Cádiz The Real Club de Golf Sotogrande will host a test of the ‘DP World Tour’ circuit for the first time with the dispute from this Thursday to Sunday of the ‘Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters’, where the Spaniards Adrián Otaegui defends the title achieved last year, which in its eighth edition was held at the Real Club Valderrama, also from Cádiz, which is now the home of LIV Golf.
In the municipality of San Roque (Cádiz) in this tournament, valid for the Race to Dubai, The Gipuzkoan will face other well-known Spanish golfers such as Pablo Larrazábal and Adrián Arnaus from Barcelona.the Canary Rafael Cabrera Bello, the Extremaduran Jorge Campillo or the Asturian Alfredo Garcia Heredia.
Among foreign registrations, the American stands out Wyndham Clark, 2023 US Open champion; the new zealand Ryan Fox, winner of the BMW PGA Championship; or Matt Kuchar, a four-time member of the US Ryder Cup team.
The Scotsman will accompany them Robert MacIntyre, double champion on the DP World Tour and debutant at the Ryder Cup recently held in Rome, where he finished undefeated and added 2.5 points in three games.
One of the Spaniards who arrived in better condition was García Heredianinth last week at the Madrid Open and who will be chasing a card for next season in Sotogrande.
The Asturian, in the statements released by the organization, emphasized that the field is “very beautiful” and it is expected that there will be good weather.
“Let’s see if the weather respects”said the golfer, who added that he has “a lot of confidence” to do well on a course he knows and has played “several times” after renovations carried out five years ago.
After these changes, Real Club Sotogrande is more demanding than usual, with narrower fairways, high rough and fast greens to test the team of players.
“This is a course that can be very difficult in the wind,” he warned. Garcia Heredia in a review that the local player participated in Alvaro Quiroswho have known the scenario of this game for years.
“The fairways are narrowed and if they fail, access to the green will be very complicated.” because the rough of the bermuda makes you lose control and that protects the second shots,” explained the winner of the Spanish Open in 2010 and the Dubai tournament in 2011, who will also play in the Estrella Damm Andalucía tournament starting this Thursday. Masters 2023.
The historical Real Club de Golf Sotogrande returns to the forefront of professional golf about to turn sixty years old.
In his career it is worth highlighting the 1987 victory of the Cantabrian Severiano Ballesteros in the Spanish Professional Championship or hosting the 1964 Spanish Open, at the beginning of this course designed by the British Robert Trent Jones and modified between 2015 and 2018 by Roger Rulewich.
Source: La Verdad
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