asked me for a sirloin for a starter and a sirloin for a main course,\u201d he recalls of the American star\u2019s visit. \u201cAs a golfer I\u2019m not very good, although I like to compete rather than play among friends,\u201d Croquet points out. <\/p>\n
The junior golf competitions and school at La Ca\u00f1ada Club de Golf de Sotogrande propelled Luc\u00eda Mart\u00edn and Mar Garc\u00eda, the daughters of the partners of El Trasmallo de Agustino Restaurant, to high-level college golf in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all play golf and we love golf,\u201d says Antonio Mart\u00edn about his family and the Trasmallo staff, uniformed in golf pants and polo shirts. \u201cWe\u2019ve had the restaurant since 2006 and we always have professional players and the occasional celebrity come to see us,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n
Antonio Mart\u00edn and his partner, Armando Garc\u00eda, have lived through the heyday of major golf events in the area, such as the 1997 Ryder Cup at Real Club Valderrama and the 2023 Solheim Cup at Finca Cortes\u00edn, where the promising young chef Luis Olarra, the chef of the REI Restaurant, fed both Europeans and Americans.<\/p>\n
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In the 2024 Solheim Cup at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia, United States, another famous Spanish chef married to a woman from Algeciras and regular visitor to the golf courses of Andalusia, Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, shared the celebrations on the tee with former President Obama and golfer Carlota Ciganda.<\/p>\n
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andaluc\u00eda Masters, a DP World Tour tournament valid for the Race to Dubai that is held thanks to the essential collaboration of the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, is sponsored by Estrella Damm and the Junta de Andaluc\u00eda, in addition to being co-financed with European funds and having been declared an event of exceptional public interest by the Government of Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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