Canarian Weekly
14-09-2012, 11:40
Golf Las Americas selected to*host the Ladies Spanish Open THE cream of women’s golf in Europe will congregate at Golf Las Americas in the next few days for the Ladies Spanish Open, which starts on Thursday. It will be Tenerife’s 11th consecutive year of hosting the event, which forms part of the Ladies European Tour.
What an accolade for the Island because it is the only Ladies Tour event to be played inSpainthis year.
And what a treat it will be for the players to have the sun on their backs after competing in the British Open in chilly, breezyLiverpoolthis week.
All the leading stars, bidding for a share of the 350,000-euro prize fund, will be among the 126 Order of Merit contenders.
They include No1 seed Carly Booth, fromScotland,Germany’s No2 Caroline Masson andSpain’s third-seeded Carlota Ciganda.
The Tenerife Open Matchplay event was also played at Golf Las Americas last year, when Becky Brewerton fired a four-under-par 68 to win the Tenerife Ladies Match Play event on the same course.
The 28-year-oldNorth Walesplayer, from Abergele, played superbly to withstand the challenge of Australian Nikki Garrett and win by a single shot.
LasAmericasalso hosted the Tenerife Open in 2003 and, as usual, this year’s event will be televised live aroundEurope.
For the Royal Spanish Golf Federation to chooseTenerifeagain for one of their big tournaments speaks volumes for the efforts made last year by Tenerife Tourism and the Canary Islands Government, who sponsored the event jointly.
The intention was to promoteTenerifeas a major golf centre for all-comers and it has paid off.
At last year’s opening ceremony Jose Manuel Bermudez, who was then the Tenerife Tourism Minister said: “The huge media coverage is worth around 25 million euros in terms of economic impact.”
With our economy facing even more desperate times a year on, the new head of Tenerife Tourism, Miguel Santos, will be hoping for at least the same financial return this time.
Tenerife Tourism is again featured prominently as chief sponsor, with the Spanish Federation promoting the event.
The two organisations have reached an agreement in order to maintain the high standards of this tournament, which is regarded and one of most important and rooted in the ladies schedule after all these years.
That is also why the Golf Las Americas course has been selected again. The prestigious course, designed by renowned coach John Jacobs, has been widely acknowledged throughout Europe, and is viewed as the best venue to organise tournaments inSpain. It’s a championship 18 hole par 72 course with an overall length of 6.051 meters (6.617 yards).
The whole show is being run by Deporte & Business, a company which, for the past decade, has had extensive experience of organising professional tournaments, such as the European Nations Cup, theTenerifeLadies Open and this Spanish Open since 2002.
Last year’s Spanish Open, held at the Los Flamingos course inMarbella, was won byEngland’s Melissa Reid, who took the title on the last hole in a thrilling finish.
A year earlier,England’s legendary Laura Davis picked up the title on the same course.
The Spanish Open gets underway on Thursday (20th Sept), proceeded by a pro-am on Wednesday and practice the previous day. The event will finish on the Sunday, followed by a prize-giving ceremony.
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What an accolade for the Island because it is the only Ladies Tour event to be played inSpainthis year.
And what a treat it will be for the players to have the sun on their backs after competing in the British Open in chilly, breezyLiverpoolthis week.
All the leading stars, bidding for a share of the 350,000-euro prize fund, will be among the 126 Order of Merit contenders.
They include No1 seed Carly Booth, fromScotland,Germany’s No2 Caroline Masson andSpain’s third-seeded Carlota Ciganda.
The Tenerife Open Matchplay event was also played at Golf Las Americas last year, when Becky Brewerton fired a four-under-par 68 to win the Tenerife Ladies Match Play event on the same course.
The 28-year-oldNorth Walesplayer, from Abergele, played superbly to withstand the challenge of Australian Nikki Garrett and win by a single shot.
LasAmericasalso hosted the Tenerife Open in 2003 and, as usual, this year’s event will be televised live aroundEurope.
For the Royal Spanish Golf Federation to chooseTenerifeagain for one of their big tournaments speaks volumes for the efforts made last year by Tenerife Tourism and the Canary Islands Government, who sponsored the event jointly.
The intention was to promoteTenerifeas a major golf centre for all-comers and it has paid off.
At last year’s opening ceremony Jose Manuel Bermudez, who was then the Tenerife Tourism Minister said: “The huge media coverage is worth around 25 million euros in terms of economic impact.”
With our economy facing even more desperate times a year on, the new head of Tenerife Tourism, Miguel Santos, will be hoping for at least the same financial return this time.
Tenerife Tourism is again featured prominently as chief sponsor, with the Spanish Federation promoting the event.
The two organisations have reached an agreement in order to maintain the high standards of this tournament, which is regarded and one of most important and rooted in the ladies schedule after all these years.
That is also why the Golf Las Americas course has been selected again. The prestigious course, designed by renowned coach John Jacobs, has been widely acknowledged throughout Europe, and is viewed as the best venue to organise tournaments inSpain. It’s a championship 18 hole par 72 course with an overall length of 6.051 meters (6.617 yards).
The whole show is being run by Deporte & Business, a company which, for the past decade, has had extensive experience of organising professional tournaments, such as the European Nations Cup, theTenerifeLadies Open and this Spanish Open since 2002.
Last year’s Spanish Open, held at the Los Flamingos course inMarbella, was won byEngland’s Melissa Reid, who took the title on the last hole in a thrilling finish.
A year earlier,England’s legendary Laura Davis picked up the title on the same course.
The Spanish Open gets underway on Thursday (20th Sept), proceeded by a pro-am on Wednesday and practice the previous day. The event will finish on the Sunday, followed by a prize-giving ceremony.
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