LQDVI Foundation<\/a> projects. In this interview he talks about the sport he is passionate about. <\/p>\nQuestions to Fernando Vega, his words<\/h3>\n1\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega<\/h6>\n
\u2013 How did your love for golf start and how long have you been playing golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2013 My love for golf is very genetic<\/strong>. In my family, we have always played golf. One of the first gifts we used to get for Epiphany, when we were very little, was a bag of clubs. As we were members of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, all the cousins had<\/strong> a plan there that was the bomb. We were released in the morning with a field hockey stick, some golf clubs, a bathing suit and a sandwich and we would spend the whole day<\/strong> in the field. <\/p>\n2\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega<\/h6>\n
\u2013 What does golf represent to you? A hobby? An opportunity to spend time with friends and make new ones? A way to compete against yourself and other players? An excuse to schedule a getaway, travel and discover places, courses and tournaments you didn\u2019t know about? <\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2013 For me, golf represents<\/strong>, exactly, a sum of everything described in the question, but with a little nuance<\/strong>. Since I broke my back, I am determined<\/strong> to become the best<\/strong> wheelchair golfer in the world. It\u2019s a super<\/strong> personal challenge. I used to be a very good golfer and even became 3 times champion of Spain<\/strong>, but I could never have aspired to be the best in the world. Now, however, with this new situation, I have clear aspirations<\/strong> and a huge determination to achieve it. <\/p>\n3\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega<\/h6>\n
\u2013 How has golf helped you to continue practicing, after the accident, something as essential in your life as sport? Has it played an important role in helping you adapt to the changes? <\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2013 With the extent of my spinal cord injury, which greatly reduces my mobility, I never<\/strong> thought golf would even<\/strong> be a possibility.<\/strong> But, by finding a paragolfer, the chair that allows me to play, it all comes down to a matter of adapting the biomechanics. In the end, it\u2019s all about getting the ball in the hole<\/strong> with as few shots as possible, so anything goes. If we\u2019ve seen Seve hit it on his knees under a tree, someone like me has to be able to do it too<\/strong>. <\/p>\n4\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega<\/h6>\n
\u2013 What does it take to become a Spanish Adapted Golf Champion? What separates you right now from reaching your goal of becoming the best in the world? <\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2013 In the whole process to become the best paragolfer<\/strong> in the world, in fact, in 2024 I won the Spanish championship of adapted golf played in Alicante. The goal for 2025 is to win the US Open, which is held in July in Washington, the European Championship in Sweden in August, and all the tournaments of the Spanish circuit that are within reach. Today, I think that what separates me from my goal is, fundamentally<\/strong>, to keep practicing. After 2 years playing, what I need now is to maintain the constancy<\/strong> that allows me to go little by little more robustness with which to perfect<\/strong> the biomechanics and not make mistakes. But I see it close. <\/p>\n5\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega<\/h6>\n
\u2013 What values can be instilled in young people through sport and, specifically, through golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2013 I would say that golf is the sport of personal<\/strong> and individual improvement<\/strong> par excellence. Think that you are playing alone in an open course where you can only rely on your own abilities. It\u2019s like playing against a mirror that confronts you over and over again. This makes golf very hard<\/strong> and, in many occasions, not very rewarding. But, when you are able to recognize and accept<\/strong> that golf, like yourself, is an imperfect game, the next step is to try to be the best version of yourself. This is, in my view, what golf should inspire us<\/strong>. <\/p>\nIf you want to see more articles of interest visit our Interviews<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Vega, wheelchair golfer determined to be the best Fernando Vega de Seoane, with an exciting life story, is one of the special sponsors who often participates in LQDVI Foundation projects. In this interview he talks about the sport he is passionate about. Questions to Fernando Vega, his words 1\u00ba Ask Fernando Vega \u2013 How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[388,402,389],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-fernando-en","tag-magazine-no-276","tag-vega-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}