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Last Sunday, children from all over Andalusia came to our club to participate in the Junior & bENJAMIN Circuit of the RFGA in our North Course and, of course, they performed spectacular results. 9 children managed to play at par or under par!. What a level!

On this occasion the visitors have shined with their own light, obtaining all the scratch prizes. Even so, our boys & grils have had nice performances:

Samuel Ramirez: 1st Handicap Infantil

Javier Rodríguez del Molino: 1st Handicap Alevín

Rebeca Fernandez: Sub-campeona Scratch Infantil

Alvaro Mueller-Baumgart: Sub-campeón Scratch Cadete

Congratulations to all!

More information about the tournament, at RFGA website.

Results “Benjamines”, here

Results “Juveniles”, here

See you this Saturday November 3rd for the Monthly School Competition, qualifier for the Junior Match Play Cup.

pd: attached you will find some pictures.

It was a month of October full of very special days, but 3 of them deserve a singular mention.

The Captain's, in which the captains of the male and female section organized a fantastic day on October 13th, with a mixed fourball in the South Course, including gala dinner (prepared with great care by Dantonelas Group). An opera singer culminated the celebration with a brilliant performance. The victory was for the couple formed by Pedro Ángel Alonso and Begoña Urcelay.

The Spanish team was the winner of the historic Nations Cup, and Marguerite Jordan (2017 captain) won the 18th edition of the Cup of the past Captains.

Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and, of course, to all the members that participated, because thanks to you these emblematic Cups are still celebrated year after year. Members: You are Guadalmina!

The young professional Laura Gómez, member of Guadalmina since 7 years old, wins the 8th tournament of 2018 Santander Ladies Tour after 3 holes of play off.

The experts say that the first victory always costs more, and how could it be otherwise, for Laura has not been an exception.

Thanks to a very solid first round of 70 strokes (-2) and a start of the 2nd brilliant, Laura was dominating throughout the day. She came to par 5 of 18 with a shot ahead of her closest pursuer, Rochelle Morris, and after committing three putts to finish, it was necessary to go out to the play off. And after 3 holes of maximum emotion, Laura took the coveted title.

Our most sincere congratulations on behalf of the entire team of the Real Club de Golf Guadalmina. We are very proud. More wins are coming!

Check the final results here.

Laura is placed 4th in the ranking of the Santander Tour. Next stop, Norba Golf (Cáceres).

Golf Club Bogogno has once again hosted the first section of the European Tour Q School. There was our amateur Ángel Hidalgo, debuting in the fearsome school. It began as a rocket with rounds of 65 (-7) and 65 and leading its section in its equator. "I was already hitting the ball pretty well few days ago, and the proof is that I failed only one green in the first 36 holes," said Ángel.

Things got a little tricky when Angel delivered a 75 shot card (+3) on the 3rd day. It had only 4 shots of margin with respect to the virtual cut (the first 24 gonna reach the 2nd stage) and "the nerves appeared, but luckily I started strong on the 4th day with 3 birdies in 5 holes".

In the end, 65-65-75-69 were enough to finish in a comfortable way in the Top 24 (finished tied 7th). Goal accomplished.

The next stage of the q school is played in Spain, simultaneously and by lottery, in Desert Springs, Alenda Golf, Panoramica and Las Colinas, from November 2nd to 5th. Hidalgo has not planned to play any competition to date. Training, training and training!

Congratulations!! Good luck and let's go to the final!

Last week we told you in this news that Ángel Hidalgo was going to represent Spain in what was probably going to be his last big amateur tournament. And how do the big guys say goodbye? Like a champions.

The Andalusian Ángel Hidalgo and Víctor Pastor and Alejandro del Rey from Madrid have achieved bronze in the World Teams Championship with a cumulative of -36, just 3 shots behind Denmark and 2 behind the US. It is the 4th Spanish team in the history of this competition that enters the medal table, after the bronzes of 1996 and 2014 and the silver of 2004.

Although Angel has contributed very much in the 3rd place of Spain with rounds of PAR, -3, -6 and 1 under par, the big star was Alejandro del rey with a spectacular result of -23, thus achieving the individual victory.

If you want to know how the boys felt after the day, watch this video.

We do not forget the great week of Álvaro Mueller-Baumgart (5th) in the Spanish International Under 18 held in La Cañada, the 7th position of Azahara Muñoz in the French Open and the Top 20 achieved by Noemi Jiménez also in France.

Results World Team Championship

Results Spanish International Under 18

Results French Open

Neither Chronos, the Greek God of weather, could avoid the 5th consecutive victory of Real Club de Golf in the Interclub Championship of Andalusian "Infantil" and "Cadete".

Baviera Golf and the weather (it had to be suspended the 1st day due to storm) were witnesses of the 10th title of Guadalmina in the history of this competition. What an amazing feat.

The A team of the Real Club de Golf Guadalmina, formed by Alejandra Sanchez de la Fuente, Nicolás Barclay, Pablo Hidalgo and Marc Waller, with an accumulated of 149 shots, claimed the victory with 9 shots of advantage over his closest rival, also a team from the School (Jonah Fernandes, Mateo Ruiz, Alberto Sanchez de la Fuente and Rebeca Fernandez).

In addition, Jonah and Mateo carded the best round of the tournament (72).

Congratulations guys, we are very proud of all of you.

Many thanks to the Royal Andalusian Golf Federation for organizing for the 18th time this competition, one of the funniest of the annual calendar, to the parents for your unconditional support, to Baviera Golf for being the perfect host and, of course, to all the boys and girls who participated, you are a trully example for the rest of old players.

Check the final results, here.

Chronologically, our first asset of the week was Laura Gómez, who played in the Real de Sevilla the Doubles of the Santander Golf Tour and things have not gone badly: 3rd along with also Andalusian Sara Navarro.

Angel Hidalgo's turn; today the World Team Amateur Championship has started, and Spain has a very competitive team (Victor Pastor, Alejandro del Rey and Angel). For the moment, 7th with 6 under par. Livescoring, here.

Azahara Muñoz and Noemi Jiménez will be in Bordeaux for the Lacoste Ladies Open of France, a tournament that brings back good memories to Aza (champion in 2013 and 2014). From September 6 to 9. Livescoring, here.

Also from tomorrow until September 9th, Haiko Dana will be competing in the Bridgestone Challenge, tournament corresponding to the Challenge Tour. In this link you can follow the livescoring.

The XXXI Spanish Championship of the PGA travels to Burgos (Rio Cerezo Golf). The Osorio brothers (Dani and Juan Carlos), will be in contention. These are the tee times.

And among the youngest, on the one hand we have 4 teams from the Academy that travel to Baviera for the Interclubes "Infantil" and "Cadete" Andalusian Championship. Then, Álvaro Mueller-Baumgart and Alejandro J. Chacón in La Cañada, for the International Championship of Spain Under 18.

Good luck, friends.

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The 3rd Sports Recognition of San Pedro Alcántara took place last thursday in the auditorium of San Pedro's Bulevar. The event was attended by the deputy mayor, Rafael Piña; the delegate councilor of Sports, Javier Mérida; the Treasury, Manuel Osorio; Employment, Cristóbal Garre, and other members of the corporation.

In total there were 39 recognitions to sport delivered in both individual and collective category, distinguishing between recognitions for achievements of the 2017/2018 season and for sporting career. Our golfers Ángel Hidalgo and Noemí Jiménez were two of the most successful. Angel has once again conquered the Absolute Spain Championship and the Andalusia Cup, while Noemi premiered her international palmares, conquering the LETAS VP Bank Ladies Open and a tournament of the Andalusian professional circuit.

Both are playing important tournaments this week; Noemi has the Lacoste Ladies French Open (tournament corresponding to the Ladies European Tour), where she will coincide with the also sampedreña Azahara Muñoz, winner in 2013 and 2014 when the French Open was played in Chantaco. And Angel will be in Ireland for the dispute of his last Men's World Amateur Team Championship.

Let the successes continue!

Alejandra Sanchez de la Fuente has been the big winner in the Spanish Championship Under 16 Pitch & Putt REALE held in Malaga (BilBil Golf) with the participation of a large number of young golfers, a tournament plenty of emotion and a very good level of game shown during the two days of competition.

After the first day five players were leaders with 53 shots. Two of them, Rebeca Fernández and Alejandra Sánchez de la Fuente from our club. In the end, Alejandra, with a second round of 49, ended the debate with 102 strokes and two advantage over the players Isabel Mas and Andrea Revuelta.

Rebeca achieved an excellent 2nd place in "Infantil" category and a Top 7 in the absolute category.

To the success of the club, the young "alevín" Lucía Morales (6th), as well as Daniel de la Serna (3rd), Samuel Love (4th) and Aitor López (10th) among the male "Benjamines" and Valeria Ramírez (6th) among the Female "Benjamines"

In addition, in the Spanish Interclubs Championship "infantil" sponsored by Reale Seguros, the Real Club de Golf Guadalmina team formed by Rebeca Fernández, Lucía Morales, Marc Waller and Pablo Hidalgo fought until the last moment for the 2nd place, finally being in 4th place , 1 shot behind the third (La Cañada) and 2 of the seconds (La Dehesa). La Herreria won easily.

Congratulations, Alejandra!

All information on the RFEG website

2 days after the Golfing Week and having digested what has been lived this week, it is time to take stock.

It has been an intense and exciting week, marked by the great participation of our members in the different competitions.

The commitment that the Competition Committee acquired last year after seeing that many days exceeded 5 hours of play, was to reduce the limit of participants per tournament. And so it has been done. On Monday, on the Ping Trophy 208 people played (instead of 225 last year), on Tuesday at the Alvear - Belloterra another 208, on Wednesday (Reale) we stayed at the doors of 200 (199) and on Thursday at Le Club 142 players tried to get tickets for the national final at Fairplay Golf Resort. And even so, at some time of the week, the pace of play went out of hand and the 5 hours were exceeded.

On Thursday we proceeded to celebrate the prize giving presentation of the aforementioned tournaments and up to 250 members joined us during the night. We suspect that the spectacular assortment of "jamones" and "paletas" for the draw was largely to blame.

And as a final culmination we had the team tournament, this year sponsored by Movistar. 32 teams, 36 holes and up to the first 10 were awarded. The team formed by Lina López, Lourdes Gómez and Juan Miguel and Ana Belén Morales achieved the victory (by 10 shots!). See the spectacular results here.

The management of the club and the Competition Committee greatly appreciate your participation, patience and commitment during these days. Thanks also, of course, to all the Caddy Master staff for their good work, to the Restaurant, and, above all, to the sponsors of each of the tournaments for trusting Guadalmina.

Until next year!

The Golfing Week, in photos, here below.