Golf: The Copa de AndalucÃa Femenina raises the curtain
The new year for Spanish golfers begins strong. It does so with a competition, the Women's Andalusian Cup, which complies with the tradition of bringing together the best Spanish players in their quest for a prestigious victory won by MarÃa Parra or Nuria Iturrios, both professionals today. The Real Golf Club Guadalmina (San Pedro de Alcántara, Malaga) hosts the tournament from 9 to 12 January. This Cup of Andalusia, scoring for the Amateur World Ranking and for the Absolute National Rankings, Girl and Cadet, has summoned 84 players, 28 of them with negative play handicaps. So qualified list of participants is headed by the Almeria Marina Escobar (-3.3) and the Malaga Ana Peláez (-3.3).
The first one comes from a great year, the confirmation, with victory in the Madrid Championship included; the second, lands in his land making an incision in his stage in the United States. Both are candidates to relieve in the palmarés of the competition to the Barcelonan Laura Pasalodos, low this time by injury.
They also aspire to the highest players whose golf is flourishing in an exciting way in recent years, such as Blanca Fernández (-3.2) from Madrid, Valentina Albertazzi (-3.2) from Malaga, Natalia Aseguinolaza from Guipuzcoa (-3) , 2) or Castellón's Carla Bernat (-2.5), who comes to the tournament just a week after signing a more than remarkable performance at the Orange Bowl in Florida.
And together with all of them, the 'Spanish Armada' that integrates assets in full dynamic upward as Clara Moyano (-2.1), Marta Lopez (-2), Dimana Viudes (-2), Maria Teresa Toscano (-1.8) ), Carlota Palacios (-1.7), Carla Tejedo (-1.7), Carolina Lopez-Chacarra (-1.4) or Patricia Garre (-1.4), winner last month of the first scoring of this year , the 'Celia BarquÃn Memorial' Copa Principado de Asturias Femenina.
The tournament is played at 72 holes in the stroke mode (Stroke Play) in four consecutive days, 18 holes each day. At the end of the third day will be established a cut that will pass the first 50 and tied.
The one that was player of the National School Blume Maria Parra is the great dominator of the palmarés of the test in the last years. His victory in 2015 and 2016 was the prelude to two excellent seasons for the professional golfer today.
In 2017, without Cadiz in the field, the triumph corresponded to the Catalan golfer Ivon Reijers, who prevailed after solving in her favor an exciting play off tiebreaker with the Andalusian Carmen Laguna, another of the great protagonists of the week in the field of Atalaya Golf & Country Club, also hosted last year.
And last year the triumph was for the aforementioned Laura Pasalodos, who excelled in a tight final in the field of Atalaya Golf & Country Club (Estepona, Málaga). The Catalan, with her second round under a consecutive pair, ousted from the lead the Galician Marta GarcÃa, in the lead from the first day.
